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Atari: Game Over

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An urban legend states that in 1983 the Atari Corporation, faced with an overwhelmingly negative response to the E.T. video game, disposed of millions of unsold game cartridges by burying them in a small New Mexico town. Could the story be true?

Cast: Zak Penn, Howard Warshaw, Mike Mika and Ernst Cline
Directed by Zak Penn
Executive produced by Simon Chinn and Jonathan Chinn
Cinematographer: Eric Zimmerman
Edited by Andrew Seklir

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Atari: Game Over

Documentary•TV-14•1 Hour 6 Mins

Explores the fabled urban legend known as “The Great Video Game Burial of 1983”. As the story goes, the Atari Corporation, faced with an overwhelmingly negative response to the E.T. video ga

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Credits

Cast

Zak Penn, Howard Warshaw, Mike Mika, Ernst Cline

Director

Zak Penn

Executive Producers

Simon Chinn, Jonathan Chinn

Cinematographer

Eric Zimmerman

Editor

Andrew Seklir