Friday, June 15, 2018

ET Go Home



ATARI: GAME OVER-Nerds will love this documentary about the Atari video game adaptation of the hit movie E.T., sometimes dubbed “the worst video game ever”. It really tells the story/myth/urban legend that Atari dumped thousands of unwanted ET games into a landfill in Almagordo, New Mexico and the efforts of the dumps's “caretaker” as he tries to find them. It also covers games many pundits say were far worse and also spotlights the guy who created the game and how he was blamed for the downturn of Atari and its eventual demise. 

Director Zack Penn had made the great pseudo-documentary INCIDENT AT LOCH NESS and later gained fame writing big budgeted movies featuring Marvel superheroes.

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