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Free to Play
Follow three professional video game players as they overcome personal adversity, family pressures, and the realities of life to compete in a $1,000,000 tournament that could change their lives forever.
Easy to Learn, Hard to Master: The Fate of Atari
Before Google, Yahoo and even Apple, before the Silicon Valley cliché of informal dress code, skateboards running the corridors and wild creativity became commonplace, one company embodied the digital economy lifestyle and business style: the one firm coming out of the Age of Aquarius was Atari. The story of Atari is two-thirds the story of Nolan Bushnell, founder and visionary, and one-third the first and probably biggest boom and bust of the new economy some 20 years before the new economy even existed. Atari was showing that technology is cool, way before the personal computer revolution took place and they were reaching out to an ever-growing audience with something that is still cool today: video games. Atari literally introduced the digital world to the mass consciousness.
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Walter Day Self
Nolan Bushnell Self
Manny Gerard Self
Ray Kassar Self
Al Alcorn Self
Ralph H. Baer Self
Joe Decuir Self
David Crane Self
Dennis Koble Self
Ed Rotberg Self
Dave Rolfe Self
Steve Russel Self
Chuck Peddle Self
Steve Wozniak Self
Eugene Jarvis Self
Steven Kent Self
Chris Kohler Self
Minoru Arakawa Self
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