Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari (2017)
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Documentary
Bil Herd , Nolan Bushnell , Manny Gerard , Ray Kassar , Al Alcorn , Ralph H. Baer , Joe Decuir , David Crane , Howard Scott Warshaw ,
Dannis Koble , Ed Rotberg , David Rolfe , Steve Russel , Chuck Peddle , Steve Wozniak
Tomaso Walliser
IMDB 110
2017
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. Nolan Bushnell
and Atari have a huge collection of firsts: the first successful video game company| the first coin-op video game ever| the first general purpose console to win the
market| the first marriage ...