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2014

Atari: Game Over

Directed by Zak Penn
Truth is stranger than legend...

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?

Duration

1h 6m

Released

November 19, 2014

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Cast12

  • Nolan Bushnell
  • Howard Scott Warshaw
  • Manny Gerard
  • Joe Lewandowski
  • Paul Sanchez
  • Ernest Cline
  • Seamus Blackley
  • Raiford Guins
  • Mike Mika

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