My dad came home one night with a C60 containing copies of these six games, stating that they probably wouldn't play on my 48k as they came from the new machine. I felt swindled even by this freebie! The tape was a nice TDK AD though so I quickly recopied them onto a 25p market special cassette (I never actually threw out anything so they remained in the collection even if I never played them again) and put something decent on the TDK (a recording of the latest Talk Talk album I borrowed IIRC), so all was not lost 😂 Only Oh Mummy sticks in my mind, mainly because the CPC version a friend had was decent. This one played OK but the graphics were shoddy - but TBH it's hard to get Amidar wrong!
I can't remember the titles, but do remember currys/dixons supplied a freebie disk. Although mine was corrupted so I formatted it anyway (before returning the +3 due to the sound issue early models had).
The amstrad disk was Mailstrom (Probably the weakest), NOMAD, Daley Thomson's supertest (48k version), Gift from the gods and cosmic wartoad. Me and my brother destroyed the included SJS-1 using supertest over the course of about a week as was tradition. Personally my fave was NOMAD. Could never get my head around Mailstrom...
God they were crap. Luckily my spectrum 48k came with some paxman leisure / prism compilations that were a bit more interesting. Can you remember that 50 games on one cassette compilation?? There were some surprisingly good games on that as I remember!!
I've seen the 50 game cassette at times on some of the Facebook selling groups. Never got round to buying it (usually I keep missing it!). I'll keep my eye on it to see what come up.
My dad came home one night with a C60 containing copies of these six games, stating that they probably wouldn't play on my 48k as they came from the new machine. I felt swindled even by this freebie! The tape was a nice TDK AD though so I quickly recopied them onto a 25p market special cassette (I never actually threw out anything so they remained in the collection even if I never played them again) and put something decent on the TDK (a recording of the latest Talk Talk album I borrowed IIRC), so all was not lost 😂
Only Oh Mummy sticks in my mind, mainly because the CPC version a friend had was decent. This one played OK but the graphics were shoddy - but TBH it's hard to get Amidar wrong!
Indeed never has something so cheap (or free) been so bad.
Sheesh. I'm glad they upped their game for the +3 pack-ins.
I can't remember the titles, but do remember currys/dixons supplied a freebie disk. Although mine was corrupted so I formatted it anyway (before returning the +3 due to the sound issue early models had).
The amstrad disk was Mailstrom (Probably the weakest), NOMAD, Daley Thomson's supertest (48k version), Gift from the gods and cosmic wartoad.
Me and my brother destroyed the included SJS-1 using supertest over the course of about a week as was tradition.
Personally my fave was NOMAD. Could never get my head around Mailstrom...
@@spodula Surprised the SJS-1 lasted the day to be honest!
God they were crap. Luckily my spectrum 48k came with some paxman leisure / prism compilations that were a bit more interesting. Can you remember that 50 games on one cassette compilation?? There were some surprisingly good games on that as I remember!!
I've seen the 50 game cassette at times on some of the Facebook selling groups. Never got round to buying it (usually I keep missing it!). I'll keep my eye on it to see what come up.
wow, i didn't know oh mummy is on the spectrum, and is treasure island roland ahoy?
It probably is to be honest. Although I'm sure it's better on other platforms!