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ATARI GAME OVER [Regular Priced-down Edition]

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Release Date January 16, 2019
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Catalog No.PCBE-55969
JAN/ISBN 4988013723115
Product Type DVD
TV Standard NTSC
Number of Discs 1
Color Color
Running Time 91minutes
Layers single-sided/single-layered
Aspect Ratio(s) 16:9LB
Region 2
SubtitlesNone

Description

[Machine Translation] Urban legend is true! The "ATARI Graveyard" in New Mexico is the place where the worst game ever made, "E.T.," was unearthed! In the early 1980s, the ATARI 2600 TV game console was a social phenomenon. E.T." was developed exclusively for the ATARI 2600 and was the most important game of the 1982 Christmas season. It was tied up with the hit Steven Spielberg movie and was supposed to be a game that would change the history of video games, but... today, it is considered by gamers to be the worst game ever made, and is branded in disgrace as the game that led ATARI to bankruptcy. And now, a large amount of bad "E.T." inventory is buried in the New Mexico desert.... Zak Penn, the well-known screenwriter of "The Avengers," set out to verify this urban legend. With camera in hand, he follows those who are trying to excavate the ATARI graveyard, and interviews the people who were involved in the development of ATARI games in the 1980s, as well as the game creators. What awaits him are the many strange fates of the people involved with ATARI, including the creators who were called genius programmers but left the game industry because they felt responsible for the failure of "E.T."... What was ATARI, the fastest growing American venture company in history, and how did it collapse? And will a legendary game be unearthed? This documentary film is full of love for games and delves (seriously) into the trajectory of ATARI, which became a social phenomenon in the early days of video games but suddenly disappeared, by unearthing the worst game ever made, "E.T.". The film was planned and supervised by Fumio Kurokawa, the leader of Kurokawa Juku, a leading journalist and producer in the video game industry, and includes rare bonus footage unique to the Japanese edition, such as an exclusive interview with Nolan Bushnell in LA, interviews with producers and game stores. The Japanese version of the film will also include a special bonus video.
Special Feature / Bonus Track: Japanese original making-of documentary

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Description in Japanese

ATARI GAME OVER アタリ ゲームオーバー [PRICEDOWN通常版] / 洋画

都市伝説は本当だった?! ニューメキシコ州「ATARIの墓場」から最悪のクソゲー『E.T.』の発掘に挑む! 1980年代初頭、社会現象を巻き起こしたTVゲーム機ATARI 2600。その専用ソフトとして開発され、1982年のクリスマスシーズンの最重要ソフトとして開発されたゲーム『E.T.』。大ヒットしたスティーヴン・スピルバーグの映画とタイアップし、ゲームの歴史を変える作品となるはずだったが・・・現在では、ゲーマーたちから史上最悪のクソゲーとして語られ、ATARI社を倒産に導いたソフトという不名誉な烙印を押されている。そして、その『E.T.』の不良在庫が大量にニューメキシコのとある砂漠に埋められているという・・・。その都市伝説を映画『アベンジャーズ』の脚本家としても知られるザック・ペンが、検証するために立ち上がった。彼はカメラを片手に、ATARIの墓場の発掘に挑戦する者たちを追いかけ、さらに1980年代のATARIゲーム開発にたずさわった人物やゲームクリエイターに取材を試みる。そんな彼を待ち受けていたのは、天才プログラマーと呼ばれながら『E.T.』失敗の責任を感じゲーム業界を去ったクリエイターなど、ATARIをめぐる人達の数奇な運命の数々だった・・・。アメリカのベンチャー企業として史上最速のスピードで成長し崩壊したATARIとはなんだったのか? そして伝説のゲームは発掘されるのか? 本作は、TVゲーム黎明期に社会現象となりつつも、突然消え去ったATARIの軌跡を、史上最悪のクソゲー『E.T.』の発掘により(真面目に)掘り下げる、ゲームに対する愛に溢れたドキュメンタリー作品。本作の企画と監修には、ゲーム業界を代表するジャーナリストでありプロデューサーである 黒川塾主宰・黒川文雄氏によるLA現地取材ノーラン・ブッシュネル氏への単独インタビュー、プロデューサーインタビュー、ゲームショップへの取材など、日本版ならではの貴重な特典映像も収録。
映像特典: 「アタリ: ゲーム・オーバー コンティニュー」~ATARIを創った人に聞いてみた~ ATARI社創設者ノーラン・ブッシュネル&本ドキュメンタリー製作にゲームジャーナリストとして活躍する黒川文雄が現地突撃インタビューを慣行。(日本独自のメイキング映像)

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