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From Bedrooms To Billions The Amiga Years Announced
Doncaster, UK (August 9th, in the year of our Lord
2016) -- Following on the success of the original "From
Bedrooms To Billions" this next instalment "From Bedrooms To
Billions: The Amiga Years" gives you an insiders look into the
fascinating true story on the Commodore Amiga's influence on the
video games industry.
As with the original ‘From Bedrooms to Billions’ the filmmakers
balance the ‘The Amiga Years!’ with nostalgic archive footage,
stills and music with newly shot interviews with some of the
original Amiga design team as well as with some of the biggest
names in video game development, publishing, music and
journalism from across the last 30 years!
The Amiga featured some truly stunning games and many of the
creators of those games appear in The Amiga Years movie such as
Eric Chahi (Another World), Bullfrog (Syndicate, Populous), Paul
Cuisset (Flashback), Martin Edmondson (Shadow of the Beast),
Team 17, Magnetic Fields, Factor 5, DICE, Cinemaware and many
many more!
It will be released in September 2016 on DVD and BluRay and
available in both Standard and Special Editions.
Quotes
General Manager of FunstockRetro.co.uk, Andy Pearson quoted:
"I am a huge fan of the original film and like many other
viewers was eager for the creators to expand more on the
individual sections of the movie - especially on the Amiga! They
have searched far and wide to make this as extensive as it can
possibly be and the fact the running time for "The Amiga Years"
is the same as the original movie (which covered a whole host of
systems) shows the level of detail they have gone into!"
Producer & Co-Director Anthony Caulfield said:
“The Commodore Amiga reset the previous boundaries, the very
exploration of what was possible in itself led to an incredibly
important and pioneering era for the games industry where
skilled developers from across the world were able to strive for
new innovations, set free by this incredible technology. When
making this movie we discovered the blood, sweat and tears but
also the sheer passion and love involved in creating the Amiga,
as well as learning the machine’s true heritage, as the people
behind it had already contributed hugely to the industry at that
point! Once the Amiga was released in 1985 we were also
fascinated in exactly what the developers and other users from
around the world who experienced it truly thought when they got
to grips with it, how did it change their development, what
opportunities did the computer give them and what effects did
that have and perhaps continue to have on the industry today?”
Fellow Producer & Co-Director Nicola Caulfield said:
“In our previous film From Bedrooms to Billions, for running
time reasons we could not explore the Amiga era as deeply as we
wanted to, and always felt that it would work as a standalone
feature documentary. Therefore, we have filmed a whole new set
of interviews to create a standalone, immersive and highly
nostalgic film that really explores why the release of the
Commodore Amiga and the era that soon followed was a key period
in the evolution of video games.”
Jason Kingsley OBE, TIGA Chairman and CEO & Creative Director,
Rebellion, comments:
“It is hugely encouraging to see such continued demand for high
quality reportage of our industry’s cultural heritage. “
“Another enthralling film that covers what can genuinely be
called a paradigm shift in how games were made, and how
technological progress began to transform a bedroom hobby into a
complex global artform.”