Allright guys! Sorry, it seems some people are a little confused, missed the full title and description, or maybe skipped the intro with me explaining. This video is not the 'top 10 greatest CPC games ever', but the top 10 games to start out with new if you're getting into the Amstrad for the first time with many people are picking them up on eBay having never owned one before. Or deciding to get an emulator for the first time too. So, IMHO these are the games that will give you the best 'overview' of the machine, it's history and what it can do. I've already done a 'top 20' video many years ago, although it's looking a bit dated now. So if you want me to do a new one, I will do. Of course, we can't all agree on what games would feature! :)
Fair enough, I was about to post: ''Where is Bubble Bobble?'' ;) I played that game more than any other (with a friend) on both Speccy and 464, and there were many arguments over who could get to the red shoe first lol. And definitely Target: Renegade over the first one! That too was enormous fun in 2 player mode... Edit: Another game I remember loving (and being amazed at the great graphics) was Prince of Persia. And Chuckie Egg was one of THE classic games of that era, which I think got ported to practically every machine around...
Even if it were a Top 10 in terms of favourites, it's still subjective, and I don't understand why people in the comments either don't realise that, or take it as a personal attack when you don't mention a game they like.
hey m8 i got a question u might be able to answer. so i got the disc version of a game called heavy on the magic. i only find the tape version for sale. so could u maybe tell me what it might be worth ?
Great video mate it took me right back, I'm 45 now I had a green screen 464 when I was about 10 I think it was £199 or £299 if you had the full colour screen I remember I got 10 games that came with it my faverouts were 3D boxing, harrier attack, fruit machine simulator and oh mummy 👍🏻
My Amstrad 464 CPC had a green screen, didn't bother me though. Pretty certain I had the Amsoft pack too. Sultan's Maze was one of the scariest games I'd played since Venture on Atari 2600. My first violent games were Renegade and Barbarian. Other games I had were 180 Darts, Green Beret, Soccer Boss, Platoon, The Great Escape -what a game that was.
I loved harrier attack. I'd press the ESCape key when my friends were playing for the first time, and it took them a while to figure out why the pilot kept ejecting lol
Was my first ever computer. Surprisingly I only played a few of the games on your list though (Robocop, Chase HQ, Renegade and Head Over Heels). I think Yie Ar Kung Fu was the first game I played on it, an old school Street Fighter 2 type fighting game, I still remember the theme music now! But for me the main memory of the Amstrad is playing all the Dizzy games (and spin offs like Seymour Goes to Hollywood), and swapping tips with classmates at school on how to get past certain puzzles!
Many a broken joy stick playing Daily Thompson Olympics. Harrier attack was my favourite. Just don't bomb your own boat on take off or you couldn't land to refuel
Roland was something of an early Amstrad mascot, akin to Horace on the Spectrum, and 'ropes' was a port of 'Fred', a Spanish game published by Quicksilva for other platforms. I think the Chuckie Egg concept started on the Spectrum, but became better known as a BBC title as the port appeared roughly the same time as the spectrum was finished and released, and - being just as good if not a slightly better version - it stood out from the BBC games library more than the origional version did.
Wow, thanks for the trip down memory lane - happy days! My family still has the CPC464 in the loft including green monitor, adaptor for colour TV and the external floppy disk drive. Games that I remember fondly - in addition to a few you have listed in your video - include IK+, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2, Yogi Bear, Cammando, 4 Star Soccer, Batman the Movie, Tin Tin, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. On floppy disk I have/had Hudson Hawk, Turracan, X-out, Prince of Persia, Super Cars, Viz and Hero Quest. Loved the Dizzy games - especially Treasure Island and Fantasy Island. Always got excited for the next Amstrad Action magazine and was eager to find out what games/demos would be included on the cassette that came with it.
I got my CPC 464 in 1989 also. Absolutely loved it. Fantasy World Dizzy, BombJack, buying Amstrad Action and playing the weird games on the free tape. Great time to be a kid and we still had the Megadrive and Snes to come.
Mad,didnt expect to find anything wen i typed it in.My faves are harrier attack,fruity frank and from the 12 pack we got wth it Fruit Machine,brilliantly simple but fun.
Classic and karnov was great. Yie are kung fu was great too. Played it on my mates speccy. Harrier attack was great on cpc. I'm gonna sound ungrateful but I had the green screen. It was OK but would have been better in colour. Wasn't much more either. But my dad saved a tenner.
+Xyphoe Same here. I'm still hoping emulators will also soon finally be able to properly load in tape images of old Firebird loaders with music in them. I haven't heard the BOOTY loader in 15 years! *sob*
Surprised not to see Bomb Jack there - I played it on the CPC464 when I was a little kid. I thought it was Amazing, compared to some of the titles that were shown in this video.
