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Once Upon Atari

6.120032h NRMovieDocumentary

In the late 70s and early 80s, ET phoned home on Atari 2600 and became the video game that New Media magazine later described as having toppled a billion dollar industry. We know the industry rose again as a pale, commercial version of its…

DirectorHoward Scott Warshaw
ProducerHoward Scott Warshaw

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Cast · Directed by Howard Scott Warshaw

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Larry Anderson Jr.
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Marlin Bates, IV
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Nolan Bushnell
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Jerome Domurat
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CD
Clint Dyer
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Tod Frye
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Rob Fulop
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Jim Huether
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Larry Kaplan
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George Kiss
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Suki Lee
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Eric Manghise
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Once Upon Atari hasn't started streaming in United Kingdom yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around September 28, 2003. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.