AMSTRAD CPC - 30 Games Considered Perfect
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2023
- Join me on a nostalgic journey through my own top 30 favourite Amstrad CPC games! From classic platformers to exhilarating adventures, these titles have a unique place in my gaming history and continue to elicit nostalgic sentiments. Join the conversation as we recall the unique gameplay, memorable characters, and joy these games gave to our lives. So, dust out your Amstrad CPC, grab your favourite joystick, and join us in reliving the enchantment of these timeless masterpieces!
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I remember Harrier Attack, Oh Mummy! and Roland In The Caves coming with my Amstrad - fantastic memories.
Hammered all of those. Used to love ejecting on Harrier Attack! 😂
Having a green monitor, i feel sad that I missed these beautiful colors.. Best palette of the era.
It probably saved your eyes 👀
The Amstrad colours were super vivid. The C64 pallete was at best muddy, but those side scrolling shooters were still awesome.
The CPC color are the best you're right, so vivid!
@@kyorin6526 I would prefer a palette between c64 and cpc. Cpc was too vivid and c64 was too dull
Yeah, can’t be beaten for the time. Just look at Spindizzy, Head over Heels and Get Dexter.
I love all three of the great 8 bits. I had a C64 myself but I could appreciate that all three machines had their great titles. I played my friends Amstrad and Speccy's all the time. If only to find the best versions of our favourite games. Great memories.
Fruity Frank, Sorcery , Hunchback and Sir Lancelot. I never had a CPC,but my youth club had one,and that's the four I loved playing.
Fruity Frank can stand tall against any other game programmed by mankind.
Although im more of a spectrum guy in 8bits, I do love both CPC and c64. It just happens to be the CPC 's turn in the rotation on my retro desk so yeah, I will be playing all these on my 1084 monitor. I miss those simpler times.
Every word 😉
I would have had Sorcery and Boulderdash on that list too.
Great games! Thanks for the reminder and I agree 👍🏻
Sorcery was awesome
Boulderdash what a classic
Huge difference, no one cares about what your list is 🤡
Batman the Movie. Best game I ever saw on the Amstrad. I remember seeing this as a kid and thinking it was impossible to make any game look that good.
The cathedral level is exceptional. How did they make it look so good ❤️
I had the CPC 464 and today liking this video made 464 likes, in some small way my life feels quietly fulfilled giving a thankful nod in appreciation to your video, many rainy scottish days , harrier attack and more mentioned here allowed me many of my best fun filled hours of my very young life when i started my computing journey .niiiiice.
Thanks for watching and thanks for the memories. 464 👍🏻
Thanks for really making this system and its library come alive for me. As someone with no connection at all to this side of the 8-bit sphere, your enthusiasm genuinely gets me hyped to jump in to a system I would have hardly known about. This is what youtube is for - great channels for passionate gamers.
Thanks for sharing this feedback. That’s my aim, to reach people that had never heard about these wonderful 8bits. I sit there sometimes watching vids about computers I’ve never heard of. I can also literally sit there for hours if I’m not careful and watch people restoring old consoles and computers. TH-cam from that perspective is amazing. Please spread the word and share this vid with other like minded retro enthusiasts ❤️
I can't argue with your favourites!! I would have added Way of the Exploding Fist.
I went with IK+ over WOTEF. It just grabs me more
Well, this has opened my eyes. Amazing.
Finally, a video people like 🤣
@@ClassicReplay I like them chap.
Nice selection.
I never had a CPC but when I was a kid I always loved formers screenshots in game tests due to its vivid palette.
I put so many hours into Bruce Lee. Fantastic game. There were a few games I'd forgotten in that list, so was a great watch thank you. I'd probably throw fire ant, Barry Mcguigan boxing and Robin Hood in there for me personally.
All good games there, lot's of good memories. Thanks for watching.
'Super Robin Hood' one thing about the Amstrad, when they got a game right, boy, was it good! Would have liked to see Rebelstar, Nexus and ATF.
