Balder
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Post by Balder on May 28, 2016 18:32:11 GMT
Just saw this documentary on Netflix today. It's really a great documentary and it depicts stuff really accurately. Howard Scott Warshaw (the man who made E.T., Yar's Revenge and Raiders of The Lost Ark is in it) is in it along with Nolan Bushnell (founder of Atari). They have of course the backstory of Atari, but what makes this one different from the rest of gaming documentaries is that they actually have an accurate and personal explanation of how things in Atari actually worked. And they explained how E.T. isn't the worst game ever made and wasn't the sole reason the company went downhill. The main focus is of course digging up the legendary landfill in Alamogordo in Mexico, where E.T. was buried. Funny how the documentary was made by Xbox. I remember when Xbox announced the documentary during one of their E3 conferences, but then never hearing of it again, then suddenly it popped up on Netflix. Give it a watch!
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stratogustav
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Post by stratogustav on May 28, 2016 21:10:37 GMT
I remember that documentary. It was very entertaining. Spoilers alert, they end up finding the E.T.s.
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Balder
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Post by Balder on May 28, 2016 21:46:42 GMT
I remember that documentary. It was very entertaining. Spoilers alert, they end up finding the E.T.s. Well no shit, it was all over the newspaper when they found that shit. And on the internet. |
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centipede
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Post by centipede on May 29, 2016 10:04:30 GMT
I love a good game documentary. I hope they make a proper one of Sega one day.
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Guilion
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Post by Guilion on Jun 12, 2016 19:43:07 GMT
I still preffer Once upon Atari. I just find it to be a better re-telling of Atari as a whole by hearing the chronicles and personal stories of the programmers and designers within the companies instead of people just retelling the story known by everyone, it also helps understanding just how much Atari changed as it started to grow as a company.
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Balder
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Post by Balder on Jun 13, 2016 13:25:53 GMT
I still preffer Once upon Atari. I just find it to be a better re-telling of Atari as a whole by hearing the chronicles and personal stories of the programmers and designers within the companies instead of people just retelling the story known by everyone, it also helps understanding just how much Atari changed as it started to grow as a company. I gotta watch that one then. But to defend this documentary; It still does a much better job than most gaming documentaries. |
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Guilion
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Post by Guilion on Jun 13, 2016 22:16:24 GMT
I still preffer Once upon Atari. I just find it to be a better re-telling of Atari as a whole by hearing the chronicles and personal stories of the programmers and designers within the companies instead of people just retelling the story known by everyone, it also helps understanding just how much Atari changed as it started to grow as a company. I gotta watch that one then. But to defend this documentary; It still does a much better job than most gaming documentaries. That I won't argue, even though I preffer Once Upon Atari for its substance Atari:Game Over is way more enterteining to watch. |
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