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