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Truth is stranger than legend... - Atari: Game Over
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Title: Atari: Game Over

Release Date: 19 Nov 2014

Runtime: 1h 6m

Genre: Documentary

Director: Xbox Entertainment Studios, Lightbox Entertainment, Fuel Entertainment USA, GRAiNEY Pictures, Red Box Films

Production Companies: Xbox Entertainment Studios, Lightbox Entertainment, Fuel Entertainment USA, GRAiNEY Pictures, Red Box Films

Overview: 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?

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Average Vote: 6.572 (222 votes)

Cast

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