Not sure about Nexus, but Rebelstar is brilliant
@ClassicReplay yep Warhammer 40k tabletop came out and i got it for Xmas, but i preferred playing Rebelstar! Lol
Most of them are my favorites too. I may add Green Beret, Sabre Wulf, Knight Lore and Secret Armor of Antiriad.
I know what you mean about Green Beret, but far from arcade perfect.
My Mum bought a 6128 (colour) back in the day, and I used to spend hours and hours pretty much playing this set of games.
OMG Robocop was so fast on the CPC
The best of times ;-)
First game I played on the CPC was Sorcery ... I owned an MSX and it was at my best friend's house ... Man, to this day I'm still jealous ^^
I felt like this when I first saw and played on a friends NEO GEO CD. I’d never seen graphics like it.
Some great choices on there and many I agree with for my own list. Some personal favourites of mine not included are Prince of Persia, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2, Chase HQ, X-Out, Treasure Island and Fantasy World Dizzy and Batman. Had so much fun with these games.
Thanks for sharing! Prince of Persia is brilliant
I'm happy you mentioned Arkanoid. It's a simple to play game that's not on the 64 maxi carousel. Never mind, I can make a new firmware with some of the games you've reminded us that are great or underated. 4 super tough games on all 3 machines, Speccy, 64 and CPC, are Exolon, Spiky Harold, Cauldron 2 and Frostbyte. They are'hair-pullingly-out' annoying.😊
Thrust was an incredible game….loved Target Renegade and Bombjack too
Three of the best ever there.
Ah man, this is a great list. I played many of them for houuuuurs.
Barbarian, Dizzy, Gauntlet (played in co-op with my sister, when we got to the end of the tape we just rewound it and pressed play),, Way Of The Exploding Fist (shame I never played WotEF 2 on anything other than the C64), Oh Mummy...
...spent so much time playing Bombjack too. and Spy vs Spy. And a type-in knockoff of Boulderdash called Splatch!
So many memories playing these. 42 years up to my neck in playing and writing games; zero regrets.
Mission accomplished, core memory dump ☺️ my sister was amazing at video games, plus my cousin she was amazing at Space Invaders. I think they have both grown out of gaming now, but loved those days of watching them play and reach levels I’d never seen before. In fact I miss visiting the arcade and watching and learning from people and the best strategies. This made me a better gamer and I realised there was techniques you needed to learn, but sometimes your own style could be successful. All those games you mentioned also featured in my early life as well. Great times.
@@ClassicReplay 40 years later my sister still plays, mostly on xbox. They got us early.
The hours I put into Bombjack..... Thrust, Chuckie Egg, Gauntlet, JSW2, 3D Starfighter and Infiltrator were great too. I quite liked the Bubble Bobble port but it hasn't aged well. Games that could have been good if they weren't so bloody hard? Stormlord and Cauldron! Arkanoid was truly excellent but like any port it really needed a paddle controller.
I'm happy I'm not the only person who liked Infiltrator 😉
Shadow of the beast, commander Blood, Eagle's rider... what a ride !
Loved Arkanoid on the Amiga 500.
does anyone remember Showdown in Tombstone city? I absolutely loved it, was the best shootout challenge for us kids back in the day....oh, and of course Daley Tompsons Decathlon....
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My Dad would take me and my brother to Toys R Us back in the late 80's. We always got to pick a budget game each. One time he picked a random game we'd never heard of, turned out to be Feud. No instructions, nothing. And we had no idea what we were doing.
Years later perhaps 1990, I decided to load it up again and got hooked! Finished it eventually! Super challenging game but, once you've played it so much you know where every single ingredient is by heart, it's do-able.
Feud is up there with Barbarian, Renegade, Croco-Magneto, Saracen, Jet Set Willy 2, Roland In Time, Anarchy, Terminus, Pyjamarama, Deathstalker etc. Definitely one of the best CPC games of all time. I prefer the original Dizzy over it's sequels. Something about it was just really simple and appealing yet really challenging game!
Great memories and a great dad. Feud was definitely a wonderful game for the price and is still a good challenge that not many have mastered till this day. Thanks ☺️
@@ClassicReplay Yes most people I've talked to who played it, said they never finished it - they gave up. The game did feel like it was cheating sometimes, with your enemy appearing at the most frustrating times. Over many months, I learned the strategy of a certain handful of damaging spells, and crowd control spells, and just grinded until I finally managed to kill him!
