FROM BEDROOMS TO BILLIONS: THE AMIGA YEARS! "Early Games"Clip [HD]

[@odlotowy]

Amiga - best computer ever. I miss you Amiga

[@ncf1]

the graphics for Defender Of The Crown still look stunning today.

[@oxygen120]

I had the privilege to enjoy 3 Amiga's computers that i had in the 90' : Amiga 1000, 500, 1200. I really miss those days and to this Amiga great computer, I wish Amiga computers will come back and will replace all PC & Apple computers in the market. :-)

[@doctorsocrates4413]

it is 2023 and i still own 3 amiga 500s...love them.

[@KaitainCPS]

I had a similar experience seeing DOTC running on an Amiga for the first time in a small independent shop. I guess it was probably...1986? I don't think I'd seen an Amiga up close before and I was just amazed. Love at first sight, and the very first encounter of a long and beautiful relationship...

[@Highlander1518]

KingKaitain The Amiga came out in 87. Still the best machine I’ve ever owned. I miss it dearly. Such great memories. Oh, I love your avatar by the way!

[@FredrikRambris]

RJ was involved in DoTC briefly. Differences grew and he left the project.

[@GhOsT76GR]

Some of my best games was: Sensible Soccer, TV Sports basketball, Maniac mansion, Monkey island 1,2, Premiere, Super cars 2, Lotus 1,2,3, Nitro, Dune 2, Arachnophobia, Another world, Flashback, The chaos engine, Cannon fodder 1,2, Alien Breed 1,2 ?, Gods and MANY many others that i forgot now. My best gaming years.

[@stuarttisnower5364]

Yes, the Commodore Amiga was way to advanced for its time, but I do miss it. Had the Commodore Amiga HD 2000.

[@LieutLaww]

Really looking forward to this :D

[@JeffSereno]

Gah, the anticipation is killing me - I must see more - MORE!

[@MrJoshua]

Can't wait for this to be released! :)

[@markorollo.]

i had defender of the crown, one of my favourite games

[@lurkerrekrul]

The main problem with arcade to home conversions was that the software companies usually hired inexperienced/incompetent programmers to handle the conversions, and even when they had decent programmers, the coinop companies offered virtually no help so they had to basically work from scratch. That's not to say that I think every home system could replicate every arcade game, but probably 99% of then could have been much better than they were if more care and resources had been allocated to them. I mean who doubts that the Amiga could have handled a version of Outrun that looked almost pixel perfect instead of the putrid mess that got released? I also feel the need to mention that I *LOVE* Jim Sachs' artwork. I used to collect everything I could find by him. It's too bad that he wasn't able to make his 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea game, or finish Time Crystal.

[@pkj77]

i looove Defender of the crown miss my AMIGA 500

[@phillipzx3754]

And not ONE mention of the man who made it all possible. Not once did I hear the name "Jay Miner" from ANYONE. Without Jay, there'd be no Amiga. I sold all my Amiga's long ago, except for one. I kept my Amy 3000/40. It had a 386 BB, a Picasso graphics card and "Shapeshifter" (from Chrisian Bauer) installed for Mac emulation. About 5 years ago a guy offered me a pile of money for it, so out the door she went. And while I'm at it, let's give Dave Haynie a bit of credit too. :-)

[@goeuldi]

4:29 Nice cover there.

[@MattHalpain]

I love the Amiga. I had the chance to buy an Amiga or a sega genesis when I was a kid. I chose the sega genesis as my step dad would not let me buy an amiga because at the time he said Amiga was out of business.

[@RainerK.]

You didn't have a choice then.

[@Foebane72]

What year was it?

[@RetroDawn]

That happened in 94. An Amiga was still the better choice. A full computer with lots of software.

[@MattHalpain]

@@RetroDawn yes, I agree the Amiga was a better deal for the money. My stepDad (the one that I earned the money from) would not let me buy the Amiga.

[@fdameron]

I really miss the Amiga. The feel of the GUI is still not matched by anything else.

[@iainmclaughlan1557]

I still have my A600 set up and use it about once a week

[@RainerK.]

It's 2016, is it out yet?

[@TheGuruMeditation]

Great clip guys. Your movie is going to rock! We are PSYCHED!!!

[@LordRustyMcAlpin]

of course it was going to be time consuming we wanted perfection as best we can get and thanks

[@nicklaskowalski]

How nice to see ex-Sony Shahid from Relay.fm’s Remaster podcast in the movie but a little disappointing to not see his name shown on-screen when you first see him interviewed 😳. All other participants get named apart from him! Wha’ daaaaa??!!

[@fandenivoldsk]

I personally think that many arcade conversions on the Amiga and Atari ST where lacking in the gameplay compared to how well the C64 and ZX Spectrum conversions where. Not always, of course, but a lot of times.

[@KaitainCPS]

+fandenivoldsk Actually DOTC is itself a good example of a title that ended up playing better on the 8-bit machines, but in that case it was because they were later conversions of the 16-bit editions, and the designers had time to introduce a number of innovations. The jousting was better, the sieges were more complex (with the greek fire and disease projectiles), the swordfighting had better mechanics, and I seem to recall the strategic choices in the army battles were more meaningful. Of course, they didn't look anywhere as good, but the C64 disk version of DOTC was the best one I remember playing.

[@RetroDawn]

@@KaitainCPS The Atari ST version had all the same enhancements as the others, including C64, but looked much closer to the Amiga version. I had both systems and the game on both, BITD, but I prefered to play on Amiga (and still do), due to the atmosphere created by the music/sound/graphics.

[@RetroDawn]

I could see that for C64 vs Atari ST, but not Amiga vs and nor Speccy vs any. Not for arcade games. I'd love to see any examples you'd like to share.

[@silkee]

None of the links work anymore. I don't have a blu-ray player so I'm after a digital download purchase but I'd like to actually give some money towards this rather than torrent it.

[@005AGIMA]

2 people had an ST

[@blazer666del]

Hope the film has the Demo Scene and BBSes ..Phone phreaking and hacking...I used to call the USA (MA Bell free phone numbers) then dial back to the UK so I could get free phone calls...Fantastic!!

[@SE09uk]

I hated that fuckin marble game!

[@steven-vn9ui]

1 viewer never had an Amiga

[@stewartkee6115]

Defender of the crown? I played it when it came out and this is the first time I heard anyone compliment it. All graphics, zero gameplay. They talk about the graphics but that felt more like a con than anything else. The gameplay was terrible. Everyone said so at the time.

[@blazer666del]

Defender of the Crown was a terrible game. All graphics and no game play. 4 out of 10 It was just a load of stills and animation that you couldn't interact with.. Classic case of "Oooooh Ahhhhh"..All smoke and mirrors. F/A 18 interceptor was ground breaking..

[@rabautios]

+Derek Tweedie well, it was a video disc game. BTW, for Interceptor I bought a 68010 CPU :)

[@iainmclaughlan1557]

I still play Defender of the Crown, being playing it since 1992