Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari

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Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari

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.

Release Date

2017-02-01

Year

2017

Duration

1h 50m

Status

Released

Score

6.20

Production

#video-game

Cast

Walter Day

Walter Day

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Nolan Bushnell

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Manny Gerard

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Ray Kassar

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Al Alcorn

Ralph H. Baer

Ralph H. Baer

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Joe Decuir

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David Crane

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Howard Scott Warshaw

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Dennis Koble