Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari
20171h 50m6.2
Documentary
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genre
- Documentary
- Origin
- United States of America
About
Before Google, Yahoo and even Apple, before the Silicon Valley cliché of informal dress code, skateboards running the corridors and wild creativity became commonplace, one company embodied the digital economy lifestyle and business style: the one firm coming out of the Age of Aquarius was Atari. The story of Atari is two-thirds the story of Nolan Bushnell, founder and visionary, and one-third the first and probably biggest boom and bust of the new economy some 20 years before the new economy even existed. Atari was showing that technology is cool, way before the personal computer revolution took place and they were reaching out to an ever-growing audience with something that is still cool today: video games. Atari literally introduced the digital world to the mass consciousness.
Where to watch
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Details
- Director
- Tomaso Walliser, Davide E. Agosta
- Writing
- Tomaso Walliser
- Status
- Released
- Released
- Feb 1, 2017
- Studio
- Junk Food Films
Cast
Walter Day
Self
Nolan Bushnell
Self
Manny Gerard
Self
Ray Kassar
Self
Al Alcorn
Self
Ralph H. Baer
Self
Joe Decuir
Self
David Crane
Self
Howard Scott Warshaw
Self
Dennis Koble
Self
Ed Rotberg
Self
Dave Rolfe
Self
Steve Russel
Self
Chuck Peddle
Self
Steve Wozniak
Self
Eugene Jarvis
Self
Steven Kent
Self
Chris Kohler
Self
Minoru Arakawa
Self
Bil Herd
Narrator
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