Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari (2017)
Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari (2017)
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.

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Walter Day Walter Day As: Self
Nolan Bushnell Nolan Bushnell As: Self
Manny Gerard Manny Gerard As: Self
Ray Kassar Ray Kassar As: Self
Al Alcorn Al Alcorn As: Self
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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.


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Genres: Documentary

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Release Date: 01 February 2017

Country: US

Runtime: 110m

Company Credits

Company: Junk Food Films

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Writing Credits

Tomaso Walliser

Tomaso Walliser

Writer

Bruno Grampa

Bruno Grampa

Script Consultant

Production Crew

Cecilia Botta

Cecilia Botta

Researcher

Davide Briani

Davide Briani

Researcher

Tomaso Walliser

Tomaso Walliser

Executive Producer

Bruno Grampa

Bruno Grampa

Executive Producer

Mark Pilgrim

Mark Pilgrim

Executive Producer

Jeri Ellsworth

Jeri Ellsworth

Executive Producer

Lorenzo Faggi

Lorenzo Faggi

Producer

Mario Albertini

Mario Albertini

Production Designer

Kent Newman

Kent Newman

Line Producer

Tsia Moses

Tsia Moses

Line Producer

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Sound

Bil Herd

Bil Herd

Vocals

Hugh Griffiths

Hugh Griffiths

Sound Engineer

Dale Cowdin

Dale Cowdin

Sound Engineer

P.I.G.

P.I.G.

Sound Mixer

P.I.G.

P.I.G.

Sound

Zoe Blade

Zoe Blade

Sound

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Emilio Colombo

Emilio Colombo

Director of Photography

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Art Department

Tom Navarone

Tom Navarone

Art Direction

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