Atari: Game Over

USA, 2014, 66 min

Directed by:

Zak Penn

Cinematography:

Eric Zimmerman

Composer:

Stephen Endelman

Cast:

Zak Penn (narrator), Harrison Ford (a.f.), Steven Spielberg (a.f.), James Rolfe (a.f.), Ernest Cline, George R.R. Martin
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Atari: Game Over is 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." As the story goes, the Atari Corporation, faced with an overwhelmingly negative response to "E.T.," the video game for the Atari 2600, disposed of hundreds of thousands of unsold game cartridges by burying them in the small town of Alamogordo, New Mexico. (official distributor synopsis)

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