I used a 464 from mid-'85 to '90. I still play CPC games via emulation. Favourites now:- Bruce Lee, Chuckie Egg, Rebelstar, Laser Squad, Boulder Dash, Who Dares Wins 2, Deathchase, Knight Lore, Fruity Frank, Splat. That 12 game pack the CPC was bundled with was mostly rubbish! Fruit Machine was mildly addictive, and that's about it. Harvey Headbanger is good if you can find another player. Motos is very good, too!
Great showcase of some of the best games on the Amstrad. Chase HQ looks amazing. Was nice to see Donkey Kong in there as I just watched "King of Kong" last night - a documentary about the worlds best Donkey Kong players. Well worth a watch =)
For some reason, every CPC user I've asked prefers "Chase HQ" over "Wec Le Mans", also a racing game by Ocean, but I think the second one is vastly superior. 4 leaps broken into three checkpoints, all in one single load, plus the most smooth handling I've ever seen in a CPC racing game. And it also has one of the coolest loading screens in the CPC library. Check it out.
The Aliens game for the Amstrad was also very good. Head over Heels was a really good one though. I remember Sabrewulf and Timberwulf too and one called curse of Sherwood I think. Warewolf of London was one of my favorite games ever too..
Excellent vid again zyphoe...just looking at the comments makes me realise just how many amazing games there were on the Amstrad but how we all at some point eked out hours of enjoyment from some of the worst ones as well! Happy days!
Excellent Video as always Xyphoe, was the best computer I have ever owned, many fond memories of playing games back in 89 and completing the type in's with my Dad. - keep up the good work
My grandmother had a 664 and the most played game was a version of Trivial Pursuit. There was one night in the early 00s when she moved into a smaller house after my grandad died, and we had a game for old time's sake. (It asked questions but you had to speak your answer aloud and have the other players verify you were correct before moving on. It really was basically a virtual game board rather than actually accepting answers directly into the computer. Still an incredible way of playing it -- the one big advantage was that they could play chip tunes for music questions.) Other than that, my favourite 8-bit game(s) was the Dizzy franchise. I had them on the 16-bit Amiga, but having first played them on my friend's Spectrum and Granny's 664, the colour versions on the Amiga always felt a bit...wrong. It didn't help that the Amiga Treasure Island Dizzy had a weird wrap around glitch if you got up too high at certain points of the game (many Dizzy games involved travelling amongst the clouds). Liminal spaces are prime triggers for my sense of horror, and out of bounds/glitches in games quite often work in that same way. (Don't talk to me about getting trapped in the scenery in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. I love the game, don't get me wrong -- I'm one of those weirdos who loves BIIIIIIG Ubisoft games that I can digest in small bits over a few years or so -- but getting trapped in the middle of a rock really is an annoying and irrationally upsetting.
I got a cpc464+ for christmas in the early 90’s. Loved it. Took ages to load and most of the games were shit but there were some great games too, Ocean games probably the best, Robocop, Batman, Terminator 2. I also liked New Zealand story, all the Dizzy games. The Amstrad Action magazine demo games were good too. Gonna buy a reconditioned one soon I think.
Chase HQ took me particularly by surprise. Especially, and particularly when hills and shifting to rain came into play. Now that's just downright impressive for a system of that era! I shouldn't be too shocked though. A selling point of the CPC was the color and graphical tricks of a commodore, paired with the CPU power of a spectrum.
You haven't disappointed, sir! Very pleased to see that you've chosen the more 'characterful' games as well as the big names: they're the games that made the machine. I mean, I spent hours on Roland in Time and Hunchback despite them being entirely crap! Loved Robocop though. Took forever to realize you had to get rid of your bullets to beat the bikers at the end of level 3.
I remember hiring games from my local computer store and copying them, then loading the copy for the first time and praying not to receive the dreaded "Syntax Error". Fun times. On top of the games that have already been mentioned, some of my favs were: Spindizzy Elite The Sentinel Raid Over Moscow (later politically corrected to "Raid") Sorcery The Trap Door Spy Vs. Spy Switchblade
Great video, brings back so many memories. I'm also glad to see Werewolves of London in there, I've been telling people for years how under-rated that game is!
another great video, i agree with nearly everything, OP Wolf ,Dr Destructo and Buggy Boy deserved spots, but thats my opinion :), keep up the great work!!
Never had a Amstrad, as I was a speccy owner back in the day, but the Amstrad had some class games too. Robocop and that Chase Hq look and play so well. Great video!🙂
I used to own the AmstraCPC 464 - loved spindizzy and finally completing it! Absolutely impossible without cheat codes - Enjoyed the Amtips magazine which charlie brooker of black mirror fame used to write for - not a lot of people know that!
