FROM BEDROOMS TO BILLIONS: THE AMIGA YEARS - FULL MOVIE
FBTB: THE AMIGA YEARS (SPECIAL EDITION) • 2h 31m
From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years! is a feature film documentary that explores the influence of the Commodore Amiga and how it influenced a generation of developers to take video game development, music and publishing to a whole new level which then changed the video game industry forever!
This film, which is the sequel to the acclaimed From Bedrooms to Billions (2014), looks at the creation of the now legendary Commodore Amiga, a remarkable and very personal tale told by the surviving team members themselves. The film then goes onto explore how once released in 1985 the Commodore Amiga helped evolve the video games industry as a whole new set of games and experiences were possible thanks to its incredible custom hardware. Many of these styles of games, music, and demos as well as development techniques honed during the Amiga era are still present in the video games industry we know today.
Interviews include the creators of Populous, The Secret of Monkey Island, Sensible World of Soccer, Defender of the Crown, Syndicate, Alien Breed, Wings, Shadow of the Beast, Turrican II, The First Samurai, Another World, Flashback, and many many others.
This film will be of great interest to anyone who enjoys either games or the history of the quite remarkable video games industry.
Up Next in FBTB: THE AMIGA YEARS (SPECIAL EDITION)
-
Eric Chahi - Creating ANOTHER WORLD
Eric Chahi discusses creating one of the most famous games of all time in this in-depth making of!
-
Trip Hawkins - Founding ELECTRONIC ARTS
How did Electronic Arts actually come about? Trip Hawkins risked the wrath of Steve Jobs by leaving Apple, however he had some ideas and the as yet totally new and unformed video games industry in front of him...all he needed was a name for the company!
-
Paul Cuisset - Creating FLASHBACK
Paul Cuisset goes into great detail on how a request to create a tie-in for a Godfather movie license turned into one of the biggest selling titles of all time...FLASHBACK