Atari: Game Over

November. 19,2014 PG-13

Rating：

6.7

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Videogame Landfill

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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?

Seamus Blackley as Self

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