As someone who never owned an Amstrad but now thinks it may have overall been the best 8-bit, to show the Amstrad off from back-in-the-day I'd be thinking: Robocop, Sorcery +, Xyphoes Fantasy, Chase HQ, Mission Genocide (for the scrolling), Head Over Heels, Stormlord, Rick Dangerous 2, Get Dexter and Gryzor. People comparing it to the C64 always pick the Spectrum ports, sadly.
An excellent video for nostalgia, but there were three games I grew up with on the 464. Sorcery by far was my most memorable. Cylu was my second, and I even went as far as writing my own version of this using the Allegro game library a few years back. I'll leave that for Google search engine but just search Cylu and APEXnow on Allegro game library. The third game was Batman by Ocean Games.
On my top whatever Amstrad list there would be definitely place for Commando, Xenon, Rick Dangerous, Turrican, R-Type, and Stunt Car Racer, at least from what I have tried on emulator.
This is not the Amstrad I had prior to Mastersystem (Uncle gave it me). I remember with great fondness MC Burger, Raid, Harrier and Desert Fox. Where all these colours and fancy games come from?
Oh my god, you are the only person i have ever heard mention Rana Rama!! AMAZING game but took HOURS. I completed the entire thing and emptied all the rooms on all the levels (which took about two days!), and then it would just start over, but in a kind of negative colour scheme! Think i completed every level twice in one game...took about a week, and no 'save' mode, so had to leave my pc on the entire time!!!
As a C64 owner... I'm jealous of the greatness of some of these games! Chase HQ, Robocop look SO much more fun to play! Also the Amstrad had a great colour palette compared to the C64's somewhat drab colours. I'll always be a C64 guy but that doesn't mean I don't see how some of the Amstrad games are superior to the C64 versions.
OMG the memories lol thanks for the video once again, I have to say my personal favs where all the dizzy games and the seymour games like wild west and at the movies.
For me it's: Aliens (Software Studios version - absolutely terrifying), Hard Drivin', Manchester United in Europe, Saboteur, Dan Dare, Paperboy, Alien Storm, Gauntlet, Barbarian, Batman, Daley Thompson's (Olympic Challenge?) Ghostbusters. Some of my very earliest memories are of playing Amstrad games with my big brother in the late-80s, and it took me about half an hour just to recall this short list. I'm sure there are a tonne more of them.
Ive still got mine, gonna dig it out now for some nostalgia. Loved all the magic knight series, finders keepers, spellbound, stormbringer and knight tyme. Also cauldron and cauldron 2. Sorcery 😍
First console was probably the Pong, with the turnable controllers, other Great games for this system were Weclemans, Batman, Bronx Street Cop, Dizzy Lost In Treasure Island, Beach Buggy, Ghost Busters, Animal Vegetable Mineral, Popeye, Dragons, Big Trouble In Little China etc
Thank you so much for having Fruity Frank in there! It's my Nr 1, really. I might have included Boulder Dash, 'cause it's the best version of it, really, and maybe Sorcery+, and Android One.
I had one of these computers and some of my best games where chase HQ, bubble bobble, Elite, target renegade, minder, rainbow islands all the dizzy games.
harrier attack. One of the fastest loading games 77 on the tape tacho counter.... paperboy was one of my favourite games but it took an hour to load, really hard but had no sound?
Roland, lol.... how about Jet Set Willy? I had the CPC6128, copied tape games onto disk, from coding/program provided by C+VG magazine (1987 time?)... That game like Contra i forgot, thanks for those memories.... Space Harrier got alot of time!!!
Bomb Jack was the first time a game made me feel like i was at the top of a climb on a rollercoaster. Butterflies in my stomach Jet Set Willy - Oh Mummy. There was a puzzle game where you had to walk on these walls and paint the floors white . The walls were like escharian stairs. Isometric. Can't remember the name
My God this was my first computer I had :-D oh the memories of playing Ronald on the ropes/caves, harrier attack, oh mummy, and galaxy plague I enjoyed - just to start with but the games I hold dear to me from this computer are Rampage Gauntlet Bubble Bobble Shinobi Thanatos Elevator Action And yes I did like Friday the 13th game, but there are so many that I can remember all there names
I used to have one with the green screen monitor, and no matter how hard I searched in Tandy, Dixons, Woolworths, Boots and basically everywhere that sold computers I just couldn't find a modulator.
No free games pack with my 464 , December 1984. Only one general demo tape and a crap one at that! But I got Harrier Attack, Manic Minor and Codename Matt as additional presents. The latter soon prompting me to buy a joystick...
hmm i remember the likes of burning rubber. golden axe. crystal castle. express raiders which were all classic arcade games. turrican was a great game. others i enjoyed were electro freddy. black magic the memories. i miss being a kid
I completed this game on the cpc564 using a dodgy worn-out Amstrad joystick. It tested patience to an extreme. And, the end game animation crashes and doesn't finish!
