Artillery Duel / Spike’s Peak Atari 2600 Classic Video Game Double Ender. 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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ARTILLERY DUEL / SPIKE’S PEAKDOUBLE ENDER – Atari 2600 Game
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Almost 2 hours, there’s lots of info in this one. As far as the ending:(SPOILER) Ray Kassar is an ignorant jerk who ran Atari into the ground and STILL won’t admit it…He is absolutely the most annoying part of this documentary.(END SPOILER)All in all it’s a fun ride for video game fans! (Especially for those who grew up in the 70’s…) I heartily recommend it!
First and foremost, the narration here isn’t that bad. The voice is a bit monotone and isn’t your typical narrator/actor voice, but it’s clearly understandable and gets the job done. If you’re not excited enough about the subject matter, no voiceover is going to change that.As for the documentary itself, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. This is a nice slice of Atari history, from its founders’ backgrounds to its inception as Syzygy and on to its seeming end at the hands of Warner. What I truly like about it is that it offers some different sides of the management story, from primary founder Nolan Bushnell, Warner VP Manny Gerard and oft-demonized Ray Kassar, who oftentimes comes across (and is portrayed as) a typical corporate-type who’s painfully out of his depths in this particular industry. Bushnell is entertaining as always, and Kassar does little to differentiate the real story from the horror story, but it’s Gerard who offers a look into the story that offers something new. You also have input from many former Atari designers (David Crane, Howard Scott Warshaw, Ed Rotberg and others) and it’s very informative and largely entertaining.This is more about the stories of Atari/Warner as remembered (or not, in the case of Ray Kassar) by the people who were there. There’s not a huge amount of game footage (E.T. probably gets most of it) and some classics are not mentioned at all (no love for Tempest?). It really is only a slice of the Atari story, and only mentions t.
An outstanding look at the origins of and early (pre-1980) history of the video game industry with special focus on the meteoric rise and equally precipitous decline of Atari. Great interviews and a great example of how an unimaginative, rigid, corporate structure and a bean counter mentality can lead to short-sighted and destructive decisions.If you lived through the experience and played the games, it is a bitter-sweet story.
This is a great documentary, but the narrator was HORRIBLE!!! I watched the whole thing because I was interested, however it was painful every time he spoke. He sounded like a robot. Like he was trying too hard to sound just right or something. I think they need to go back and redo the voiceover on this and re-release it lol it really is that bad. This is the first review I have EVER left on retrolio Prime Video content, but I just had to in this case the narrator was so bad.
Fantastic documentary, Bil Herd narrates documentaries well.
It was great to relive the early days of video games and get some new insight that I hadn’t heard or read before. I enjoyed some aspects of the editing style where interviews were sort of intercut creating a little bit of back and forth on the way things went down. Each side seems to be convinced they are in the right so, it’s up to the viewer to decide who they believe. I see a lot of gripes about the narrator here but, I didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary with it. My only complaint would be the occasional overuse of seemingly “off script” dialogue and reactions. The clip of Nolan Bushnell grinning slyly and a little creepily was used maybe 6 times and it got a little gratuitous. Except for that minor quibble, I think the doc was very well done and recommend it to anyone who grew up during this time or wants to learn about the “old days” of the home video game industry.
Unlike others both my wife and I were not particularly bothered by the narrator. He wasn’t particularly great or particularly poor either. I have heard far worse and for free on prime this was an excellent documentary to me.I will say though that unless you remember the culture and the games of the era much of the nostalgia won’t be there and some of the context may be missing possibly in understanding this but that is like many things like the Rubik’s cube or if you did a documentary on a pet rock.The designers offered up a lot of info especially the founder of Atari. This program did a great job explaining the rise and fall of Atari. Some things like how bad the ET game was you would have to play in order to know.
I found it interesting how they pitted some of the interviews against each other, although I’m guessing some of the reactions were out of context as they clearly aren’t speaking in the same room. But the stories to hear them were great. A couple of the interviewees clearly have big heads and poor memories. Still, informative and interesting to hear the stories. The documentary seems to cover a lot of ground across a range of related topics which I quite enjoyed and must have take some time to compile. I’m not surprised that others mention some of the details are not correct. It did get a tiny bit long at the end.And yes, the narration was terrible. You notice it immediately. The tone of the narrator is they are reading it and not speaking it with any sort of conviction or emotion. It also doesn’t fit in with the interviews – a stark contrast.
Like others – the narration is really not as good as the live comments or the natural narrative of the series of events that birthed Atari and led to its fall. Still -it’s a nicely done piece.
Love that, even in the end, Atari CEO Ray Kassar still couldnt admit that firing his best developers was the reason for the fall of Atari. Big ego and clueless management will always ruin a company.