The 20 Best Amstrad Games Released After The Amstrad
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
- Hey whatsupp guys OSG here and it been a while since my last video with being on holiday but Im back with a video that has been in the pipeline for about a year…yes a year but that isn’t down to the difficulty of making it…its down to the difficulty of satisfying Amstrad fans as today we will be taking a look at the 20 best Amstrad CPC Games released after the amstrads demise.
So way back I mentioned this video to Xyphoe and and he came back with a huge list of games for me to check out…which I did, but I couldn’t decide which ones I really liked and as I have no real connection to the system knew that any decisions I made would be scrutinised by the community….so I made a short list and gave it to Xyphoe who did a 6 hour stream on it to find out which should be in the top 20 and what order….. obviously not everyone was happy but you cant please everyone.
Anyway intro over lets take a look at the 20 best Amstrad CPC games released after the Amstrad.
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I think I shed a little tear watching that! 🥲😂 Amstrad on the OSG channel! He won't admit it but we're slowly pulling him away from the brown side of the force!
(JUST KIDDING COMMODORE FANS! I love the C64... and all retro systems... we just friendly banter... 🙂)
Thanks for doing this mate and for the shout outs!
I agree there's probably a couple there I wouldn't have included and replaced but that's how voting/polling can work sometimes for whatever reasons.
Also re CPC Soccer that's the really early version your playing there, the latest version has smoothed things out and is in full colour, introduced swerved shots, referee, etc.
Oooh and will you do an updated video when all those sweet games (and more) are finished in the intro of your video? 😁
Loved it, great video!! Worth the wait ❤
So do i Xyphoe 👋😌
Do you have a link to anywhere showing off the updated cpc soccer?
@@Barcrest Yea jump to the 1:44:00 mark on my live stream here - ruclips.net/video/EwMXtYN8BlI/видео.html :)
The next step / update hopefully is to remove the 'rough edges' from the side of the playing area when it scrolls which is a bit off putting and makes it look like it's scrolling rougher than it actually is, when it's actually shifting around at 50fps! If we mask it off it looks tremendous! See it in action when I do that at 2:10:10 on the same vid - ruclips.net/video/EwMXtYN8BlI/видео.html
The Amstrad struggled a bit with scrolling, but it had all those colours... yum. 👍
Ahh the Amstrad. My first love 🥰
I always wondered if you could go back in time and submitted them to publishers of the time, what they'd make of them.
Great plan. Lets take the Batman Demo, a 464 with a 64 kB rampack and diskdrive to the Amigas first showing of the Boing demo.. People would have walked fast past the Amiga stand to see this lovely 8-bit
Love to see many Spanish homebrew games here, for me The sword of Ianna is a masterpiece.
It shows the true power of the CPC. Such a sweet cool odd machine.
So glad to see you again OSG, therefore on the Amstrad CPC which was my first machine back into 85…. So much memories from my childhood….
These 20 games are really incredible ,…. Such talent from developpeurs to maximum optimise code for z80 exploitation….
Masterpieces and congrate to all people who are contributing to make CPC Alive forever 😀. See Ya m8 OSG : keep this good job
Thanks for the video. There are really good programming groups in Spain keeping the spirit of that beloved machine alive. Pushing the CPC Hardware to the limits. Neither Amstrad revealed all the real potential of the CRTC (in example) back in the day. I love all the 8bit retro machines but my first computer was the 464 so I have really good "green" memories...
I mean it’s not a C64 or A500 but it still enjoyable to watch, good work my friend👊🏻😁🇦🇺
Lol
Great choices OSG. For me Alcon nails it the gameplay and music are spot on. Cheers
Having had an Atari ST, I’m amazed at how close some of these games get to the ST in terms of graphics, sound and animation. Bubble Bobble looks almost identical.
Fantastic list of Amstrad games, Alcon is the pick for me. Superb conversion of the arcade game 👍
12:14 the 8 bit Amiga power house that is the Amstrad CPC :) (just wait for the NES guys to show up and shout Micro Mages)
Good list OSG, its not easy and so much good homebrew
Seen most of these on Xyphoe's streams, some nice titles here. Love the Magnetic Fields tune on Timothy Gunn, that footy game looks good too! Don't mind a good text adventure, played many bitd and it was always a bonus to get some nice graphics in the games so Orion Prime looks class. Being a shmup fan Relentless, Super Edge Grinder, Red Sunset and Alcon 2020 get my vote out this list, they all look technically suberb for 8-bit. Was no surprise what was gonna be in the top spot and rightly so, it's super impressive what they pulled off there, we need a C64 version! Nice vid m8
Literally just fixed up and started playing on an Amstrad CPC 6128 4 days ago :D
Awesome video 🎞
Looking forward to the list of Amstrad games released before the Amstrad 😅😂 😉
Cheers for the content as always.
