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

  • NR
  • 03/01/2017 (US)
  • Documentary
  • 1h 50m

Overview

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.

Tomaso Walliser

Director, Writer

Davide E. Agosta

Director

Cast

Walter Day's headshot

Walter Day

Self
Nolan Bushnell's headshot

Nolan Bushnell

Self
Manny Gerard's headshot

Manny Gerard

Self
Ray Kassar's headshot

Ray Kassar

Self
Al Alcorn's headshot

Al Alcorn

Self
Ralph H. Baer's headshot

Ralph H. Baer

Self
Joe Decuir's headshot

Joe Decuir

Self
David Crane's headshot

David Crane

Self

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