Such a simple game as Oh Mummy, and we spent hours and hours on it!
A very fine list, thanks for taking me back there ... I remember there was a French exchange student we had at primary school (I think the Amstrad was pretty big in France?) and I lent her my copy of R-Type, which I really enjoyed, and then when she left she gave me the cassette back but instead of my awesome shmup I was left with an Edith Piaff tape. Yes, je regrette very much!
Since no-one's mentioned it though, I'd like to put forward the CPC version of Aliens as my favourite game from back then. You cycled through playing all the marines from the film, exploring and watching out for alerts on your tracker when xenomorphs arrived ... Me and dad used to play it for hours, mapping out the ship. Very happy memories.
Played most of them. Would put the Code masters rugby game. Ghostbusters 2. Silkworm in there too. A great list. Nostalgia childhood trip. Thank you
Thanks for sharing!
I loved playing Ikari Warriors on the Atari ST and it’s amazing how good it looks on the Amstrad CPC. 👍
Atari ST brilliant computer. So many great games. I had the STFM early 2000, great fun. Today I’m on the hunt for a 1040 STE
Commandos theme tune is the tune Chase from the 1981 film Hundra.
My God, I had completely forgotten about Avenger! I honestly can't remember where I played it, but I am pretty sure it wasn't on my own c64, so it was probably by a friend or at the library or something like that.
Nostalgic memory unlocked = Job done 👍🏻
Never saw the draw of Joe Blade but maybe I'm missing something, and I'll let you off "Oh! Mummy!" as a guilty pleasure/nostalgia pick.
You're not alone in your assessment of "Who Dares Wins II." It's actually my favourite game on the platform to the extent that I went back and managed to complete it for the first time recently. I think the flip screen benefits it and makes it a somewhat more tactical game.
Anyway some great picks there. Thanks for sharing.
Loved Joe Blade. It’s a better appreciated game on the ZX Spectrum than the Amstrad CPC 🤷🏻♂️ thanks for watching
Ikari was my Favorite on Amstrad too!! what a cool game!
Great List! Harrier Attack and Roland on the Ropes kept me going for many hours.... Until I got some Proper Games that is... And Gauntlet, LOVED IT!
ELITE was a game that I have to be honest, I never expected to ever like... But a Friend introduced me, I liked what I saw... And after I got used to teh controls... And switched from trying to play with Joystick and instead playing by keyboard... I literally lost almost 2-3 years of my life simply playing ELITE!!!!
I even had ELITE for the Atari ST... That how much I loved it!
Truly a great list, Even your honourable mentions!
Agree with everything you say. It’s exactly the same way things played out for me. Elite was amazing and still incredibly immersive today 👍🏻
@@ClassicReplay Oh indeed! I even have "ELITE DANGEROUS" though I am not confident enough on that yet to go full on Multiplayer... lol!
Still love the OG though, Great tip for the 8 Bits... BUY A MINING LASER... If you tap your fire key instead of hold it, It fires as fast as a Pulse Laser but will wipe out a Thargoid in only 4-5 shots!!! The WEAKEST Weapon in the game is more powerful than the Expensive Military Laser's...
great shouts.... i loved both emlin Hughes & Who Dares wins 2! Bomber Jack was a classic. You have great taste dude!
Cheers my friend
Rescue on fractalus was one of my favourites used to play it for hours
The donkey kong arcade conversion was also spot on
100% two great games there. Loved it when you landed and chap bangs on the spaceship door 🤣
As a C64 kid, i know very little of the Amstrad but I'm very impressed with the graphical quality demonstrated here (Barbarian looks ace). If ONLY the Amstrad had a better sound chip.
I’ve heard the Amstrad Yamaha chip perform admirably
@@ClassicReplay Have you done a video demonstrating the best tracks? I'd be interested in watching (and hearing) that.
