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Nov 20, 2014 · Atari: Game Over: Directed by Zak Penn. With Zak Penn, Joe Lewandowski, Robert Rentschler, Paul Sanchez. A crew search for all of the old Atari 2600 game cartridges of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" that were tossed into a landfill in the 1980s.
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A crew digs up all of the old Atari 2600 game cartridges of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" that were tossed into a landfill in the 1980s. There seem to have been a growing amount of video game documentaries over the last few years (roughly 2012-2015), and many of them understandably focus on Atari and bring up the E.T. story.
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Running time. 66 minutes. Country. America. Language. English. Atari: Game Over is a 2014 documentary film directed by Zak Penn. It is about the Atari video game burial excavation. The film was released in 2014 by Xbox on Xbox Live .
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?
For gamers, geeks and assorted children of the '80s, Zak Penn's "Atari: Game Over" is both a blissful ride down memory lane and debunking of a cultural myth. Penn's documentary, a chronicle of the rise and fall of former game giant, Atari, is a snappy collection of interviews, archival footage looking Atari's notorious "E.T." console video game ...
Nov 16, 2014 · Movie Review: ‘Atari: Game Over’ digs up a great story in a mass grave of game cartridges. by Todd Bishop on November 16, 2014 at 7:45 am November 16, 2014 at 7:58 am.