Nice list. However, when it comes to Amsoft games, I am surprised that you did not pick Formula One. Now, I really dig Robocop but I would say it is ex-aequo with Batman the Movie, which is absolutely brilliant!
We had a game called sorcerer that was good, also one that was on the rare package on Xbox that was wild West. So many good games and no idea what they where called. I would greatly appreciate a link to a list of all the games if possible?
Nice list matey - never heard of Fruity Frank before but I'll definately keep an eye out for it :) Nice to hear Werewolves get a mention - a game I enjoyed as a kid and still have :)
Allright guys! Sorry, it seems some people are a little confused, missed the full title and description, or maybe skipped the intro with me explaining. This video is not the 'top 10 greatest CPC games ever', but the top 10 games to start out with new if you're getting into the Amstrad for the first time with many people are picking them up on eBay having never owned one before. Or deciding to get an emulator for the first time too. So, IMHO these are the games that will give you the best 'overview' of the machine, it's history and what it can do. I've already done a 'top 20' video many years ago, although it's looking a bit dated now. So if you want me to do a new one, I will do. Of course, we can't all agree on what games would feature! :)
Fair enough, I was about to post: ''Where is Bubble Bobble?'' ;) I played that game more than any other (with a friend) on both Speccy and 464, and there were many arguments over who could get to the red shoe first lol. And definitely Target: Renegade over the first one! That too was enormous fun in 2 player mode...
Edit: Another game I remember loving (and being amazed at the great graphics) was Prince of Persia. And Chuckie Egg was one of THE classic games of that era, which I think got ported to practically every machine around...
Even if it were a Top 10 in terms of favourites, it's still subjective, and I don't understand why people in the comments either don't realise that, or take it as a personal attack when you don't mention a game they like.
hey m8 i got a question u might be able to answer. so i got the disc version of a game called heavy on the magic. i only find the tape version for sale. so could u maybe tell me what it might be worth ?
Great video mate it took me right back, I'm 45 now I had a green screen 464 when I was about 10 I think it was £199 or £299 if you had the full colour screen I remember I got 10 games that came with it my faverouts were 3D boxing, harrier attack, fruit machine simulator and oh mummy 👍🏻
Some people don't may attention. Sometimes I'm one of them but not this time :)
Still have mine. Boxed and tonnes of games! Great memories and loooong loading times. Imagine kids of today sitting through 12mins of loading time
Oh man!! I remember it took ages to master Target Renegade kicking bikers off the bikes, and beating Big Bertha when she would run at you LOL
My Amstrad 464 CPC had a green screen, didn't bother me though. Pretty certain I had the Amsoft pack too. Sultan's Maze was one of the scariest games I'd played since Venture on Atari 2600. My first violent games were Renegade and Barbarian. Other games I had were 180 Darts, Green Beret, Soccer Boss, Platoon, The Great Escape -what a game that was.
Green screens are awesome! Discovered it lately.
Loved Roland in the Caves as a kid. Got my CPC 464 around 1986/87 I think? Bought from The Co-op. Great days.
Dizzy, Oh Mummy, Fruit Machine, Harrier Attack were the most played in our house
I loved harrier attack. I'd press the ESCape key when my friends were playing for the first time, and it took them a while to figure out why the pilot kept ejecting lol
I got the Amsoft pack when I was bought the Amstrad for my Birthday in 1985 iirc, Great video.
Me too. 3D Stunt Rider, Sultans Maze, Roland in Time... great memories.
@@TheVanillatech yes. You remember it too. 3d stunt rider. I loved that game. First game we had. I think it came with the amstrad.
Remember we used to get games from the library and record them onto a blank cassette on high speed dubbing. Worked every time.
+idontsignin i love you
oh yeh i did that - hired them out for 50p and used my next door neighbours tape to tape...he also had a cpc464.
Is that why there are bootlegs in my dad's old game boxes?? Cheeky bugger 🤣🤣🤣
Loved my Amstrad cpc 464 with green screen monitor. Emlyn Hughes International Soccer being my favorite game closely followed by Robocop.
Omg I had the CPC 464 with green screen I also loved emylin Hughes 👍🏻 also oh mummy and 3d boxing 🥊
The Oh Mummy theme is forever ingrained in my head.
Game has been loading for 20 minutes....... syntax error! Damn!!!!!!
"Read error B..." NOOOOOOOO!!!!! 😖
@@stuartgoswell1193 "EOF Met" ... wtf?
Us: I'm gonna do it again!
Was my first ever computer. Surprisingly I only played a few of the games on your list though (Robocop, Chase HQ, Renegade and Head Over Heels). I think Yie Ar Kung Fu was the first game I played on it, an old school Street Fighter 2 type fighting game, I still remember the theme music now! But for me the main memory of the Amstrad is playing all the Dizzy games (and spin offs like Seymour Goes to Hollywood), and swapping tips with classmates at school on how to get past certain puzzles!
