Encounter At L-5 Atari 2600 Game. Game only. Great condition!!! Tested and works like new.
———This game is fully cleaned, tested & working. Includes the Disc/Cartridge Only. May have some minor scratches/scuffs.This description was last updated on October 28th, 2020.
EGGOMANIA - Atari 2600 Game
ENDURO (BLUE LABEL) - Atari 2600 Game
ENCOUNTER AT L-5 – Atari 2600 Game
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Additional information
| Weight | 8 lbs |
|---|---|
| Product Type | |
| Platform | Atari 2600 |
| ESRB Rating | Everyone |
| Genre | Action & Adventure |
| Players | 1-2 |
| Condition | Used |
I am really surprised that people don’t get the narrator. His style is straight, dispassionate . . . the exact (cliché) delivery one would expect in a *tech* video! Given the irreverant tone in so much of this, it’s obvious that the speaker was deliberately chosen, and probably instructed to deliver the narration exactly as it is done.Other than that – if you want to know what went wrong in Atari, and perhaps America, watch this.
Like others – the narration is really not as good as the live comments or the natural narrative of the series of events that birthed Atari and led to its fall. Still -it’s a nicely done piece.
Great documentary. I enjoyed the trip down memory lane and the explanation as to what really happened to Atari.
This film told a great, clear, and thorough story about the history of Atari and, really, the video game industry. It is well told and includes interviews with all the important players. This documentary is particularly notable because of the interviews with people like Ralph Baer and Ray Kassar, who don’t usually appear in documentaries like this; it’s a true gem to hear their voices and get their thoughts.Others have had negative comments about the narrator — FWIW his voice/tone/pacing didn’t bother me and I didn’t even take note until after I had watched the film and read the reviews on here.
Unlike others both my wife and I were not particularly bothered by the narrator. He wasn’t particularly great or particularly poor either. I have heard far worse and for free on prime this was an excellent documentary to me.I will say though that unless you remember the culture and the games of the era much of the nostalgia won’t be there and some of the context may be missing possibly in understanding this but that is like many things like the Rubik’s cube or if you did a documentary on a pet rock.The designers offered up a lot of info especially the founder of Atari. This program did a great job explaining the rise and fall of Atari. Some things like how bad the ET game was you would have to play in order to know.
A must watch for video games enthusiast.
First and foremost, the narration here isn’t that bad. The voice is a bit monotone and isn’t your typical narrator/actor voice, but it’s clearly understandable and gets the job done. If you’re not excited enough about the subject matter, no voiceover is going to change that.As for the documentary itself, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. This is a nice slice of Atari history, from its founders’ backgrounds to its inception as Syzygy and on to its seeming end at the hands of Warner. What I truly like about it is that it offers some different sides of the management story, from primary founder Nolan Bushnell, Warner VP Manny Gerard and oft-demonized Ray Kassar, who oftentimes comes across (and is portrayed as) a typical corporate-type who’s painfully out of his depths in this particular industry. Bushnell is entertaining as always, and Kassar does little to differentiate the real story from the horror story, but it’s Gerard who offers a look into the story that offers something new. You also have input from many former Atari designers (David Crane, Howard Scott Warshaw, Ed Rotberg and others) and it’s very informative and largely entertaining.This is more about the stories of Atari/Warner as remembered (or not, in the case of Ray Kassar) by the people who were there. There’s not a huge amount of game footage (E.T. probably gets most of it) and some classics are not mentioned at all (no love for Tempest?). It really is only a slice of the Atari story, and only mentions t.
Good Documentary, I especially enjoy the interviews with some of the individuals at Atari who are seldom interviewed in some of the other Documentaries I have seen on Atari
I found it interesting how they pitted some of the interviews against each other, although I’m guessing some of the reactions were out of context as they clearly aren’t speaking in the same room. But the stories to hear them were great. A couple of the interviewees clearly have big heads and poor memories. Still, informative and interesting to hear the stories. The documentary seems to cover a lot of ground across a range of related topics which I quite enjoyed and must have take some time to compile. I’m not surprised that others mention some of the details are not correct. It did get a tiny bit long at the end.And yes, the narration was terrible. You notice it immediately. The tone of the narrator is they are reading it and not speaking it with any sort of conviction or emotion. It also doesn’t fit in with the interviews – a stark contrast.
This documentary about the creator, designers, engineers, fathers of gaming and corporate heads of ATARI is fascinating.A lot of: he said…no, he said… I don’t recall that meeting, etc., etc.,… when it comes to the sale and billion dollar growth by one of the first Silicon Valley companies; which was taken over by a large well known corporation and run by anon-gaming east coast suit-and-tie CEO.It’s great that this doc has actual interviews with most of the people involved, not just pictures of them.Be sure to read the ‘what they did after Atari’ bios at the end.