My pleasure mate :-) thanks for watching and commenting
Nice list. The feud and ghost hunters I do remember playing alot of back in the day 😁
Nice - and thanks for the shout out ;)
You know my view on the Amstrad - but yeah Relentless is fab!
As a speccy girl growing up and laughing at my amstrad owning friends, I look at these and wonder what could have been if they were released back in the day. Long Live the 8bits and all the great new games that are now appearing
Yeah some of these would have been game changes if they had been released back in the day
Some great new gems to discover on the cpc which was my first computer. When I sold it on a few years later to go 16bit remember the fella and his son I sold it to commenting after seeing it running tiger road 'yeah this looks much better than that c64 we saw earlier' ;)
super edge grinder surely isn't an amstrad!!!! looks amazing!!!!!
Yeah it looks almost arcade like
Really cool! I'm not very familiar with the Amstrad, and I'm completely unfamiliar with more recent Amstrad software.
The backgrounds of Red Sunset at 10:30 would really work well for a JRPG style game, or Zelda type game ... but like ... miniature feel.
great see what modern Amstrad is up too theses days, some great games. Im a bit jealous about Pinball dreams
Great video, on a system that, while _obviously_ not having the technical chops of the C64, it was a beloved and much enjoyed machine by many kids and adults and helped bring on a wave of people who grew up in the 80s on the 8-bit machines and learned to code and even operate a computer without fear, which was a remarkable thing by itself, in the 80s. Amstrad did their part to bring us into this amazing future we are all helping extend. Respect 🤲
The CPC obviously lacks the C64's hardware sprites and SID chip, but it makes up for it in the graphics / palette department. As a result it wins many 8-bit conversion face-offs: Chase HQ, Gryzor, Operation Wolf, Renegade... Amstrad vs C64 is the more interesting match. The ZX Spectrum is always hopelessly behind and completely overrated.
@@renaudg All those games you mentioned were better on ZX Spectrum.
@@timoheinonen9570 That's what happens when people do lazy Spectrum ports, which the CPC was cursed with. When companies took the time to do proper versions, the CPC version was often superior to the Spectrum version.
@@timoheinonen9570 Haha funny Timo
@@timoheinonen9570 Do you also believe the Atari ST is better than the Amiga ? That would explain it😛
Great top 20 OSG!
My jaw is still on the floor with that scramble game!
Well done
Great vid, thankyou
Super late with this one, was never a big fan of the Amstrad if am honest saying that if these had come out back in the day am sure i would of liked the computer a lot more. Great stuff as always buddy and am looking forward to the next one, tkae it easy man 🙂🙂
If these games came out while the amstrad was released then boom I think it would have done ALOT BETTER. The thing that irked me about the c64 was the colour pallet
Awesome Vid, we are slowly tempting you away from the brown-ness of the C64 lol
Lol... no
Hope you do a video like this for the MSX line of computers in the future. Perhaps even the Atari 8-bits. Edge Grinder and Relentless were also released on the C64 too I believe.
Ill defo do that
@@oldstylegaming +1 on Atari 8-bit! Those systems are stunning yet didn't get as much fanfare.
@@grymmjack im on it all ready mate
Glad to see you've returned! Though, I would of appreciated it if the audio for these games weren't so loud in the video, as some of the background music made my ears sore.
Hmmm i use the same setting as i always do, -15.24 for when im talking and normal 0 for after. I didnt think it was too loud
@@oldstylegaming Maybe it was just me. Though I do find music on the Amstrad to be a bit ear bleeding at times.
@@Cyberbrickmaster1986 if you find the Amstrad music ear bleeding then I guess the same can be said of the Spectrum and Atari ST. I grew up with the Amstrad and loved it, but it was no match for the C64 in the sound department.
Oh man, i was so proud back in the 80s as i got a CPC 6128 , with Green Monitor😂
Slapfight looks amazing!
An interesting video, I was given an Amstrad by somebody I knew, who sadly died, and got rid of it and I wish I kept it.
What the hell is going on here! Nah, I can count myself as once being an Amstrad owner for 1 day. I got it given to me and I chucked it in the bin thinking I needed a monitor. Some good games here I have never seen. Good work with Xyphoe.
You would like the shooters mate... still not up to c64's standards though
@@oldstylegaming I will check the vertical ones out.
@@oldstylegaming Shooters, the category of games that the C64 do well in
Other platforms that you could/should cover in this series: Atari 2600, NES, SNES, Genesis/Mega Drive, and Dreamcast. I own aftermarket releases for them all and would be interested in your take. I'm only interested in those that got physical releases.
