Cosmic Swarm 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.
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Additional information
| Weight | 8 lbs |
|---|---|
| Product Type | |
| Platform | Atari 2600 |
| ESRB Rating | Everyone |
| Genre | Action & Adventure |
| Players | 1 |
| Condition | Used |
38 reviews for COSMIC SWARM – Atari 2600 Game
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@Lark –
Really great film! I am a 45 year old mom who really diesn’t play video games much, but was fascinated with the story and the idea behind finding out wether the E.T. bideo game dump was myth or fact. The film interviews key industry players and developers both then and now. These interviews make up the bulk of the film and are very interesting and enlightening. Fact or Fiction? Check it out and see for yourself, you won’t be disappointed. This is a film for every child of the 90’s.
Bill Bailey –
I found very fascinating
Edu24 –
Producto nuevo y en perfecto estado. Documental de obligada adquisición para fans de Atari. Cumple con todas las expectativas.
Jay P. –
Took me back to childhood.
D. Dixey –
Killer doc.
Larry Benjamin –
This documentary tells the story of the Atari company through the lens of the urban legend about how the firm buried millions of cartridges of the E.T. game, "the worst video game in history," and how this one game brought down not only Atari, but the entire video game industry. The truth of course is more mundane, but along the way we are treated to reminisces by former engineers of Atari’s freewheeling party atmosphere that set the tone for every Silicon Valley startup that followed it, along with a great introduction to forensic archeology in the Alamogordo, New Mexico municipal dump, treated with the same reverence as an excavation of Pompeii or Troy. It’s all great fun, and director Zak Penn keeps things moving in a frenetic style suggestive of a video game, with a good balance between talking heads and action in the field.One former executive explains briefly that Atari was not brought down by a bad video game (it turns out that E.T. sold fairly well, and wasn’t even that bad of a game), but by the corporate environment that allowed one game to have that much of an effect – that is, I think that’s what he meant. I would have appreciated a little more exposition here; Atari made around 4 million E.T. cartridges, and even if every single one of them was unsold or returned, assuming a few bucks manufacturing costs each, that should hardly have made a dent in a company of close to half a billion dollars in annual sales – and that’s 1982 dollars, and doesn’t even.
CassidyOReilly –
Great documentary.
Eric Foutz –
Trip down memory lane!
John Werner –
I wasn’t sure if I’d care about a doc about Atari. I do like tech and I was in college when Space Invaders broke out big, but I’ve never been a video game person. I have been more into music and later computers (not gaming on computers though).I’m glad I gave this movie a bit of a chance. It’s interesting. There’s the story of Atari, but it’s not really a deep look at the company. It’s more about people some of whom were part of Atari others who are astute fans and historians. To put Atari in perspective: before there were laptops, Xboxes, PlayStations, and eve iPhones Atari became the biggest selling consumer electronic device sold during its heyday.Fun is what this is. It is a company that sold fun and surprised itself with a huge fast level of success. This was uncharted territory too so there wasn’t a model. By certain moves only an uncharted high-flying company could make Atari killed itself. It certainly didn’t kill the industry it created as it rose again in spectacular fashion. But you get the basic rise and downfall, the people who were at Atari telling us about it, and the story behind one fabled game which supposedly killed the company. Oh, you also get a present day vindication of the game with a crazy archaeological dig resurrecting part of that legend. This is one more fun Atari centric game you simply watch.
Derek Sorrells –
Great movie chronicling the home video game market I of the early 80s. Excellent interviews. Most definitely worth a view.