Should you watch Atari: Game Over?
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Atari: Game Over
Documentary · 2014
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?
The sides of Atari: Game Over
- A landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico
- E.T. game cartridges said to be buried
- The designer who made the E.T. game
Atari: Game Over is good for you if…
- you want to know if the buried E.T. cartridges were real.
- you want to hear Howard Scott Warshaw, who designed the E.T. game in a few weeks.
- you like the rise and fall of Atari in the early 1980s.
Atari: Game Over is bad for you if…
- you need high stakes, and this is a dig for old games.
- you need action, and this is mostly people digging and talking.
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