I wondered if anyone had ever compiled a list (partial or complete) of the Hit Squad titles on CPC?
I know people often collect these titles, what with them being numbered and having uniform sleeves (which is ironic as back in the day I can't imagine anyone choosing these budget re-releases over the originals).
If not then maybe I'll try and put something together, like they did on Lemon one time (http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20266).
Quote from: MartynC on 11:45, 23 September 14
I know people often collect these titles, what with them being numbered and having uniform sleeves (which is ironic as back in the day I can't imagine anyone choosing these budget re-releases over the originals).
I preferred them cos having a small cassette case rather than a big box meant they fit into my sliding tape drawers all nice and neatly. I've never been a big fan of boxes being far larger than necessary to contain the item inside.
Quote from: Carnivac on 16:15, 23 September 14
I preferred them cos having a small cassette case rather than a big box meant they fit into my sliding tape drawers all nice and neatly. I've never been a big fan of boxes being far larger than necessary to contain the item inside.
I'm with you there. Although a lot of the boxes of mine ended up going in the bin at one point due to sheer lack of space. I used to have a LOT of tape games back in my day. ;)
HIT SQUAD Amstrad CPC releases
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- Fun school 2 - For the under-6s
- Fun school 2 - For the over-8s
- Fun School 2 - For 6-8 years olds
- Trivial pursuit - Genus edition
- Pictionary
Arcade 01 Enduro racer
Arcade 02 Green beret
Arcade 03 Crazy cars
Arcade 04 Wizball
Arcade 05 Rampage
Arcade 06 Renegade
Arcade 07 Arkanoid
Arcade 08 Combat school
Arcade 09 Quartet
Arcade 10 Wonder boy
Arcade 11 Slap fight
Arcade 12 Head over heels
Arcade 13 Mikie
Arcade 14 The vindicator
Arcade 15 Nemesis
Arcade 16 Salamander
Arcade 17 Rastan
Arcade 18 R-type
Arcade 19 Target renegade
Arcade 20 Operation wolf
Arcade 21 After burner
Arcade 22 Driller
Arcade 23 Arkanoid - Revenge of Doh
Arcade 24 Gryzor
Arcade 25 Dragonninja
Arcade 26 SDI
Arcade 27 Xybots
Arcade 28 Vindicators
Arcade 29 APB
Arcade 30 Bubble bobble
Arcade 31 Renegade III
Arcade 32 The newzealand story
Arcade 33 Cabal
Arcade 34 Toobin'
Arcade 35 Chase HQ
Arcade 36 Dragon spirit
Arcade 37 Operation thunderbolt
Arcade 38 Altered beast
Arcade 39 Power drift
Arcade 40 Hard drivin'
Arcade 41 Rainbow islands
Arcade 42 Midnight resistance
Arcade 43 Navy moves
Arcade 44 Puffy's saga
Arcade 45 Shadow warriors
Arcade 46 Puzznic
Arcade 47 Escape from the planet of the robot monsters
Arcade 48 Sly spy
Arcade 49 Castle master
Arcade 50 Cyberball
Arcade 51 Klax
Arcade 52 NARC
Arcade 53 Badlands
Arcade 54 STUN runner
Arcade 55 Smash TV
Arcade 56 Pit-fighter
Arcade 57 Space gun
Arcade 58 Skull & crossbones
Movie 01 Rambo
Movie 02 Cobra
Movie 03 Batman
Movie 04 Top gun
Movie 05 Short circuit
Movie 06 The great escape
Movie 07 Miami vice
Movie 08 Predator
Movie 09 Platoon
Movie 10 Star wars
Movie 11 Empire strikes back
Movie 12 Return of the jedi
Movie 13 Batman - The caped crusader
Movie 14 Rambo III
Movie 15 The real ghostbusters
Movie 16 Spitting image
Movie 17 Licence to kill
Movie 18 Red heat
Movie 19 Batman - The movie
Movie 20 Ghostbusters II
Movie 21 The untouchables
Movie 22 Robocop
Movie 23 The spy who loved me
Movie 24 Night breed
Movie 25 Total recall
Movie 26 Hudson Hawk
Movie 27 Terminator II
Movie 28 The simpsons
Movie 29 Darkman
Movie 30 The Addams familiy
Sports 01 Daley Thompson's decathlon
Sports 02 Yie ar kung-fu
Sports 03 Match point
Sports 04 World series baseball
Sports 05 Hypersports
Sports 06 Konami's ping pong
Sports 07 Super sprint
Sports 08 International karate+
Sports 09 Super hang-on
Sports 10 Match day
Sports 11 Daley Thompson's supertest
Sports 12 Shao-Lin's road
Sports 13 Match day II
Sports 14 Daley Thompson's olympic challenge
Sports 15 Run the gauntlet
Sports 16 WEC Le Mans
Sports 17 Last ninja 2
Sports 18 Skate wars
Sports 19 Pro tennis tour
Sports 20 RBI baseball 2
Sports 21 WWF Wrestle mania
I think it is complete. Enjoy it :D
@pinace: Are those versions preserved? If they are similar to the Amiga releases then they use different tape loaders to the original/full price releases. And have you spoken to Bruno for adding this info to CPC-Power?