Many a broken joy stick playing Daily Thompson Olympics. Harrier attack was my favourite. Just don't bomb your own boat on take off or you couldn't land to refuel
3D Stunt Rider and Sultans Maze were my favs from the Amstoft pack. Possibly Oh Mummy too!
Loved my amstrad cpc 464, received it for Christmas in 1985. Excellent selection, cheers from South of France
Roland was something of an early Amstrad mascot, akin to Horace on the Spectrum, and 'ropes' was a port of 'Fred', a Spanish game published by Quicksilva for other platforms.
I think the Chuckie Egg concept started on the Spectrum, but became better known as a BBC title as the port appeared roughly the same time as the spectrum was finished and released, and - being just as good if not a slightly better version - it stood out from the BBC games library more than the origional version did.
Wow, thanks for the trip down memory lane - happy days! My family still has the CPC464 in the loft including green monitor, adaptor for colour TV and the external floppy disk drive. Games that I remember fondly - in addition to a few you have listed in your video - include IK+, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2, Yogi Bear, Cammando, 4 Star Soccer, Batman the Movie, Tin Tin, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. On floppy disk I have/had Hudson Hawk, Turracan, X-out, Prince of Persia, Super Cars, Viz and Hero Quest. Loved the Dizzy games - especially Treasure Island and Fantasy Island.
Always got excited for the next Amstrad Action magazine and was eager to find out what games/demos would be included on the cassette that came with it.
I got my CPC 464 in 1989 also. Absolutely loved it. Fantasy World Dizzy, BombJack, buying Amstrad Action and playing the weird games on the free tape. Great time to be a kid and we still had the Megadrive and Snes to come.
Mad,didnt expect to find anything wen i typed it in.My faves are harrier attack,fruity frank and from the 12 pack we got wth it Fruit Machine,brilliantly simple but fun.
I loved Yi Ar KUng Fu. Gryzor and Ikari Warriors..and Robocop
Great video! Demonstrates just how capable an 8 bit system the CPC is :)
Indeed! And there's probably a video to do of the ones that really pushed the limits beyond what we see in this video too!
Great video, good choices of games, and nice to see you give a big shoutout to many other titles at the end. Gauntlet has to be my #1 on the old CPC.
Classic and karnov was great. Yie are kung fu was great too. Played it on my mates speccy. Harrier attack was great on cpc. I'm gonna sound ungrateful but I had the green screen. It was OK but would have been better in colour. Wasn't much more either. But my dad saved a tenner.
Thanks for the vid Xyphoe. Great to watch....more importantly loved the sound of the old girl loading! I miss that.. :)
Oh that tape loading sound! I grew to hate it, now I miss and love it! lol
+Xyphoe Same here. I'm still hoping emulators will also soon finally be able to properly load in tape images of old Firebird loaders with music in them. I haven't heard the BOOTY loader in 15 years! *sob*
Saw one sold at Southgate auction today, Keyboard, screen, 100+ games printer and about 40 magazines. Went for £65
Great video mate!!! I loved my amstrad it was the first computer I had!! I was about 7-8 when my dad brought one home! Great times!!
Me too. You must be born 79 for a guess
Great video man. Brings back so many good memories. I;d actually forgot how good the graphics were for Robocop until I saw this.
wow i remember playing rampage on this as kid
What about R-Type?
Surprised not to see Bomb Jack there - I played it on the CPC464 when I was a little kid. I thought it was Amazing, compared to some of the titles that were shown in this video.
Been furiously searching the comments for a fellow bomb Jack man ✌️🤣
I used a 464 from mid-'85 to '90. I still play CPC games via emulation. Favourites now:- Bruce Lee, Chuckie Egg, Rebelstar, Laser Squad, Boulder Dash, Who Dares Wins 2, Deathchase, Knight Lore, Fruity Frank, Splat. That 12 game pack the CPC was bundled with was mostly rubbish! Fruit Machine was mildly addictive, and that's about it. Harvey Headbanger is good if you can find another player. Motos is very good, too!
Great showcase of some of the best games on the Amstrad. Chase HQ looks amazing. Was nice to see Donkey Kong in there as I just watched "King of Kong" last night - a documentary about the worlds best Donkey Kong players. Well worth a watch =)
Oh I loved that King Of Kong documentary!!! Any more good ones like that?
Amsoft's 3D Grand Prix was one of the originals that I loved back in the 80s.
Yes I later discovered this one... it's really very good!
