Huuum... it is quite difficult because many of my favorite games begin with the same letter, buy anyway, these are the games I played the most back in time (they are not necessarily the better, but what I had available :D ).
- A - AMC (Astro Marine Corps)
- B – Baby Jo
- C - Cozumel (La Diosa de Cozumel)
- D - Dustin
- E - Exolon
- F – Forgotten Worlds
- G - Game Over
- H – Hero Quest
- I - Ice Breaker
- J - Jabato
- K – Knight Force
- L - LED Storm
- M – Mario Bros
- N - Navy Moves
- O - Orion Prime
- P - Psyborg
- Q - Quartet
- R - Rescate Atlántida
- S - Savage
- T – Turrican I and II
- U -
- V - Viaje al Centro de la Tierra
- W – Wings of Fury
- X – X-OUT
- Y -
- Z - Zombi
Of course, nowadays the game I play the most is Doomsday Lost Echoes! :laugh: :laugh:
Some of these I really struggled to find a game I liked starting with the letter.
A - Anarchy
B - Blues Brothers
C - Chuckie Egg
D - Donkey Kong
E - Exolon
F - Fruity Frank
G - Gauntlet 2
H - Hydrofool
I - Impossaball *
J - (no idea)
K - Knight Lore
L - Loopz
M - Magicland Dizzy
N - (no idea)
O - Oh Mummy *
P - Pipe Mania
Q - (no idea)
R - Ranarama
S - Spindizzy
T - Turrican 2
U - (no idea)
V - (no idea)
W - Wild West Seymour
X - (no idea)
Y - (no idea)
Z - Zub
Silkworm was definitely second in my list. I love the game and I finished it with my cousin after a playing marathon :D
Wow! Thanks for all of your contributions guys. I love it that there is quite a different range from of all us and shows that although our trusty machines came out later than other 8 bits there was still a wealth of games available. There are plenty on your lists that I have never experienced before as well but will do now!
I listed it and I love the game , don't think anyone else cares for it though.
Out of that popular game type of the early days I think it is a pretty good example of the genre
Decided to go a bit further into detail with these. I know some of these are obscure choices. So here goes.
Quote from: Shaun M. Neary on 03:32, 13 May 16
Aliens
This game was just so large. It kept me occupied for months in 87. I never got to finish this one, I don't do cheats, so needless to say, there are many games on my bucket list that I still have to complete.
QuoteBatman The Movie
Loved this one! I actually prefer this to Robocop, even though the main sprites movement is pretty much the same. Was a big fan of the movie, I still am to this day, although the Batwing on level 4 is very frustrating, It usually leaves me with one life left if I'm very lucky, leaving me shit out of luck for the final level.
QuoteCombat School
Another one I never got to finish until recently. The fight with instructor level had a bug in it which crashed the second I landed a hit in, oddly enough I could take all the hits until I died and it was never a problem!
QuoteDeflektor
First ever puzzle game I ever got to play which got the ball rolling on a genre of games I would become hooked on. A lot of people credit Tetris for that, but this was mine.
QuoteE-Motion
The most bland looking game you'll ever see, but it kept me going for a long time, in fact, I wasted quite a warm summer in 1990 clicking away at this one.
QuoteFlimbos Quest
Doesn't really need explaining. It still frustrates me that during this period of the Amstrad, that some of it's best work was release as the ship was pulling out of the harbour. As I'd discover from books over the years, a lot of the programmers had a very difficult time working with the machine that by the time they'd finally mastered it, the 16bit market had really sunk it's teeth into the consumer. Shame.
QuoteGauntlet II
Was a massive fan of the arcade, played it before I played the original too as in my home town, there wasn't really much to do until a snooker hall opened up in 87, and this was one of the games that featured in it. A four player option in the arcade was so immense, so I was just happy that a two player option was still a thing as so many conversions dropped it (Ninja Warriors, Bionic Commandos, Bad Dudes vs DragonNinja, etc).
QuoteHunchback II
This was just old school classic fun! Plus it loaded from tape in about two minutes, enough time to run downstairs, grab something to drink and go back upstairs again. Good times.
QuoteIndiana Jones & The Last Crusade
I couldn't really care for it's bland pale blue graphics, but when I'd seen some of my friends still running on a green screen monitor, I'd realised how much I'd taken colour for granted and that it was all about the game and not it's appearance. Nice mix of difficulty as the game progressed too. It'd been reviewed in the first AA that I'd bought for years, AA 49, the Shinobi demo issue (which would get me in a habit of buying it for further years), so I'd obtained a lot of games that had been reviewed by it.
QuoteJackal
This game gets cursed from a height by a lot of people but I loved it. I loved a lot of the Konami classics from the mid 80s if truth be told, so when I got my hands on Konami's Arcade Collection at the end of 88, they got played to death, including this one. I distinctly remember one of my exams being cancelled in 89 and we were all sent home, and firing this one up to play it. I think I'd played it early in the morning before I went to school too. Priorities!
