Atari: Game Over (2014)

Directed by

Zak Penn

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 06m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 236 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows a team as they dig up a landfill in New Mexico to find buried Atari video game cartridges. It explores why the games were buried and what they meant to the company and gamers.

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What happens

Atari: Game Over is a 2014 documentary film directed by Zak Penn. It is about the Atari video game burial excavation. The film was released in 2014 by Microsoft on Xbox Live. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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