Atari: Game Over

2014 · 66 min · Directed by Zak Penn · PG-13

★ 6.6(235 TMDB votes)

Truth is stranger than legend...

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?

Cast

Zak Penn

Self

Nolan Bushnell

Self

Howard Scott Warshaw

Self

Manny Gerard

Self

Joe Lewandowski

Self

Paul Sanchez

Self

Ernest Cline

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Seamus Blackley

Self

Raiford Guins

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Mike Mika

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Andrew Reinhard

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George R.R. Martin

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Werner Herzog

Self (archival)

Crew

Director: Zak Penn
Writer: Zak Penn
Producer: Mike A. Burns, Francis Gasparini, Colin K. Gray, Megan Raney Aarons
Editor: Andrew Seklir
Composer: Stephen Endelman

Details

Studios: Xbox Entertainment Studios, Lightbox Entertainment, Fuel Entertainment USA
Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America
Languages: German, Italian, French
Release: November 19, 2014