Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari 2017

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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.

Homepage http://www.8bitgeneration.com/the-movie/easy-to-learn-hard-to-master/
Release Date 2017-02-01
Runtime 1h 50m
Directors Tomaso Walliser, Davide E. Agosta, Emilio Colombo
Producers Tomaso Walliser, Bruno Grampa, Mark Pilgrim, Jeri Ellsworth, Lorenzo Faggi, Kent Newman, Tsia Moses
Writers Tomaso Walliser, Bruno Grampa