You would think that 1980s Americans would at least be grateful to those who gave us video games.
Given that the Japanese revitalized the American video game market after American companies blew all their goodwill making countless nearly-identical consoles and ridiculous abominations like E.T., Custer's Revenge, and the Atari 2600 adaptation of Pac-Man, I imagine there was a fair bit of resentment there just as there was over the automotive industry.
Not only did they make such ridiculous abominations, but after realizing those didn't sell at all, they had the galaxy brain idea to bury the physical copies in an Alamogordo dump.