yerrasneha93 Review of Atari: Game Over

Atari: Game Over (2014)

To me , it's all about absolving a guy's guilty conscience

[7/10 · 8 December 2015]

Atari : game over, 'some stupid documentary on video games and why an I-don't-care video game company collapsed , why did it bury a stupid video game'. This is the plot I got from the first few minutes. Always looked upon those video game geeks. Never understand what's their obsession with that. It's about an Engineer Howard Warshaw ,who created video games getting millions of dollars profit to the Atari video gaming company, the initial years seemed like from that of the Wolf of the Wall street, that heightened exuberance, mad celebrations, partying - as if that's it and life's going to be that way forever. when you see those things, you know an impending doom is on its way. That's what happens here too. Here's this geeky engineer, having the time of his life, getting the opportunity to turn the classics/ one of the greatest movies ever E.T into a video game. I know how geeks work , my brother is one- shut themselves up in rooms and never come out until the game is done. He was given just 5 weeks of time – apparently, that's not at all enough. Here, two crazy things happened – the company is just too ambitious to grow even bigger, and in that frenzy, greed, it took a stupid decision of producing just too many E.T. video games and then, this guy, who knew what's he's doing – i.e. he's turning a predominantly children's movie into a video game. So, it's common sense that it should be simple. But, no, he wanted to prove his genius or just to change things up and give something unique to the world of video games- the game , it seems – was pretty tough. Nobody got it and they returned the millions of video games. Hmm.. not, clear if this is the reason for the company's downfall, but, the company's stocks spiraled down like anything and they had to shut up. And this engineer guy was held responsible for a company's downfall and thousands of people losing their jobs, including his. His career got destroyed , and upon that the guilt and accusation of ruining a company. That guy seemed to have never recovered from it. That was just too emotional to see. So, at the end, at least after like 30 years, the blemish is a bit washed away , and now people kind of seem to understand E.T. is truly a good game. Many ardent video game lovers vouch for it. As one of the head guys said, if too many people say something, it becomes the truth – the reality of the herd mentality and the toll it can take on people like Howard Warshaw's lives. Firstly, kudos to the guy who wanted to dig it out. He's absolutely mad otherwise. Nothing good could have come out of the digging if not for absolving a man's conscience of a false, imposed guilt. The guy who made the documentary , great job.