No Bombjack ,ikari warriors or green beret ??...Loved those games
For some reason, every CPC user I've asked prefers "Chase HQ" over "Wec Le Mans", also a racing game by Ocean, but I think the second one is vastly superior. 4 leaps broken into three checkpoints, all in one single load, plus the most smooth handling I've ever seen in a CPC racing game. And it also has one of the coolest loading screens in the CPC library. Check it out.
Remember the formula one game. Forgot the name and 4x4 off road. And buggy boy
The Aliens game for the Amstrad was also very good. Head over Heels was a really good one though. I remember Sabrewulf and Timberwulf too and one called curse of Sherwood I think. Warewolf of London was one of my favorite games ever too..
The aliens game still gives me goose pimples
Curse of Sherwood was interesting.
Excellent vid again zyphoe...just looking at the comments makes me realise just how many amazing games there were on the Amstrad but how we all at some point eked out hours of enjoyment from some of the worst ones as well! Happy days!
Oh there are thousands of great games :D Thank you :)
Wow most of these games are better than what you would find on the NES! How is that possible??
That isometric one, that's one we had. It was ace ! Thank you soooooo much !
Excellent Video as always Xyphoe, was the best computer I have ever owned, many fond memories of playing games back in 89 and completing the type in's with my Dad. - keep up the good work
Chase HQ is like the Spectrum version with colour. Great conversion either way.
My grandmother had a 664 and the most played game was a version of Trivial Pursuit. There was one night in the early 00s when she moved into a smaller house after my grandad died, and we had a game for old time's sake. (It asked questions but you had to speak your answer aloud and have the other players verify you were correct before moving on. It really was basically a virtual game board rather than actually accepting answers directly into the computer. Still an incredible way of playing it -- the one big advantage was that they could play chip tunes for music questions.)
Other than that, my favourite 8-bit game(s) was the Dizzy franchise. I had them on the 16-bit Amiga, but having first played them on my friend's Spectrum and Granny's 664, the colour versions on the Amiga always felt a bit...wrong. It didn't help that the Amiga Treasure Island Dizzy had a weird wrap around glitch if you got up too high at certain points of the game (many Dizzy games involved travelling amongst the clouds). Liminal spaces are prime triggers for my sense of horror, and out of bounds/glitches in games quite often work in that same way. (Don't talk to me about getting trapped in the scenery in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. I love the game, don't get me wrong -- I'm one of those weirdos who loves BIIIIIIG Ubisoft games that I can digest in small bits over a few years or so -- but getting trapped in the middle of a rock really is an annoying and irrationally upsetting.
The Way of the Exploding Fist, Fighter Pilot, Snowball 9, Speed King, 3D Grand Prix, Out Run and Winter Olympics. Awesome memories.
I got a cpc464+ for christmas in the early 90’s. Loved it. Took ages to load and most of the games were shit but there were some great games too, Ocean games probably the best, Robocop, Batman, Terminator 2. I also liked New Zealand story, all the Dizzy games. The Amstrad Action magazine demo games were good too. Gonna buy a reconditioned one soon I think.
Chase HQ took me particularly by surprise. Especially, and particularly when hills and shifting to rain came into play. Now that's just downright impressive for a system of that era! I shouldn't be too shocked though. A selling point of the CPC was the color and graphical tricks of a commodore, paired with the CPU power of a spectrum.
I think you will find its selling point was the fact it came with a monitor which meant dad could watch world of sport on the big telly.
@@wonderingworld119 Makes sense!
Thanks for the memories, my favouites, Sabateur, Football Manager, F! Grand Prix, Spy Hunter and Roadblasters.
Had sabateur on a 6 game two side cassette with batty and battleships on it (I think..... Can't mind all the games) batty and sabateur were awesome
You haven't disappointed, sir! Very pleased to see that you've chosen the more 'characterful' games as well as the big names: they're the games that made the machine. I mean, I spent hours on Roland in Time and Hunchback despite them being entirely crap! Loved Robocop though. Took forever to realize you had to get rid of your bullets to beat the bikers at the end of level 3.
Oh I spent hours on Hunchback also!! That came free with the 6128 too!
Commando ? Dizzy ?
I remember hiring games from my local computer store and copying them, then loading the copy for the first time and praying not to receive the dreaded "Syntax Error". Fun times. On top of the games that have already been mentioned, some of my favs were:
Spindizzy
Elite
The Sentinel
Raid Over Moscow (later politically corrected to "Raid")
Sorcery
The Trap Door
Spy Vs. Spy
Switchblade
Great video, brings back so many memories. I'm also glad to see Werewolves of London in there, I've been telling people for years how under-rated that game is!
It totally is (underrated!) - wicked game. Just shame about the 'sewer' section of the game (if you make it that far), which is confusing as hell!
another great video, i agree with nearly everything, OP Wolf ,Dr Destructo and Buggy Boy deserved spots, but thats my opinion :), keep up the great work!!