The Amstrad was a decent home computer.
If more Devs got behind it seriously it could have easily beat the C64.
Timing is everything.
Most software houses all had Amstrad / C64 / Spectrum conversions, it's not like the Amstrad was niche. It sold 3 million units in 6 years, vs the Spectrum's 5 million in 10 years.
@@renaudg Excellent point. Not sure where this Amstrad didn't have as many games thing comes from to be honest. Poor research. There are games that were converted to all three major 8bit micros ( C64, Spectrum and CPC ). Then there were some who would miss out a format. Say Basildon Bond on CPC and C64 but not Spectrum. You then had a whole host of games from Spain that were CPC and Spectrum and MSX but not C64. And then of course France where it was CPC, ST, Amiga and Thomson but no Spectrum or C64 versions. It's 10 minutes of research people 🙂😅
@@renaudg 1 million in France, 1 million in the UK. The Spectrum was much bigger in the UK than the CPC, and the coders started on the Spectrum years before the CPC. Add to that that, the C64 and Spectrums got many months of coding time, the Amstrad was lucky to get a week. This was the UK
@@ivarfiske1913 Not sure if you're aware, but there were game publishers on the continent too 😄In fact one from that era ended up buying Atari, another (Ubi Soft) is still alive and well thank you very much !
Very few bothered with the Spectrum beyond 1984, and the CPC got first class treatment, as it should.
But in fact that was also true in the UK : you don't get Amstrad conversions like Operation Wolf, Chase HQ, Gryzor, Winter Games, Dragon Ninja, Cybernoid, Exolon, Bombjack, Barbarian, Rainbow Islands, Renegade, Double Dragon... by giving it a week, nope !
The Speccy port phenomenon was largely limited to tiny UK publishers + a few well-known accidents like R-Type, but there were so many other good games available that we simply ignored those.
@@renaudg I am happy to agree with you, not all Amstrad UK games got a week of development time. Some got a real effort. But it would have been so nice to have seen more coders use the CPC well. After all Rhinos effort shows that the Amstrad CPC can do things not even remotely possible on the C64 (or C128)
I love pinball d on my amiga and nightmare was the best table by far if you up the volume quite a bit it sounds awesome the graveyard sounds are awesome, this amstrad model plays very nicely and looks very close to the amiga version.
Being a Canadian, I unfortunately don't have any nostalgia for the Amstrad, but being over 40 I'm old enough to understand how amazing some of these games are running any 8 bit hardware. As always I appreciate the look at games I'll never be able to play on actual hardware and love that people love this hardware enough to develop for it decades after it's commercial life.
I'm a Canadian and my dad was convinced by the salesperson to buy an Amstrad PC. "It's cheaper and 99% Windows compatible!" Sold! lol. It was a fine machine, I suppose. I was young but remember figuring out how to run Leisure Suit Larry to try and get a sneak peek at boobs. Also wandering aimlessly in the desert in, what, King's Quest 3?
An excellent selection of games there. Personally I think _Galactic Tomb_ is brilliant and it would be in my Top 10 list of "best CPC games released after the end of its commercial life" (I refuse to speak of its "demise" - it never died! 🙂). _CPC Soccer_ could have been replaced with its updated sequel, _CPC Soccer 22,_ which I think is even better, but _CPC Soccer_ is nonetheless arguably the best football game for the CPC.
Other 21st century CPC releases that I can recommend to anyone who has watched this video are _BeTiled!, Dead on Time, Dragon Attack_ and _Imperial Mahjong._
I liked dragon attack too but the community less so, cant believe they got the bullet hell feel of cave arcade games onto a cpc
Great vidéo OSG ! I'm personnaly an Amstrad fan (because i begin my first step in gaming on this machine) and never understand all the hate that it got in Great britain. The more important it's the game. Never be in the 8 bit war and never will.😉
I dont think there is a war anymore surely, i didnt like it back then but thats just how kids are...now though i love all things retro
It didn't get hate in Great Britain 😅. Beware revisionist history. Plenty of people in the UK will tell you they had an Amstrad. Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear fame originally wrote for a CPC magazine. There are a couple of stories on the internet regarding gaming journalists first computer being the Amstrad and how it launched their careers in the UK
@@robsmall6466 The publisher that owns (or owned...) Retro Gamer started with an Amstrad CPC magazine
Wow, if the Amstrad could achieve scrolling like that back in the day, I'd have begged my parents to get me one!
For a c64 fanboy I suppose this is a fair as we can expect.
Good video, overall.