It was great at doing colours, and there were some really good games. I don't think it was originally thought of as a gaming computer, no hardware sprites, and bad scrolling. But you are correct, my biggest beef with the Amstrad is the soundchip. Yes it can be forced to make Sid emulation, but it comes at a cost. The soundchip itself simply can't do all the waveforms the Sid is able to. However check out some of the newest Amstrad demos, they are amazing, yes even compared to the c64, except the sound of course. A better non Sid soundchip would be the Pokey in Atari, it really has character, and sounds in some aspects just as good as the Sid.
Thanks for the good memories with my old Amstrad. I also remember one of my favorite game: inertie (ubi soft) 🕹️
Inertie, I played it I’m sure I did, was it a shooter?
I`ve got a Amstrad in past ,but only played Freddy hardest from that list.I remeber:Krakout,Saboteur 2,Kung fu,Wizard lair,Moon Cresta.Mach 3,Revolution.
I love old Freddy Hardest. Moon Cresta is the only one I never played on the Amstrad.
Some great picks, mate. As fantastic as Ikari is, I prefer Who Dares Wins II, for reasons I can't really justify. My absolute favourite on the Amstrad and one element I particularly enjoyed was the more tactical play introduced by flip-screen. Actually went back and completed recently for the first time without cheating.
I can’t relate personally. Ikari takes some beating, especially two player. But yes, WDW2 is next in the cassette recorder 😉
On the strength of this fun video, I am subscribed. Wish we had wonderful 8 bitters like Amstrad, ZX Spectrum, MSX etc here in the US. But thanks to you guys putting videos out and emulation, yeah. I can see why these machines are beloved.
Terrific 👍🏻 thank you. You guys had the ColecoVision, C64, Atari and all those brilliant Epyx games and NTSC 😉
True, we did. But you guys had them too. We never knew of or touched, the vast majority of us, the European and Japanese 8 bit classics.@@ClassicReplay
P47, Smash TV, Prince of Persia, Super Cars and Audiogenic World Class Rugby were some of my favourites but some good games on this list
P47 was well done, always niggled me that there was no ending and you just looped. Super Cars was a bit slow if I’m honest, but I still enjoyed it. World Class Rugby was brilliant, but Speccy port and preferred it on 16bit. Prince of Persia is pure gold 👍
Chucky egg 🥚 was the brilliant omg was hard and very frustrating but loved it,commando was amazing too
100% can’t disagree! Great memories and thanks for watching 👍🏻
Ikari Warriers was great. Harrier Attack! was the first game I played on it. Quite a few I've never heard of. Yie Ar Kung Fu looks so modern.
Jet set willy and 2 were great
Delighted to see Thrust and Oh Mummy! on here. I am too young to have played the Amstrad in its heyday, so I played whatever was available on this bizarro hand-me-down system, and those two REALLY became time sinks for me. My sister and I found Bruce Lee exciting as well, but it was way too hard for us. :v
Thanks for this video and those great memories. I did not try all described games but I was really hooked on Ikari Warriors when I was a teen !
I think it might be the most loved game on the Amstrad. Came out a whole two years before the C64 and Speccy
@@ClassicReplay
I also spent hours on Crafton & Xunk, Sorcery, MGT, Boulder Dash and Head Over Heels
@asthalis Amazing games, great times
First video of yours I've seen (I think so anyway) and really enjoyed this. I was a Spectrum kid, also had a C64 a little later on but it's way too easy to overlook the Amstrad versions of so many games, which in many instances were better or the best you could get. It's a shame there were a lot of lazy Spectrum ports (which often, by default, ran more badly) but when the developers put in the effort on the CPC it so often paid off. Subbed =)
Cool, thanks! You're welcome :-) I agree, but games like Joe Blade, Myth and many more turned out to be highly playable despite being finished in monochrome.
Elite, Starglider, Tau Ceti, Codename Mat.... I think I was one of the first Space computer pilots.
I was probably an early pioneer too. I played Star Wars from Atari, then Star Trek and later Space Shuttle on the Atari 800.
Great memories 😊
Thanks for watching 👍
This is pretty much my perfect list as well!
