From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years

Release date: 2016-05-10
Votes: 23
Genres: Documentary
A feature documentary that explores the influence of the Commodore Amiga and how it took video game development, music and publishing to a whole new level and changed the video games industry forever.
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