Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari
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.
Directed by Tomaso Walliser · Written by Tomaso Walliser
Where to Watch
Rent or Buy
Cast
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Walter Day Self - Nolan Bushnell Self
- Manny Gerard Self
- Ray Kassar Self
- Al Alcorn Self
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Ralph H. Baer Self - Joe Decuir Self
- David Crane Self
- Howard Scott Warshaw Self
- Dennis Koble Self
- Ed Rotberg Self
- Dave Rolfe Self
Make it a double feature
3h 30m together
Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari
8 Bit Generation: The Commodore Wars
Both from Tomaso Walliser.