Buggy boy was the dogs bols. Classic. And target renegade
Never had a Amstrad, as I was a speccy owner back in the day, but the Amstrad had some class games too. Robocop and that Chase Hq look and play so well. Great video!🙂
Thanks Paul! Lots more to find too! Check out some of the newer releases like Pinball Dreams, The Abduction Of Oscar Z, Alcon 2020, and many more :)
@@Xyphoe definitely mate
I used to own the AmstraCPC 464 - loved spindizzy and finally completing it! Absolutely impossible without cheat codes - Enjoyed the Amtips magazine which charlie brooker of black mirror fame used to write for - not a lot of people know that!
My first computer and the first time I had a favourite dev in "ocean" whatever happened to them?
My whole family loved Fruity Frank! I always thought it was more of a Boulder Dash clone tho.
haha same here. we used to play that with my father and brother to decide who would wash the dishes after dinner hhaa
Wow the Amstrad was a beast. Fast too really great vid. Thanks!
Remember totally getting annoyed with paper boy game used to crash off the bike near end of the level, that cat lol. loved renegade.
I loved my amstrad, you should have shown it with the older Black and Green monitor :) Thank you for the trip down memory lane Xyphoe
Ballblazer was amazing!
Oh thanks,been trying pick up favorites from when i was kid.I'd forgot about Werewolfs of London.👌
As someone who never owned an Amstrad but now thinks it may have overall been the best 8-bit, to show the Amstrad off from back-in-the-day I'd be thinking: Robocop, Sorcery +, Xyphoes Fantasy, Chase HQ, Mission Genocide (for the scrolling), Head Over Heels, Stormlord, Rick Dangerous 2, Get Dexter and Gryzor. People comparing it to the C64 always pick the Spectrum ports, sadly.
An excellent video for nostalgia, but there were three games I grew up with on the 464. Sorcery by far was my most memorable. Cylu was my second, and I even went as far as writing my own version of this using the Allegro game library a few years back. I'll leave that for Google search engine but just search Cylu and APEXnow on Allegro game library. The third game was Batman by Ocean Games.
Cracking games!
A few more I loved are buggy boy, galactic plague, 3d stunt rider, commando, Rick dangerous and the dizzy games!
So much Memories !!!! feeling old too :D
Wonder boy?Ikari worriors?Ghost&goglins?Rygar? no in the top 10?
On my top whatever Amstrad list there would be definitely place for Commando, Xenon, Rick Dangerous, Turrican, R-Type, and Stunt Car Racer, at least from what I have tried on emulator.
I had it as a present on 1986. And my mom still keeps it. And she keeps her ericsson phone from 1997 too.
This is not the Amstrad I had prior to Mastersystem (Uncle gave it me). I remember with great fondness MC Burger, Raid, Harrier and Desert Fox. Where all these colours and fancy games come from?
Druid, rana rama, rebel star, bubble bobble ikari warriors ??
Oh my god, you are the only person i have ever heard mention Rana Rama!! AMAZING game but took HOURS. I completed the entire thing and emptied all the rooms on all the levels (which took about two days!), and then it would just start over, but in a kind of negative colour scheme! Think i completed every level twice in one game...took about a week, and no 'save' mode, so had to leave my pc on the entire time!!!
As a C64 owner... I'm jealous of the greatness of some of these games! Chase HQ, Robocop look SO much more fun to play! Also the Amstrad had a great colour palette compared to the C64's somewhat drab colours. I'll always be a C64 guy but that doesn't mean I don't see how some of the Amstrad games are superior to the C64 versions.
it was better than the spectrums too!
Heads over Heels and Gryzor - great memories. Never played Chase HQ but it looks really good.
OMG the memories lol thanks for the video once again, I have to say my personal favs where all the dizzy games and the seymour games like wild west and at the movies.
I'll be looking at the Dizzy and Seymour series at some point in the future more :)
ooooooo cant wait, I would love to watch any playthroughs on them :) even super seymour was a good side scrolling shooter, so maybe that one too :)
Ikari Warriors??
Used too play this at my nanas from the age of 8 wow starting too remember some of these games nostalgic 👍
For me it's:
Aliens (Software Studios version - absolutely terrifying),
Hard Drivin',
Manchester United in Europe,
Saboteur,
Dan Dare,
Paperboy,
Alien Storm,
Gauntlet,
Barbarian,
Batman,
Daley Thompson's (Olympic Challenge?)
Ghostbusters.
Some of my very earliest memories are of playing Amstrad games with my big brother in the late-80s, and it took me about half an hour just to recall this short list. I'm sure there are a tonne more of them.
