This should happen again.
Too bad we are digital age now, so what would be the modern equivalent to this?
What, making terrible games and burying them in landfills? Most of what has come out in the past ten years amounts to crap, so I suppose the modern day equivalent is merely looking at any digital distributors best sellers list. Or anything made by EA or Ubisoft, for that matter.
At least these days bad games don't have to rape the landscape as ET once did.