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Atari: Game Over(2014)
Status: Released
Date: 2014-11-19
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Time: 1h 6m
Truth is stranger than legend...
Overview:
The Xbox Originals documentary that chronicles the fall of the Atari Corporation through the lens of one of the biggest mysteries of all time, dubbed “The Great Video Game Burial of 1983.” Rumor claims that millions of returned and unsold E.T. cartridges were buried in the desert, but what really happened there?
Languages: German, Italian, French, English, Spanish.
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United Kingdom,
United States of America
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Fuel Entertainment USA
GRAiNEY Pictures
Red Box Films
Movie: Atari: Game Over
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Seamus Blackley
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The Xbox Originals documentary that chronicles the fall of the Atari Corporation through the lens of one of the biggest mysteries of all time, dubbed “The Great Video Game Burial of 1983.” Rumor claims that millions of returned and unsold E.T. cartridges were buried in the desert, but what really happened there?
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2014-11-19
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6.6
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Truth is stranger than legend...
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