Documentaries: Atari: Game Over

Zero and The Wiz SPLIT on Atari: Game Over The disagreement between Zero and Wiz about this film is simple: is the film worth the time for someone who is into video game history? Zero says yes: the film has some interesting factoids on the rise and fall of Atari as well as the whole mess that was the E.T. The Extra Terrestrial game. Wiz says no: the film has too much fluff to be substantive to satiate someone who has an interest in the subject and there are better stuff out there to watch on YouTube if you are truly interested. Both Zero and Wiz agree that only one story is really all that interesting: the story of Howard Scott Warshaw. The rest of the stories don't really hold up, especially when they pepper film references, humor and a need to make this more important than it really is. There is a great story in here, but Wiz thinks the film would have been better served on just making it about Warshaw, whereas Zero thought it was just fine for a specific type of viewer.