Tag: Atari
Missile Command Coming To The Big Screen
According to Variety, 20th Century Fox is planning a big screen adaptation of the classic Atari video game Missile Command.
The game, released in 1980 by Atari, has the player protecting six cities from a variety of missile attacks with a group of defensive batteries. The original game had little additional narrative and was without an ending. The game continued going until the player lost and, as such, was unwinnable.
Leonardo DiCaprio will star in ”Atari”
Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star in ”Atari” (writers – Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman), about the godfather of the video game industry, Nolan Bushnell.
Bushnell was an engineering student, puzzle-lover and game enthusiast who went from fixing broken pinball machines to launching Atari Corp., a video game manufacturer, in the early ’70s.
Its first product was a little game called Pong, which led to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of video game sales. Within a few years, he sold the company to Warner Communications for $28 million.
