With an hour to kill, I fired up this documentary on
Netflix. I really didn’t care if the
cartridges were found, I was more interested in the details of the “crash of
the game industry”. The documentary does
a decent job at explaining what happened, but looks more to redeem Howard Warshaw,
the creator of the ET Atari game which is often criticized as “The worst
videogame ever”. Warshaw does come out of the film vindicated,
albeit annoyingly so as he seems a little tough to root for, and is clearly
scarred by the whole ordeal and is very insecure. The insecurities are covered by an ego akin
to Billy Mitchell in a much better documentary “The King of Kong”. If you’re interested in the subject matter,
this film comes recommended given it’s short runtime and production value.
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