Yes, last versions use diferent loaders than original versions but only a little are preserved.
pinace, that is fantastic! Thanks for sharing.
Only issue I think is Arcade 57, Space Gun, which was only released on disk on CPC. Arcade 57 should be Super Space Invaders (http://www.cpc-power.com/PictureZoom.php?extra=package&fiche=2141&slot=6&part=A&type=.jpg).
If the list is complete, then it is the same as the Spectrum list except from the above, Space Gun, and Sports 03 which is Match Point on CPC and Konami's Tennis on Spec.
Actually, Super Space Invaders is Arcade 58 on the Spectrum...
Nice list.
We need a double check of this list against the inlays of the cpc versions and a mark indicating if it has been dumped or not.
Quote from: MartynC on 10:08, 24 September 14
pinace, that is fantastic! Thanks for sharing.
Only issue I think is Arcade 57, Space Gun, which was only released on disk on CPC. Arcade 57 should be Super Space Invaders (http://www.cpc-power.com/PictureZoom.php?extra=package&fiche=2141&slot=6&part=A&type=.jpg).
Yes, Arcade 57 is Super Space Invaders... I use an old list ^_^
I have edited the list and think it's fine and complete.
The Hit Squad Amstrad CPC
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- Fun school 2 - For the under-6s
- Fun school 2 - For the over-8s
- Fun School 2 - For 6-8 years olds
- Trivial pursuit - Genus edition
- Pictionary
Arcade 01 Enduro racer
Arcade 02 Green beret
Arcade 03 Crazy cars
Arcade 04 Wizball
Arcade 05 Rampage
Arcade 06 Renegade
Arcade 07 Arkanoid
Arcade 08 Combat school
Arcade 09 Quartet
Arcade 10 Wonder boy
Arcade 11 Slap fight
Arcade 12 Head over heels
Arcade 13 Mikie
Arcade 14 The vindicator
Arcade 15 Nemesis
Arcade 16 Salamander
Arcade 17 Rastan
Arcade 18 R-type
Arcade 19 Target renegade
Arcade 20 Operation wolf
Arcade 21 After burner
Arcade 22 Driller
Arcade 23 Arkanoid - Revenge of Doh
Arcade 24 Gryzor
Arcade 25 Dragonninja
Arcade 26 SDI
Arcade 27 Xybots
Arcade 28 Vindicators
Arcade 29 APB
Arcade 30 Bubble bobble
Arcade 31 Renegade III
Arcade 32 The newzealand story
Arcade 33 Cabal
Arcade 34 Toobin'
Arcade 35 Chase HQ
Arcade 36 Dragon spirit
Arcade 37 Operation thunderbolt
Arcade 38 Altered beast
Arcade 39 Power drift
Arcade 40 Hard drivin'
Arcade 41 Rainbow islands
Arcade 42 Midnight resistance
Arcade 43 Navy moves
Arcade 44 Puffy's saga
Arcade 45 Shadow warriors
Arcade 46 Puzznic
Arcade 47 Escape from the planet of the robot monsters
Arcade 48 Sly spy
Arcade 49 Castle master
Arcade 50 Cyberball
Arcade 51 Klax
Arcade 52 NARC
Arcade 53 Badlands
Arcade 54 STUN runner
Arcade 55 Smash TV
Arcade 56 Pit-fighter
Arcade 57 Super space invaders
Arcade 58 Skull & crossbones
Movie 01 Rambo
Movie 02 Cobra
Movie 03 Batman
Movie 04 Top gun
Movie 05 Short circuit
Movie 06 The great escape
Movie 07 Miami vice
Movie 08 Predator
Movie 09 Platoon
Movie 10 Star wars
Movie 11 Empire strikes back
Movie 12 Return of the jedi
Movie 13 Batman - The caped crusader
Movie 14 Rambo III
Movie 15 The real ghostbusters
Movie 16 Spitting image
Movie 17 Licence to kill
Movie 18 Red heat
Movie 19 Batman - The movie
Movie 20 Ghostbusters II
Movie 21 The untouchables
Movie 22 Robocop
Movie 23 The spy who loved me
Movie 24 Night breed
Movie 25 Total recall
Movie 26 Hudson Hawk
Movie 27 Terminator II
Movie 28 The simpsons
Movie 29 Darkman
Movie 30 The Addams familiy
Sports 01 Daley Thompson's decathlon
Sports 02 Yie ar kung-fu
Sports 03 Match point
Sports 04 World series baseball
Sports 05 Hypersports
Sports 06 Konami's ping pong
Sports 07 Super sprint
Sports 08 International karate+
Sports 09 Super hang-on
Sports 10 Match day
Sports 11 Daley Thompson's supertest
Sports 12 Shao-Lin's road
Sports 13 Match day II
Sports 14 Daley Thompson's olympic challenge
Sports 15 Run the gauntlet
Sports 16 WEC Le Mans
Sports 17 Last ninja 2
Sports 18 Skate wars
Sports 19 Pro tennis tour
Sports 20 RBI baseball 2
Sports 21 WWF Wrestle mania
@pinace (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=52): And do you have a list of the "Serie Leyenda" and other spanish re-releases?
