Atari: Game Over

Atari: Game Over (2014)

November 19th, 20141h 6min

Documentary
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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?


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