Cheers my friend 👍🏻
Some shared memories for me too. I also loved Thrust and Commando. Remember Starstrike and Rebelstar and the great adventure game Rigel’s Revenge?
Rigel’s Revenge was a great game. I never appreciated it as a kid. But yes, very well done and a budget game at that. The others are awesome as well.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 mate it was like you were in my bedroom when i was 14 or 15 lol yeh loads of good games and yes Amstrad had a lot of surprises. i always wanted a C64 mainly because of the 2 joy stick ports for 2 player games such as Spy vs Spy lol me and my mate played against each other flat out a few years before the CPC was ever thought of so that Christmas when i got the CPC i was a little gutted lol but said nothing except thank you and how happy i was but deep inside still a little sad but green screen monitor as well i fell in love with the CPC464 and the following November for my birthday they got me the modulator and holly s*^t i was blown away with the colour from my little Amstrad portable TV it was like a new computer all over again lol. Anyway sorry for going on one but i only come across your chann here now tonight and as soon as the first game came on Arkanoid i hit like and subbed 🤣🤣🤣 mate I'm still playing that now on steam and it was the CPC version that i fell in love with because it was as perfect as anyone could of had it, i was surprised Hyper sports wasn't on? but like you say personal favourite, Ikari Warriors! That was the first game that i ever clocked on my CPC and my absolute favourite on that machine and again for 8 bit it blew everything else out of the water you were spot on with that comment on that game absolutely Bang On! well i will be checking more of your vids now and thank you fantastic little video on an old family friend the CPC464 👌
Best reply ever! Very nostalgic I was living every word. We basically had the same journey in regard to early computing. I bet we even had the same wallpaper and posters 🤣 thanks for watching and hope you enjoy my other vids
yes i was checking another one last night and back when i was a kid i think i was in boots and i bought a game called Feud @@ClassicReplay 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 again mate what i thought in my head when i first played it was like Word for Word what you said about it some 30 0dd years latter lol i have Feud sitting here right now its another favourite of mine and yes i think it was £1.99 or something because that was how i could afford it then, i sort of wish they would do a little remaster of that game. i never played Desert Fox but i loved Tobruk! it looked similar in your video last night, I think Death wish 3 was good on CPC lol i think that was the first ever game that i see guts on 🤣🤣 when using the bazooka it would just leave a mess lol
A few I'd add:
- Sacred Armour Of Antiriad
- X-Out
- Trailblazer
- Split Personalities
- Tubaruba
- Fairlight
- Astro Marine Corps (AMC)
- Wizzball
- Roland In Time
- Jet Set Willy 2
All good games from memory. Thanks
Glad you mention avenger, it's a great game even though i don't undersand the life jauge system
Nebulus, Sorcery, Prohibition, and you miss all the ERE Interactive and Lankhor games such as Mortevielle Manor ...
Nebulus is a very good game, frustrating sometimes getting knocked down, but I recall having fun with it. I never could complete it, did you? I might have to go back to it. Prohibition I was never a fan, I preferred operation Wolf and other such games. But I did later play it on the Amiga and enjoyed it a bit more. So I reckon if I’d have stuck with it things might have been different. ERE I think is French, so I probably missed out on most of those games if not in English. Very sad to this day that Iron Lord was never translated to English
@@ClassicReplay OMG I didn't know that for Iron Lord, what a pity... And for ERE, Teenage Queen, Captain Blood, Crafton & Xunk, SRAM, Macadam Bumper? You missed all that ? And for Lankhor, same for Alive, Fugitive (mode 1 and 8+ colors!), Black Sect and Mortevielle Manor ?
Green Beret, Desperado,Saboteur, Prohibition, Fruit Machine, Manic Miner,... buff! great games!!
I’m not sure I’d say “great” for Green Beret on the Amstrad, but had lots of fun with that list 👍🏻
I had these 2 games that I can't find anywhere. One I don't remember the name, but the character has a jet pack. It was moving slowly by walking but pretty fast when flying. I have not been able to complete the game, I was not sure what the goal was. I still have the melody in my head. Another one was called "Collapse" I think, it was a platform where you (looked like a bear on the cover) needed to collect some items from the screen. If anyone can identify these games based on my crude description, that would be great!
