Game recommendations

[Gryzor]

Agree with Nreive. I used to play 2 to death on my trusty 1040STFM (1 meg, suck that, Amoeba owners!), but never cared much for 1...

MacDeath makes a series of interesting points. Buitre was actually a great, if underrated and little known (I think) game - it was pretty good in every respect. Who published it?

Also, Microprose... bah. Very small area, terrible colour scheme... This was NOT Microprose soccer! This was probably something that Amsoft coded in '85 and was bought off later on.

[cpc4eva]

Speedball 1 would be a great idea for CPC, but how about Speedball 2?  That also had a C64 conversion, and a pretty good one as well.

A CPC Microprose Soccer with colour and replay effects... Mmmm.

yeah we so need a speedball 1

cpc should had one back in the day why the bitmap brothers didnt make a cpc version ill never know but then why do i get the feeling that if a cpc version had been done then the cpc version would have been very ordinary and the c64 version great....

i never played speedball 2 so not sure about that one but speedball 1 would certainly be a great cpc+ project

[Gryzor]

Oh, believe me, if you liked SB1 then you SHOULD play SB2 on an ST or Amoeba. Tons better.

[cpc4eva]

Speedball 1 does look like it would be a good game to convert to cpc+ maybe Speedball 2 is a bit more involved ??

just been viewing A500 speedball 1 and 2 videos on youtube and wishing there was or had been a cpc/cpc+ version back in the day.  interesting story apparently of how it came about see below.


taken from youtube....

David Whittaker mytical song for Speedball.

Funny story on this one, The Bitmap Brother were working on a game called "Real Tennis", based on the real life game of the same name. But the publisher changed its mind, so the project was scraped. It was then that the Brothers realised they had a game engine able and ready to be the support of a futuristic sport game... and thus, Speedball was born!

And Im sure glad it was, spend a lot of funs times with this one, until Speedball 2 came along.

[Cholo]

Played Speedball 2 before i tried Speedball 1 and it was kinda hard keeping an interest and not return to play the second one again  Anyways, was a lot of great "future sports" games that could need an amstrad version. Like Future Basketball (great 2 player too) and Nitro (3 player craziness) and Jupiters Masterdrive (also multiplayer). Of cause those racers require a lot of fast scrolling and perhaps the amstrad cant really handle that (especially with splitscreens).

Some other thread mentioned Thrust i think. Never really played Thrust myself but did play Turbo Raketti that was a really cool multiplayer clone of Thrust. Was quite basic so the amstrad should at least be able to do that one.

[Gryzor]

You're right bringing Thrust up here. Although it was a great game I think it could really benefit from a gfx overhaul...

[MacDeath]

In france we had a game called Inertie, may be the same concept as thrust but in Mode0.
Great game.

http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=1156
Was from Ubisoft.

[redbox]

In france we had a game called Inertie, may be the same concept as thrust but in Mode0.
Great game.

Ooh thanks for the recommendation, had never seen that one before - I will have to download it and have a go.

[Gryzor]

Me neither! Looks nice

[MacDeath]

It was an Ubisoft early masterpiece.

Because it was early, it wasn't well exported to foreign countries perhaps.

[ukmarkh]

I played it, but it wasn't all that.

[Gryzor]

Emphasis on 'early'?

[redbox]

I played it, but it wasn't all that.

Yes, I prefer Thrust, but it was interesting to see none-the-less.