Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari (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.
Directors: Tomaso Walliser, Davide E. Agosta.
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Walter Day as Self |
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Nolan Bushnell as Self |
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Manny Gerard as Self |
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Ray Kassar as Self |
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Al Alcorn as Self |
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Ralph H. Baer as Self |
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Joe Decuir as Self |
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David Crane as Self |
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Howard Scott Warshaw as Self |
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Dennis Koble as Self |
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Ed Rotberg as Self |
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Dave Rolfe as Self |
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Steve Russel as Self |
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Chuck Peddle as Self |
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Steve Wozniak as Self |
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Eugene Jarvis as Self |
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Steven Kent as Self |
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Chris Kohler as Self |
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Minoru Arakawa as Self |
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Bil Herd as Narrator |
| Directing | Tomaso Walliser | Director |
| Crew | Eleonora Manzoni | Thanks |
| Directing | Davide E. Agosta | Director |
| Writing | Tomaso Walliser | Writer |
| Crew | Manlio Walliser | Thanks |
| Production | Davide Briani | Researcher |
| Camera | Emilio Colombo | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Hugh Griffiths | Sound Engineer |
| Editing | Walter Salimoos | Color Grading |
| Sound | Bil Herd | Vocals |
| Production | Kent Newman | Line Producer |
| Sound | P.I.G. | Sound |
| Sound | Zoë Blade | Sound |
| Production | Bruno Grampa | Executive Producer |
| Production | Lorenzo Faggi | Producer |
| Production | Mario Albertini | Production Designer |
| Production | Tsia Moses | Line Producer |
| Sound | P.I.G. | Sound Mixer |
| Crew | Jason Scott | Thanks |
| Production | Cecilia Botta | Researcher |
| Production | Tomaso Walliser | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Dale Cowdin | Sound Engineer |
| Production | Mark Pilgrim | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Bruno Grampa | Script Consultant |
| Editing | William T. Soros | Editor |
| Production | Jeri Ellsworth | Executive Producer |
| Art | Tom Navarone | Art Direction |