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To add insult to injury, the DVD itself has all the production values of a Powerpoint presentation. Primarily it’s not a pressed DVD, but a burnt one. Less than half the content is actually playable on my PS2. Other than that show-stopper, the editing is seriously distracting. While commentary is grouped together so as to highlight particular tails, the lack of interview technique results in a feeling of disorientation. Don’t get me started on the transition effects, or the Tarot card metaphor that gets beaten to death. If you want an idea of early computing, you would do much better to read (edited) The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling, or Hackers by Steven Levy (sorry, got the two mixed up first time, thanks to everyone that pointed out the error). It won’t give you Atari’s specific story, but that’s a good thing all by itself, even before you take into account that it’s written by an actual writer. |
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