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

6.2 110 mins Documentary   2017
Junk Food Films  
Director(s): Davide E. Agosta Tomaso Walliser

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.

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

Walter Day

as Self

Nolan Bushnell

as Self

Manny Gerard

as Self

Ray Kassar

as Self

Al Alcorn

as Self

Ralph H. Baer

as Self

Joe Decuir

as Self

David Crane

as Self

Dennis Koble

as Self

Ed Rotberg

as Self

Dave Rolfe

as Self

Steve Russel

as Self

Chuck Peddle

as Self

Steve Wozniak

as Self

Eugene Jarvis

as Self

Steven Kent

as Self

Chris Kohler

as Self

Minoru Arakawa

as Self

Bil Herd

as Narrator

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