Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Walter Day

Self

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Nolan Bushnell

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Manny Gerard

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Ray Kassar

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Al Alcorn

Self

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Ralph H. Baer

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Joe Decuir

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David Crane

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Researcher	Cecilia Botta Davide Briani
	Executive Producer	Tomaso Walliser Bruno Grampa Mark Pilgrim Jeri Ellsworth
	Producer	Lorenzo Faggi
	Production Designer	Mario Albertini
	Line Producer	Kent Newman Tsia Moses
Directing	Director	Tomaso Walliser Davide E. Agosta
Writing	Writer	Tomaso Walliser
	Script Consultant	Bruno Grampa
Sound	Vocals	Bil Herd
	Sound Engineer	Hugh Griffiths Dale Cowdin
	Sound Mixer	P.I.G.
	Sound	P.I.G. Zoe Blade
Camera	Director of Photography	Emilio Colombo
Editing	Editor	William T. Soros
	Color Grading	Walter Salimoos
Art	Art Direction	Tom Navarone
Crew	Thanks	Jason Scott Manlio Walliser Eleonora Manzoni
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