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Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari (2017)
110 min | Documentary

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Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari (2017)

110 min | Documentary

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: ...See moreBefore 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 between video games and movie industry in the history of entertainment, the fastest growing company in history, the biggest industry crash ever, the weirdest anecdotes in Silicon Valley, the coolest brand on the planet... Atari is a story to be told for two main reasons: it is pure fun and it is impressively educational. Going through the ups and downs of Atari's ride, one can learn when and how our relationship with the digital world was born (ahead of Apple, Commodore, Microsoft and even the Homebrew Computer Club), how the 100 billion dollars a year video game industry was born, what to do to make your idea successful, what to do to screw it all up, whether to sell your baby to a giant major or not, what not to do to preserve your market from crashing and many others interesting topics. Written by Junk Food Films See less

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20 cast members

Name	Known for
Bil Herd Self - Narrator Self - Narrator See fewer	The Commodore Story (2018)
Nolan Bushnell Self Self See fewer	Computer Space (1971)
Manny Gerard Self Self See fewer	Atari: Game Over (2014)
Ray Kassar Self Self See fewer	Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari (2017)
Al Alcorn Self Self See fewer	Pong (1972)
Ralph H. Baer Self (as Ralph Baer) Self (as Ralph Baer) See fewer	Thumb Candy: The History of Computer Games (2001)
Joe Decuir Self Self See fewer	Combat (1977)
David Crane Self Self See fewer	World 1-1 (2015)
Howard Scott Warshaw Self (as Howard Warshaw) Self (as Howard Warshaw) See fewer	Yars: Recharged (2022)
Dannis Koble Self Self See fewer	Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari (2017)
Ed Rotberg Self Self See fewer	S.T.U.N. Runner (1989)
David Rolfe Self (as Dave Rolfe) Self (as Dave Rolfe) See fewer	Cinema Insomnia with Mr. Lobo (2001)
Steve Russel Self Self See fewer	Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari (2017)
Chuck Peddle Self Self See fewer	8 Bit Generation: The Commodore Wars (2016)
Steve Wozniak Self Self See fewer	Steve Jobs (2015)
Eugene Jarvis Self Self See fewer	Smash TV (1990)
Steven Kent Self Self See fewer	Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari (2017)
Chris Kohler Self Self See fewer	Pixel Poetry: A Film About Games, Art, Society, and Culture (2014)
Walter Day Self Self See fewer	The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)
Minoru Arakawa Self Self See fewer	Crystalis (1990)