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Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari
6.2 / 10• 2017• 1h 50m•NR• English
Documentary
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Walter Day
Self
LeadNB
Nolan Bushnell
Self
MG
Manny Gerard
Self
RK
Ray Kassar
Self
AA
Al Alcorn
Self
Ralph H. Baer
Self
JD
Joe Decuir
Self
DC
David Crane
Self
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Tomaso Walliser's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
