Atari: Game Over (2014) on Netflix
TV-1420141h 6m
In 1983, Atari reportedly buried unsold E.T. cartridges in a New Mexico landfill. Decades later, a documentary crew digs at the Alamogordo site to test the legend.
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Plot summary
Rumor holds that Atari dumped unsold E.T. cartridges in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. A documentary team sets out to excavate the site. The work takes months of preparation, and the dig is carried out on April 26, 2014. The local authority allows it to last one day and orders the landfill closed by April 27. Digging was planned to reach eighteen feet but goes to thirty. About 1,300 of the estimated 700,000 buried games are unearthed during roughly three hours of work. The Alamogordo City Commission intends to offer seven hundred of those cartridges for sale, five hundred go to the Smithsonian Institution and New Mexico museums, and mayor Susie Galea hopes the site becomes a tourist attraction.
Cast
- Howard Scott Warshawas Self - Game Engineer, Atari Inc.
- Manny Gerardas Self - Co-Chief Operating Officer, Warner Communications Inc.
- Joe Lewandowskias Self - Waste Disposal Expert & Historian
- Raiford Guinsas Self - Associate Professor of Culture & Technology, Stony Brook University
- Mike Mikaas Self - Game Designer & Preservationist
- Andrew Reinhardas Self - Archaeologist, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
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- Robert Rentschleras Self - Former Mayor, Alamogordo
- Son Huffmonas Self - Construction Division Manager, Mese Verde Enterprises
- Pat Magillas Self - Director of Engineering, Mese Verde Enterprises
- Susie Galeaas Self - Mayor, Alamogordo
- Gary Whittaas Self - Screenwriter & Former Game Journalist
- Deb Lewandowskias Self
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Atari: Game Over (2014)
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- The excavation lasted only about three hours, because the local authority of Alamogordo allowed the dig for just one day and ordered the site closed by April 27.