QuoteKlax
I remember being really excited when Domark and Tengen buddied up for a rake of coin up conversion, and being disappointed by quite an amount of them, Xybots, Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters, Badlands and STUN Runner being a few of them, so Klax was a real diamond in the rough.
QuoteLeaderboard
I enjoy pitch and putt, but Golf actually bores me, the poncey clothes, the sheer snobbery in the clubs, and it's about as interesting to watch as paint dry, but Leaderboard did have a simulator feel to it too, especially if you were able to memorise all the clubs and the distance they made your ball go, it became a very satisfying game to play. World Class Leaderboard trumped it a couple of years later too.
QuoteMagicland Dizzy
I actually didn't get to play this one until 1993! The sales of the Nintendo and Master System had skyrocketed during the 80s, and with the Megadrive surfacing in the early 90s, 8 bit software was getting harder to come by unless you found em in some corner of a rinky dink shop down a side street. I enjoyed this one more than I did Fantasy World Dizzy, but I wished that this, and subsequent games would have taken advantage of the full screen.
QuoteNebulus
One for the 'I can't believe it's not an arcade conversion' pile. And probably my favourite non licenced games. I only finished this properly back about five years ago. Shame it misses the bonus stages, but it's still so good, that you can almost forgive it.
QuoteOperation Wolf
Wasn't to impressed with it in the arcade, I couldn't quite get the co-ordination right using the gun controller, even if it was quite revolutionary for it's time, but loved it on the Amstrad. I could never get past level 4 because my tape version wouldn't load level 5. Upon trying to play it now, I'm lucky if I can get past level 2 now!
QuotePacland
Another one I loved in the arcades as a kid. This actually looks and plays quite well on the Amstrad compared to the coin op, it's a real faithful conversion which is why I love it so much. Many people gasp in horror when I list it in my top ten. I remember Kev Thacker and Dave Wykes thinking I was batshit crazy when I listed it as my favourite at the time in 95, but I was into a lot of odd games that year, including Buggy Boy!!
QuoteQuestor
I have no excuse here, it's the best of a bad bunch out of the limited range beginning with Q that I'd actually played. It's pretty decent as far as graphic adventures go though, but I get bored of Graphic Adventures easily as I find myself going around in circles a lot.
QuoteRenegade
A lot of hate for this game here regarding it's controls, but I found it a piece of piss on the CPC to get used to them. On an emulator nowadays, it's completely unplayable on a controller, so it's keyboard or bust. It's a bit of a shadow of it's arcade counterpart, such as the over the shoulder throw that's missing from it, but for early 87, it's one of the better games that came out that year.
QuoteSilkworm
So much two player fun that happened in 1990 as a result of this! Loved it in the arcades as well. Graphically, it's a little bland due to the lack of background, which could have been taken care of (look at the awesome P47 Thunderbolt for example!). I was always the jeep btw.
QuoteTeenage Mutant Hero Turtles - The Coin Op
Another example of the Amstrad's capabilities taken advantage of, but it was too little too late. This was the game everyone was waiting for after the disaster of it's predecessor the year beforehand. Although I think turtle power had run it's course by the time the game finally saw the light in 1991.
QuoteUntouchables
What was it with speccy ports, that all my favourite games were several shades of blue?! You can blame AA's christmas 89 covertape for wanting me to get my hands on this one. Another one I never finished, but it was a fun little jaunt of a game.
QuoteVindicators
Another Domark/Tengen conversions that did quite well. The graphics were a little blocker than they should have been given the machines capabilities, but this was another one that kept me occupied during 1990.
QuoteWonder Boy
Loved, loved, LOVED this in the Arcade. The CPC version is a little slower, but it's still perfectly playable. The difficulty really ramps up once you get past the fourth boss. Sadly, it's one of those kind of games where some people can find it a bit slow and plodding that they end up switching off the monitor and ramming something else into the tape deck instead. Only got to finish this one four or five years ago too. Lack of game ending sequence was disappointing to say the least.
QuoteX-Out
After the balls up that was R-Type, this was welcomed, even if it was slightly delayed on release, the wait was well worth it.
QuoteYie Ar Kung Fu
Where Street Fighter's origins really began. I'm actually back playing the arcade version of this again due to setting up my PS2 with OPL and getting it to load PS1 games too. The CPC version is nicely done, didn't take too long to load from tape, and no multi load hell to deal with. I love pre 87 games so much for that factor alone.
QuoteZynaps
Pre R-Type if I recall correctly, and like typical Hewson's catalogue of games, fiendishly difficult to say the least!
Not bothering with the numbered ones, I figured you guys have read enough!