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Atari: Game Over

PG-13
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2014
1h 6m
English
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The Xbox Originals documentary that chronicles the fall of the Atari Corporation through the lens of one of the biggest mysteries of all time, dubbed “The Great Video Game Burial of 1983.” Rumor claims that millions of returned and unsold E.T. cartridges were buried in the desert, but what really happened there?
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Cast

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Nolan Bushnell
Howard Scott Warshaw
Manny Gerard
Joe Lewandowski
Paul Sanchez
Ernest Cline
Seamus Blackley
Raiford Guins
Mike Mika
Andrew Reinhard
Directed By: Zak Penn
Written By: Zak Penn

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jacfalcon says...
10 years ago
Interesting info for any fan of gaming history. Annoying as hell interviewer.
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The Ace Face says...
9 months ago
Rather than concentrating on an epic story of the emergence of Atari, it relies on telling a ridiculous story about one crap game that emerged years later and was returned by most consumers. The second half of the film is about a group of nerds with so much time on their hands, they’re digging up a landfill, looking for 80’s waste, lol. The creator of the game is so full of himself, it makes you want to switch off. Real annoying! It could have been so much better concentrating on Atari, rather than a bunch of geeks looking for some worthless game!
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TKPNPodcast says...
5 years ago
This is the story of the much maligned ET game for the Atari 2600 and the urban legend regarding its disposal in a desert landfill. This is a great hook to tell the tale of the game, the incredible programmer that made this game in 5 weeks and created classics like Yars Revenge and Raiders of the Lost Ark, the fall of the Atari 2600 era of video games, and good old fashioned fandom. It's a fun flick clocking in at 68 minutes. Worth a viewing. 7/10
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Roth says...
9 years ago
I couldn't go back to sleep so I turned on the TV and saw this on SHOWTIME Beyond channel on a Sunday morning 6AM. I did not know that E.T. the Atari video game was made in 5 weeks. In today's standards, that's pretty much an indie game jam session. There definitely are some better, more interesting, video game-related documentaries out there though.
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