@SyX: No I haven't, but I think there would be no problem in doing it if I consult my game list, deepfb game list and Abraxas game list :)
I only have lists of KIXX, CodeMasters, Players, Hi-Tec, Atlantis.... I made it a few years ago to complete my CPC software collection.
Some great releases on that list...
When I was a kid I didn't differentiate between big boxes and budget releases and indeed the latter fit into my drawers much easier (though big boxes looked much nicer). Nowadays, however, I don't bother with budget re-releases...
Quote from: Gryzor on 10:10, 28 September 14
Some great releases on that list...
When I was a kid I didn't differentiate between big boxes and budget releases and indeed the latter fit into my drawers much easier (though big boxes looked much nicer). Nowadays, however, I don't bother with budget re-releases...
even as a kid I would tend towards a big box offering. Mainly because these could be found on disc and I had a Cpc 464 + dktronics 64k expansion + ddi1, and after that a 6128plus so I'd always want the disc original if available and then need the disc original for the tape socket free plus .
Quote from: Gryzor on 10:10, 28 September 14
Some great releases on that list...
When I was a kid I didn't differentiate between big boxes and budget releases and indeed the latter fit into my drawers much easier (though big boxes looked much nicer). Nowadays, however, I don't bother with budget re-releases...
wow they still do budget re-releases?!!
no doubt an impressive line up in that list, think i have half of those as original, and plenty i never got!
Quote from: pinace on 23:37, 27 September 14
@SyX (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=324): No I haven't, but I think there would be no problem in doing it if I consult my game list, deepfb game list and Abraxas game list :)
I only have lists of KIXX, CodeMasters, Players, Hi-Tec, Atlantis.... I made it a few years ago to complete my CPC software collection.
That is amazing! :) And i think that it should be documented at least in the wiki, because when i'm looking budget games for comparing games with other 8 bits systems, i need to remember company names... and thinking about it, i don't know if Elite's budget label "Encore" (if i'm not wrong), made CPC releases.
Of course SyX, Encore made CPC releases: All the Elite and Durell catalog :)
Encore Amstrad CPC releases
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1942
007 - Live and Let Die
3DC
A Question of Sport
ACE + ACE 2
Airwolf
Airwolf 2
Battle Ships
Batty
Beyond the Ice Palace
Bomb jack
Bomb jack II
Buggy boy
Chain reaction
Combat lynx
Commando
Critical mass
Deep strike
Dragon's Lair
Dragon's Lair II: Escape From Singe's Castle
Frank Bruno's Boxing
Frank Bruno's World Championship Boxing - Commemorative Issue Bruno vs. Tyson
Ghosts'n Goblins
Great Gurianos
Hopping mad
Ikari warriors
Kokotoni wilf
Mike Read's Computer Pop Quiz
Overlander
Paperboy
Passing shot
Saboteur
Saboteur II
Scooby Doo
Sigma 7
Space harrier
Spitfire
Storm warrior
Super Trux
Thanatos
Thundercats
Turbo Esprit
Wanderer 3D
excellent guys thanks for the info i just need the addams family and skull & crossbones to complete the set. :D
cheers!!!!
i think i need 1 or 2 hitsquad to complete the set, i recently found puffy's saga.
tracked down the addams family only the 2nd 1 i have seen just need skull & crossbones if it was ever released!!!!!!! ;D
When i went to England with my school in 93, i remember i saw addams family hit squad release in many shops. Amstrad Action reviewed it too.
if you want to get the full list for each hitsquad series made, check on CPC-power. (i've processed all the dumps for CPCmaniaco)
There are the full Arcade, Movie and sports collections listed by number.