My only regrets from having this as a kid is using the monitor and not exploiting the programming features.
No regrets 😉 never too late ⏰
I've only recently got my first Amstrad and I'm lucky to have a 6128 with a gotek, man these games are amazing. Don't get me wrong some for the specy are still better but the CPC often does it much better :). Great list you did here too.
Cheers my friend. Your first Amstrad 6128 with Gotek 🤯 my goodness! Very good machine. Have you tried Pinball Dreams yet and looked at the upcoming Vespertino and Street Fighter game
Also the new R-Type 128K designed for the 6128
I've got both of them on my usb stick will try both suggestions over weekend 😁😁. I love the way the gotek also makes the drive head movement sound. Had the disc drive on my specy +3 but the one here didn't work. It's ok I'll probably fix it at some point anyway. I'm still super pleased for £198 with scary/sound lead and modern power supply 😃
Great vid dude id have included Combat School and Trantor the last stormtrooper if id done a list 👍🏻
Good memories of Combat School, but they messed up the first level and two player where you played against a friend. Apart from that a really enjoyable game.
Good solid list. Have to add Dan Dare, City Slicker and Batman 1989.
Good call! Never played City Slicker.
La abadía del crimen!! Better game of all games.
I'd say it was better than the equivalent mainstream efforts. The story and well thought out game design was brilliant.
I'd also put Batman and Jack the Nipper. Played IK+, Ikari Warriors and Laser Squad for days with my best friend. But my fave game was Get Dexter (Crafton & Xunk) which was absolutely perfect.
Good call! Did you ever try The Abbey of Crime 😉
Can't disagree with any of those
Happy days! Thanks for watching 👍🏻
Gryzor should really be on this list. As should be Crafton & Xunk (french name of Get Dexter), North and South, Defender of the crown, Mortevieille Manor, Billy la Banlieue, The 5th Axe, Zombie, and Sapiens.
My fav game of all time, Ikari on the CPC.
CPC and Arcade separated at birth ;-)
For myself, Slapfight, Xenon, The Trap Door and Silkworm and Head over Heels would be top 5..
Slap fight had a tiny screen, slow. Try the new Amstrad release Alcon 2020, ten times better. Xenon was way too slow on the CPC IMPO. HOH I agree is brilliant. Thanks for your suggestions 👍🏻
Missed this video even though my sub is set to all. I'd forgotten all about Joe Blade. Loved the graphics even though they were mono
Joe Blade is one of my favourite games. In the Speccy community it’s fondly remembered. On the Amstrad there’s hardly any love for it. Graphic whores if you ask me 😉 a brilliant game back in the day when you consider the price, music and challenge.
Also, the guy on the Barbarian cover art is Wolf from the 90s version of Gladiators :D
He was the Barbarian long before Wolf 🐺
That's a good list, because I mostly agree with it :)
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bar a couple I had all the games on your list and still have the amstrad up in dads loft - I need to dig it out
Do it… Do it… 😊
Despite its lack of popularity compared with the commodore 64 the Amstrad is surprisingly a great machine whose games are comparable to the commodore - that chase hq is undoubtebly better than the commie and ik+ and emlyn hughes are pretty much the same. Its a wonder why this machine didn't get the notoriety it deserved when compared to the 64 (perhaps it was significantly more expensive to the 64) with its much superior color pallet.
It’s no surprise to me and the 3 million others that owned one. I’ve said for years that IK+ on the CPC plays a mean fighting game and ChaseHQ leads the pack. Emlyn Hughes is a bit slower, but that’s because it shares Speccy code and mode 0 graphics. It worked out to be more affordable when you consider you needed a tv for the C64. I think the C64 was ultimately the better games machine, but the Amstrad was the best all rounder.
I always hated the speccys colour clash thing. The games looked better, but half the screen green etc, the other half yellow. It was a no for me.
U.N. Squadron , Deflector, spindizzy, so many to choose from. Amstrad had some really great games and a few terrible ones too (Out Run...etc!)
