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Jun 2, 2014 · Prior to the universally-regarded flop of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial on the Atari 2600, few films got the video game treatment.The movie-game business didn’t pick up steam until 1982, around the ...
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Sep 13, 2023 · With E.T. blazing a path in theaters, Atari paid $22 million for the privilege to turn 1982’s massive hit into a video game smash. The company’s previous efforts adapting Raiders of the Lost ...
Feb 22, 2016 · Atari ordered an initial run of four million copies and budgeted a reported $5m on what would be, at the time, the biggest-ever advertising campaign for a video game. "ET needs help from his human ...
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Jan 28, 2015 · Penn’s most recent project as director is Atari: Game Over, a documentary about the collapse of Atari in the early 80s and the burial of E.T. videogame cartridges in the New Mexico desert.
Nov 17, 2014 · Redemption song. More than a film about the dig itself, Atari: Game Over is a redemption piece for Howard Scott Warshaw, the programmer on E.T. Prior to E.T., Warshaw was an Atari legend. The man ...
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Nov 20, 2014 · The "urban legend" is that Atari dumped millions of "E.T." game cartridges in the desert because the game was so bad that they had to bury it. The movie is very much about how that story came to ...
