From Bedrooms to Billions

[Mayhem]

The first showing was last night, and it went down very well with the audience

Bum was a bit numb by the end mind you heh... it was about 140 minutes long!

[rowan]

Came to this late, I'd vaguely followed the thread in the background & only recently looked at some of the preview clips & immediately ordered the finished product.
It looks very well made.

It reminds me of an up to date video version of this.

[techno12]

I went to the showing the other night as well.

Really enjoyed it, though the last hour dragged a bit (loads of boring stuff about eduction etc).

Jeff's bit about wasting 7 quid (Seven Quid!) on Bug Byte's shite version of Asteroids was hilarious.

Some vintage clips I hadn't seen as well (I thought I'd seen everything).

Couldn't stay for the panel as had to travel across London to check into hotel. Who did I miss?

[tufty]

loads of boring stuff about eduction

Looks like you could have done with a bit more of that :)

[gilesgoat]

For the first time in my life I had the opportunity to meet the Floating Head of Kevin Thoms (tm) attached to the rest of the body .. and he even talks !

[c64audio]

Extreme case of "MISSING BEARD ERROR!" though.

[OX mkII]

For the first time in my life I had the opportunity to meet the Floating Head of Kevin Thoms (tm) attached to the rest of the body .. and he even talks !

Only now he doesn't come with the original floating hair of the floating head of Kevin Toms.

[techno12]

loads of boring stuff about eduction

Looks like you could have done with a bit more of that

Lol I blame my 4" screen on my mobile - plus the few beers I'd had!

I'm normally anal about spelling, and contribute to the Apostrophe Police thread (took a photo of a good one in Ibiza the other week!)

I'll join in the Kevin Toms discussion - was surprised they didn't show a cover featuring the infamous 'floating head'. Maybe they thought we'd seen enough over the years!

[tufty]

Lol I blame my 4" screen on my mobile - plus the few beers I'd had!

I'm normally anal about spelling, and contribute to the Apostrophe Police thread

Yeah, I know. Wouldn't have bothered being unpleasant otherwise :)

[bcass]

This is out now: http://www.frombedroomstobillions.com

Backers get free access to the download/streaming versions, so I watched it last night. Overall, I think it's an excellent summary of events, although there are people I would have liked to have heard from who didn't appear in the film. Maybe they appear in the Extras disc, which is longer than the actual film (which is already long at neary 2 and a half hours). I'd also rather have had a bit less business chat from the money men and a bit more game chat from devs. Whoever did the audio needs a bollocking though, as the music segments are stupidly loud compared to the interview audio, I was constantly reaching for the volume buttons to balance it out. The education bit (which is the last 20 mins, not the last hour) I thought was a nice touch, and showed how it's all coming full circle, with the creatives, not the money men, taking back control again.

[Junosix]

There is some good trivia in the extras.

I'd have preferred it to be a bit more geeky and behind-the-scenes in terms of development and stories about what went on. Also there was criminally little focus on the ST/Amiga era although I can understand why as it wasn't as explosive a period as the 8-bit and PlayStation stuff that happened either side of it. The talking heads shots were well-filmed (and ace in hi-def) but the rest was a bit too reliant on mawkish pop songs with Ken Burns effect slideshows of magazines and screenshot.

It was good, but I didn't really learn anything new.

[Junosix]

By the way, another doc that looks interesting is this: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ve ... game-sound

[OX mkII]

Hmmn, wonder why they changed from the Oli Frey cover art?

[merman]

Hmmn, wonder why they changed from the Oli Frey cover art?

Oli Frey art was a bonus for backers.

[bcass]

mawkish pop songs

I was surprised about the use of pop songs actually. It was a bit cliche. Given that they had a soundtrack specially made for the film (to be released on CD) by various VGM composers, I'd have thought that music would have been a better fit.