Amstrad disk only games?

[Cholo]

I had Baby Jo on tape back in day.

Sure you are not thinking of Jack The Nipper game instead? Jack & Joe sounds a lot the same.


I recall many of the text adventures, even being on both disc and tape, the disc version was unique/different. Like Level 9 Adventures usually had a "full Graphics" version on disc along with a CPC, PCW and spec +3 version all in one. Pretty sure the tape version didnt have all that.

[AMSDOS]

Trakers was home-brew? I have it on disk, professionally put together. This game is really good, but you will need to map it to progress, unless you use mass amounts of trial and error. I know every location inside out, sad really but this was one of the only games I was into at the time, there's only so many times I can play the Dizzy games.

Well I never purchased the game, so I think it was one of those games they were trying to get it distributed through a software house, but ended up distributing it themselves, which would make it home-brew. The AA review of it also stated they were only selling it for a Tenner on Disc.

There was another game around the same time, Reckless Rufus on disk, I think it was a tank game, not sure if this received a cassette release.

The Reckless Rufus game I know was a budget game from Alternative, reviewed in AA86 scoring an Rave (83%), the Tank game is another Alternative title reviewed in AA84 called Hideous and that scored 88%.  To my knowledge those games were never full-price commercial games so will only be on Cassette.

Did Nigel Mansell's World Championship from Gremlin ever appear on disk?

Don't know, Rod Lawton was leaving AA just prior to the review of that game, if ever there was an missing disc conspiracy involving Mode 1 car racing games, I'd say Rod brought out every last disc! 

I also have a game called Bally Hoo or something along those lines, question marks for that game as well.

Nothing springs to mind here.

[Nich]

Sure you are not thinking of Jack The Nipper game instead? Jack & Joe sounds a lot the same.

No. I clearly recall seeing a cassette version of Baby Jo on eBay a few months ago.

I recall many of the text adventures, even being on both disc and tape, the disc version was unique/different. Like Level 9 Adventures usually had a "full Graphics" version on disc along with a CPC, PCW and spec +3 version all in one. Pretty sure the tape version didnt have all that.

I think the cassette versions of these games didn't have any graphics at all - and I agree that the 'triple format disc' was really cool!

[zeropolis79]

Gremlins Nigel Masell did come out on disc - I have it now. I always believed it was disc only until I saw a tape version on ebay last year.

Reckless Rufus and Hideous were tape only

[ukmarkh]

Gremlins Nigel Masell did come out on disc - I have it now. I always believed it was disc only until I saw a tape version on ebay last year.

Reckless Rufus and Hideous were tape only

I think I have Hideous on disk?