Review of Atari: Game Over (2014) by Allan C — 02 Jul 2015
Screenwriter Zak Penn follows up on the urban legend of the desert landfill that contains thousands of buried Atari 2600 ET cartridges. Like most documentaries, there is the surface story about whether the cartridges are there or not, but the documentary is also about something else, the fall of Atari and the home video game industry at the time.
What's interesting is that the documentary actually becomes a defender of the video game, saying the game wasn't the cause of the fall of Atari and that it's not that bad of a game, but as someone who had and played ET on my Atari 2600 back in the day, I found it a pretty lame game and did not play it nearly as much as my other games.
Best of all was my new geek hero Earnest Cline, author of the 80s geek love letter "Ready Player One." I'm not sure if this will interest one gamers, but I found it pretty fun.
This review of Atari: Game Over (2014) was written by Allan C on 02 Jul 2015.
Atari: Game Over has generally received positive reviews.
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