I have that computer. Played it while child. Had original "Bubble Bobble" and I can say it was horrible. There were few games which made me think I was playing something impressive. The best ones I played were "Rainbow Islands" (curiously the sequel of "Bubble Bobble") and "The New Zealand Story". There were other good games to me such as "Krakout", "BombJack II", "Crazy Ball" , "Space Harrier", etc. This computer was capable of offering great games and it was clearly unexploited. The remakes of "R-Type", "Bubble Bobble" or "Ghouls'n Goblins" as well as other games shown here are remarkable.
Target renegade was amazing in coopération mode.
to me, fire tyre looks like it is going backwards
CPC was the best of the 8bit computers. Fight me.
No need to fight the truth. Sadly it didn't have the best software support even if the hardware was superior in the right hands
Love the bright colours and great music on the CPC, but the graphics are so blocky and is often so slow. Playability on the c64 and speccy just left the Amstrad in the dust most of the time, although some of these modern efforts are impressive!
They aren't any blockier than the C64 tbh (but with a better palette), and the Amstrad had 2 additional video modes, including 320x200 in 4 colours with no colour clash and still that same palette. Check out Iron Lord, Bob Winner, Rambo 3, Wec Le Mans, Head over Heels..
Alcon should have been no1, not biased of course! 😉
Is it me, or is Orion Prime using System Shock 2 assets? :S
Well spotted. 👍 The development team used an editor for _System Shock 2_ to design the rooms and then grabbed screenshots and converted them to the CPC's screen format.
@@CPCGameReviews I knew it, the colour pallette / models are very distinct.
Has amstrad got similar power to a c64? I never owned an amstrad
I dont get involved in all that power stuff i just care if the games are good... so on that note...no the cpc was no where near the c64 :-)
The original Amstrad CPC was more than a match for the C64. Better in some aspects, not in others. However, if you bring the Amstrad Plus series into the equation then it bettered the C64 in every way - other than the sound department of course. That SID chip was something else!
@@jamesbarker5535 The Plus series were too little, too late. People have done great things with them since, but the only difference between them and the C65 is that the Plus series actually got released.
@@talideon I was just providing an answer to the original question.
Whether the Plus series was too little too late doesn't really matter. It exsited and was more powerful than the C64. Now, if he asked the question, 'which system was more successful, or had the better games' then of course the C64 wins hands down. Anyway, I had fun with both systems back in the day and that is what truly matters 👍
Later developments shows the true potential and superiority of the Amstrad CPC,
Pinball Dreams and the Batman Demo could not have been done on the C64. The incredible upcoming racing game Vespertino do things a C64 coder can't even dream of dreaming.
Well, but can it run Crysis ? 🙂
Wow the Amstrad is really beautiful! I love the double wide pixels. I am definitely going to look more into this system. Thanks OSG. @xyphoe I will check your channel too. Cheers :)
Youll enjoy xyphoes channel
Ghosts n goblins
I wasn't much of a fan of Timothy Gunn. The CPC community are suckers for average games with good scrolling!
I was pushing for Dragon Attack to make the list, and for Orion Prime to make top five. The best 8 bit graphical adventure? I think so too.
I actually had dragon attack in my short list i think if its the bullet hell one as i loved it but it didnt make the final 20 on xys stream
Dunno, that's a bit of a generalisation really. Timothy Gunn may not be your type of game, but once your crack how it's meant to be played it's great for 'pick up and play' blast for 10-20 minutes, I'll still happily play this a few years later if it's requested over any of the other CPCRetroDev games that came above it that year.
@@Xyphoe - you have to admit "the scrolling's not horrible" is likely to mean less to C64 fans.
I reckon a C64 might choke on Dragon Attack though. There's nothing like it on the C64 that I can think of.
@@AnthonyFlack Dragon Attack is great, and technically amazing for what it is doing, I don't think anyone disagrees with that. My only issue is after about 10 or so minutes it's just not that much fun, and I think that's why you find it's not often brought up that much or suggested/requested. Still bloomin' amazing game and technically stunning what it's pulling off. Timothy Gunn is definitely more fun though.
What I will say is, I think I would potentially maybe replace Galactic Tomb with Dragon Attack. It perhaps hasn't aged as well with its lower frame rate.... but there's a lot more to the game than OSG is describing in the short time he has to talk about the game - there's two more levels that has slightly different gameplay each that adds more value, etc like the sub level on level 3. So I dunno....
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After the Amstrad.. pummelled the Commodore 64? 😂
Erm... i cant remember that happening
@@oldstylegaming it’s okay, your getting old 😁❤️
Sword of Ianna not run on original hardware, so not a CPC game.
It does run on original hardware with a dandanator.... its very much a cpc game