Some people enjoyed Outrun 🤷🏻♂️
Is this a re-upload? I'm sure I watched this yesterday. 😕
Yep, I had to fix a few issues and errors. A better watch now.
@@ClassicReplay Ah, right you are. I'm not going mad, then. 😀
Nice to see Avenger getting some love.... A very good game (superior to the original albeit not even the same type of game).... Naturally impossible to argue with your number one. Ikari Warriors on the CPC was just pure class.
Never played avenger, but I remember being obsessed with ninjas at the age of eleven! So had the poster (an ad cut out of Amstrad action) on my wall.
*_NOSTALGIA!!!!_*
Great games, played for hours on my friend's cpc6128. I still think Robocop was better on the speccy, having finished both cpc and zx versions.
The problem with the ZX Spectrum version is it's too easy. Completed it on my first go.
Miss Tau Ceti, but great list.
Tau Ceti is not for everyone, but I liked it. Academy impo was better though
Tau Ceti! Amazing game, flying the ship to those Jump Gates!
here are my faves:
3D Star Fighter
American Turbo King
Barry McGuigan's Boxing
Batman
Batman the movie
Biggles
Bionic Commando
Black Tiger
Blade Warrior
Bridge It
Captain Dynamo
Castle Master 1
Chuckie Egg
City Slicker
Defenders of the Earth
Deliverance - Stormlord 2
Dizzy - Amstrad Action Special Edition
Dizzy - Prince of the Yolkfolk
Dizzy 4 - Magicland Dizzy
Finders Keepers
Flash Gordon
Glider Rider
Harrier Attack
Hobgoblin
HyperBowl
Jonah Barringtons Squash
Kikstart II
Killer Gorilla
Knight Lore
Maze Mania
Myth
Ninja Warriors, The
Oh Mummy
On The Run
Ping-Pong
Ranarama
Roland in the Caves
Roland on the Ropes
Spike In Transylvania
Stormlord
Striker - In The Crypt of Trogan
Sultan's Maze
Super Cycle
Super Gran
Super Hero
Super Soccer
Super Stunt Man
Thrust
Thrust 2
Titanic Blinky
Turbo the Tortoise
Vixen
Way of the Tiger, The
World Series Baseball
Supergran 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 thanks for sharing
@@ClassicReplay LOLOLOL
@@ClassicReplay I was young when I played it. lol
You just brought back memories of the tv show and family playing Super Gran 🤣
@@ClassicReplay LOL
Super Hang On, Ranarana, Bairds Tale, Spellbound, Spindizzy, Finders Keepers, Xor
oh i forgot Mata Hari that was a good game too :)
I just about recall that one, nice animation from memory, finished in Mode 1
Loved target renegade, but it was a shame the graphics didn't live up to the original.
It could have been a lot worse, Renegade 3 anyone 🤮
No Donkey Kong? the CPC version was pretty much arcade perfect.
I agree, brilliant conversation. Surprisingly Amstrad Action didn’t rate it that highly 🤷🏻♂️
How could you not include "Cop Out"? It was the best game ever on the CPC.
Was it the only game you had? 🤣
3:00 FEUD - I spent my of today hacking this game, I managed to get invincibility but so did my nemesis :))))
Tomorrow I'll do it right.
Exolon clearly isn't perfect, ZX version is much better.
Too bad you neglected "Rogue Trooper" it just shines on Amstrad CPC leaving ZX and C64 versions far behind.
Thanatos is also the best on CPC. Tau Ceti is amazing and would be the best if it were not for its sluggishness on the stock CPC, good thing we have emulators that allow us set 125% speed (or more).
Anyone remember “Dan Dare” and “Jack the Nipper”?
Basically it had all the Speccy games. I'm more interested in the CPC exclusive games. Are there any worth mentioning?
There are quite a few. Ikari Warriors came out a whole year in advance over the other 8bits. Dizzy originated on the CPC as well. But probably needs a dedicated vid.
@@ClassicReplay Good to know. Thank you. Yes, a dedicated video would be great. Cheers.
