From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years!

About the movie

The Commodore Amiga reset the previous boundaries, the very exploration of what was possible in itself led to an incredibly important and pioneering era where skilled developers were able to strive for new innovations, set free by this incredible technology. By the late 1980s and early 1990s many countries around the world saw a new wave of developers entering the video games industry, joining many of those original pioneers to work to push video game creation even further. Games from across the world were now readily available everywhere and the UK was suddenly becoming a real global player emerging truly out of its original cottage industry roots of the 8 bit era. From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years explores the origins, design and release of the Commodore Amiga and its impact on a rapidly expanding games industry. The film looks at the Demo scene that was bigger and more influencial than ever, where a rapidly expanding and emerging internet saw sceners thanks to demos among other things playing a major, crucial part in helping to grow the overall interest of programming and video games. Musicians really began to flourish, significantly boosted by the flexibility and power of machines such as the Commodore Amiga and The Magazine Industry for the video games industry saw a whole new breed of Journalist emerge. Though technically still in its infancy the video games industry did now have a few years under its belt with established genres of games now recognised and understood and so The Amiga Years! became an era that saw some truly incredible innovations that drove game development, music and publishing to a whole new level and changed the video game industry forever!