Ive still got mine, gonna dig it out now for some nostalgia. Loved all the magic knight series, finders keepers, spellbound, stormbringer and knight tyme. Also cauldron and cauldron 2. Sorcery 😍
My first ever computer, used to spend hours on Dynamite Dan and Pyjamarama.
I loved Dynamite Dan!
First console was probably the Pong, with the turnable controllers, other Great games for this system were Weclemans, Batman, Bronx Street Cop, Dizzy Lost In Treasure Island, Beach Buggy, Ghost Busters, Animal Vegetable Mineral, Popeye, Dragons, Big Trouble In Little China etc
Thank you so much for having Fruity Frank in there! It's my Nr 1, really. I might have included Boulder Dash, 'cause it's the best version of it, really, and maybe Sorcery+, and Android One.
Rolland on the ropes, Bomb jack, fruit machine, galactic plague and manic minor was amongst my favourites.
go to CPC POWER and install them on the emulator called SugarBox v.28, happiness is there lol
my favorite are sentinel, fruity frank and both Get Dexter one and two, among other treasures, impossable, etc....
I had one of these computers and some of my best games where chase HQ, bubble bobble, Elite, target renegade, minder, rainbow islands all the dizzy games.
so awesome..so many cool games..so many memories!..wish i still had my 464
I had a spectrum, but looking back the CPC had some cracking games. Developers really pushed the limits of these old machines.
Robocop on Amstrad had no right having music that good. Awesome
and while I'm on a piff inspired nostalgic flashback - I'd also throw into the mix, Who Dares Wins 2, Match Point and Knight Lore.
harrier attack. One of the fastest loading games 77 on the tape tacho counter.... paperboy was one of my favourite games but it took an hour to load, really hard but had no sound?
Roland, lol.... how about Jet Set Willy?
I had the CPC6128, copied tape games onto disk, from coding/program provided by C+VG magazine (1987 time?)...
That game like Contra i forgot, thanks for those memories....
Space Harrier got alot of time!!!
Bomb Jack was the first time a game made me feel like i was at the top of a climb on a rollercoaster. Butterflies in my stomach
Jet Set Willy - Oh Mummy. There was a puzzle game where you had to walk on these walls and paint the floors white . The walls were like escharian stairs. Isometric. Can't remember the name
My God this was my first computer I had :-D oh the memories of playing Ronald on the ropes/caves, harrier attack, oh mummy, and galaxy plague I enjoyed - just to start with but the games I hold dear to me from this computer are
Rampage
Gauntlet
Bubble Bobble
Shinobi
Thanatos
Elevator Action
And yes I did like Friday the 13th game, but there are so many that I can remember all there names
Rampage and Gauntlet! Both great games. Barbarian?
Hmm yea totally forgot about Gauntlet... what a great conversion that was!
Oh and I've looked into doing a Rampage longplay, but I think I worked out there's well over a 100 levels so gave up on that idea!!!
+Mark Lyne batman and switchblade were my favourite,predator 2 aswell but that was hard
I didn't have those :( I remember seeing the Batman game but was to expensive at the time lol - a guilty pleasure of mine was Friday the 13th
I used to have one with the green screen monitor, and no matter how hard I searched in Tandy, Dixons, Woolworths, Boots and basically everywhere that sold computers I just couldn't find a modulator.
Yie Ar Kung-Fu. Purely for the hilarious music.
John Busst its great game
No free games pack with my 464 , December 1984. Only one general demo tape and a crap one at that! But I got Harrier Attack, Manic Minor and Codename Matt as additional presents. The latter soon prompting me to buy a joystick...
hmm i remember the likes of burning rubber. golden axe. crystal castle. express raiders which were all classic arcade games. turrican was a great game. others i enjoyed were electro freddy. black magic the memories. i miss being a kid
I completed this game on the cpc564 using a dodgy worn-out Amstrad joystick. It tested patience to an extreme. And, the end game animation crashes and doesn't finish!
Nice list.
However, when it comes to Amsoft games, I am surprised that you did not pick Formula One.
Now, I really dig Robocop but I would say it is ex-aequo with Batman the Movie, which is absolutely brilliant!
Brought memories back, thx dude 👍🏼
We had a game called sorcerer that was good, also one that was on the rare package on Xbox that was wild West. So many good games and no idea what they where called. I would greatly appreciate a link to a list of all the games if possible?
We had the Schneider CPC (Aka Amstrad CPC), but with a green/black screen and build in tape dripe in the keyboard.
Nice list matey - never heard of Fruity Frank before but I'll definately keep an eye out for it :)
Nice to hear Werewolves get a mention - a game I enjoyed as a kid and still have :)
Fruity Frank ... man, best game ever. It's not really a Mr.Do clone .. it takes cues from it but it's actually ... better!
Did you know, Amstrad copy of Harrier Attack sold more than Mario 3 on the NES in the UK LOL
What game is the background music from??