Harrier attack woop woop
Can’t beat it! Pure nostalgia
Some classics , no way Bruce Lee cpc was better than the 64 one tho mate!!
That’s what I thought, but apparently C64 version has all sorts of issues, game locking up and other bugs. But don’t quote me on that, just something I heard on a live stream.
@ClassicReplay I've never experienced that and completed it a number of times! Amstrad one isn't bad, but colours/sound not as good and gameplay slightly laggy. Speccie version very smooth!
You missed Sorcery + and T.L.L👍
Agreed! But you could probably name at least another fifty. I wasn’t a fan personally of those two games though. I felt TLL played smoother and faster on the ZX Spectrum and felt a tiny bit clunkier on controls for the CPC. For Sorcery, it always peeved me off that the sprites clashed, ruined the illusion for me. But on the whole, very good games.
No T.L.L was much better on the CPC but hey ho and Sorcery + is the best game on the CPC@@ClassicReplay
Beat me to it. I'll be honest I'm going to play some of these over what I thought were the better versions but the only game where there would never ever be any doubt is Sorcery and its a surprising omission. No other version comes close.
😎👍@@BillsOldandNewGaming
Bruce Lee on the Amstrad was blocky as hell, even worse than the C64/Atari versions. The Speccy version played faster than all the others, but I liked Atari/C64 versions (they were near identical) best. Head Over Heels on the Amstrad was awesome and the best 8-bit version.
pedant mode, rick dangerous 2 came out in 90. anyhow, fantastic trip down memory lane. apart from the fact I was poor and had a green screen.
In that case I must have been poor as well as I too had a green screen 📺 what doesn’t kill you 🤣
You guys never hooked it up to the main TV?
@@lovemadeinjapan eventually I did, bought it off a mate, it had a dodgy RF connector. Had it for 6 months before I jumped ship to Megadrive after spending 4+ years viewing everything in green.
I did, you could get an RF converter. We hooked up to the main tv a few times, but my dad complained about us taking up the only tv in the house. So straight back to the monitor. Seeing things on the big tv in colour made me save up and go out and buy a second hand colour monitor. Game changer!
1990 seems like such a long time ago to me now. The only reference I have left of it is the Italia 1990 World Cup. I remember exactly where I was and who I was with when watching England go out 🤣
In comparison with Speccy and C64 ( I'm a fan of both, I have a 64 maxi and Speccy on my modded PSP, I used to have a 48k +) I find Scooby Doo and Bombjack much better on the Amstrad machine. Of course I prefer the SID chip to Amstrad's sound. Only the PICO 8 tracker is better than the SID to my ears for retro gaming.
Also Terramex and TITAN.
Terramex better on the C64, miles better. Titan looked great, but a bit boring impo 😴 A great technical achievement though
I hated the huge borders on a good portion of games. There was many classics though, remember going to bootfairs on the hunt for certain games
Didn’t we all. But it didn’t need to be that way as games like Desert Fox prove
Where is Myth??? 😢
It can’t be considered perfect. 1. It’s a Speccy port, and 2. The last level was removed.
The version of Exolon isn't the Amstrad one.
I don't think you've had your Weetabix today. It's definitely the CPC version 😉
navy moves.... IS THE BEST.... you missed it...
Best what? At giving you a heart attack! Looked good, but not relaxing in the slightest
Roland on the ropes can be turbo charged in terms of performance by loading it up after activating the unofficial Mode 3.
I think its one of the only games ever that is still playable in Mode 3.
Why would anyone use Mode 3, less colour than mode 0 🤷🏻♂️ utterly pointless unless you need two screens in 16k
Gryzor got shafted.
How so?
@@ClassicReplayjust an honourable mention. It had a 95% rating in the magazines. I couldn't afford a lot of games but I had Gryzor ( probably a birthday wish ).
The Games Machine gave it 82%, Powerplay gave it 85%, ACE gave it 77%, AA gave it 82%. But only CV+G awarded it 90%. So where are these 95% ratings in magazines 🤷🏻♂️ it’s a damn fine game, I love it also. But without scroll, for such a big arcade conversion. It was always going to be open to scrutiny.