With these two new interviews we have re-started also shooting. We are working on some new projects we will reveal later, but in the meantime the most important news it that our library is growing again.Have you recognized him? We have interviewed John Romero in a submarine!

Here someone is approaching a submarine. He is the captain…

And in fact he is checking what happening outside and driving it!
 

Have you recognized him? We have interviewed John Romero in a submarine! (It’s the “Enrico Toti” -S 506 at the National Science and Technology Museum “Leonardo Da Vinci” in Milano, Italy)

While on the ISS in front of the ‘cupola’ window…

An interview with Brenda Romero floating in the space!

Both the interviews have been shooted at the National Science and Technology Museum “Leonardo Da Vinci” in Milano, Italy.
Thank you to all the people of the museum that have helped us!

This incredible result came after a lot of work and commitment to this project in which we have ever believed.

Many people have helped us reaching this achievement; we really want to thank you all from the bottom of our heart! In sparse order: Jason Scott – who encouraged us since the very first moment, Bil Herd – narrator and friend, Cecilia Botta – PR and THE supporter, Chris Wilkins, Jeri Ellsworth, Mark Pilgrim, all the staff of the Computer History Museum, Kyle Greenberg and the Bond/360 team.

Now it’s time to put all our energies into creating this new documentary that we will deliver for Christmas!

The story of Atari is two-thirds the story of Nolan Bushnell, founder and visionary, and one-third the first and probably biggest boom and bust of the new economy some 20 years before the new economy even existed.

Atari was showing that technology is cool, way before the personal computer revolution took place and they were reaching out to an ever-growing audience with something that is still cool today: video games.

Atari literally introduced the digital world to the mass consciousness.

Nolan Bushnell and Atari have a huge collection of firsts: the first successful video game company, the first coin-op video game ever, the first general purpose console to win the market, the first marriage between video games and movie industry in the history of entertainment, the fastest growing company in history, the biggest industry crash ever, the weirdest anecdotes in Silicon Valley, the coolest brand on the planet…

Atari is a story to be told for two main reasons: it is pure fun and it is impressively educational.

Going through the ups and downs of Atari’s ride, one can learn when and how our relationship with the digital world was born (ahead of Apple, Commodore, Microsoft and even the Homebrew Computer Club), how the 100 billion dollars a year video game industry was born, what to do to make your idea successful, what to do to screw it all up, whether to sell your baby to a giant major or not, what not to do to preserve your market from crashing and many others interesting topics

This 100 minutes long documentary about the Atari story will be narrated by Bil Herd, former Commodore senior engineer and our spokesman from the 8 bit era, and will feature a list of unreleased interviews with the key people of these events, including a very rare one with Warner VP Manny Gerard and a unique one with Atari CEO Ray Kassar, the man held responsible for Atari success and the video game industry crash at the same time, who never appeared in a documentary before.

All the people appearing in this movie are far from verbose. They are not trying to build any kind of mythology about genius, vision or the will to change the world, they are telling the truth about going for the billions and screwing it up because they are simply human beings and they were moving into unknown territories.

This is a completely different Silicon Valley from the one we are used to hearing about, less heavenly, much more earthly, much more true, a lot more engaging.

You can pledge for this new documentary on Kickstarter: