Just was interested to know what the opinion is on how different countries have added to getting the most out of our machine?
When you look at the games on our machine , they all have a style that points to there origin. Which country do you think excels at what skill on the CPC?
U.K.
France
Spain.
Germany.
And which country has the largest Amstrad scene ?
Obviously the UK is first, that's where the CPC came from. They also did some pretty good games.
France and Spain are definitely known for their excellent games. Germany was more known for hardware expansions.
And a very special mention has to go to Ireland, who gave us Tastefulmrship :D
Bryce.
Here my opinion (best ranked first):
- Germany
- France
- Spain
- UK
Here is my List
UK for the most games with some real gems
Germany/France for some amazing looking games
Spain for amazing looking games but way too hard Mr Dinamic
MY personal view are.
U.K. for the best straight forward well built games.
Spain. Some fantastic looking games that maybe a touch to difficult . A lot of effort seemed to come from here.
France. From one extreme to the other, some very odd and awkward games , to some very unusual,left field games that look good and play very intelligently.
Germany. Very few games that I know of, but the ones I do know , look great and play great .
If we are to descend into a nationalistic slanging match then people will have to provide evidence to back up their claims.
Which post do you feel was derogatory ?
None in particular, (maybe the wording in my post was too strong), but that's the direction these sort of threads tend to go in (on other forums).
UK : thx for getting us the best majority of the ZXspectrum48 emulated on our beloved CPC. ::) and for the rest of course.
Germany : thx for the gam...er... professional softwares (and perhaps a very few spielen). I guess routines designed to manage extra RAM or ROM box are considered games, there in germany. :laugh:
Spain : yeah, you are awesome, perhaps a few speccyports here and there but nice curvy chicas in comics style colourfull graphics anyway. ;)
So yeah, France of course.
well, UK managed to also give great stuff.
Australia, Greece, rest of the world ? would be great to know.
Was Melbourne house an actual Aussie company ?
BTW, gotta remember UBIsoft's very first product was Zombi on CPC.
French games companies made a great lot of Mode1 adventure games but too few of them were actually translated I guess and they lack proper RPG mecanics IMO.
True fact : having the 8bit market literally unified by Amstrad gave French company the opportunity to have a big home market with less standards/machines, hence better profitability, Europe having frontiers at the time, French companies would also distribute games from other countries, and big home market was a nice thing to have.
And the amstrad was good because : powerfull basic, simple yet efficient video modes, "unified" Data storage sold with machine, good monitor, nice texts in Mode2, sweet keyboards... a machine that breed coders (or wankers like me).
So french videogame industry is still strong these days actually.
Happy thinking about Loriciel.
Spain : more different 8bit formats, less population, so it didn't worked that well on the long run (sadly)
Germany : playing with utilitaries ? ok...
Brits : Tapes ? speccies ? how do you produces great graphic artists with those ?
Na, kidding but some aspects are (sad but) true.
I believe Melbourne House was owned by the Mirror Group of newspapers a UK media Group which also had Mirror Soft
Quote from: steve on 23:25, 10 September 13
None in particular, (maybe the wording in my post was too strong), but that's the direction these sort of threads tend to go in (on other forums).
Hopefully it won't go down that route !
;)
Quote from: TFM on 22:10, 10 September 13
Here my opinion (best ranked first):
- Germany
- France
- Spain
- UK
Without stating why, your list doesn't really say anything (other than the fact that you are German) :D
Bryce.
My opinion:
France
UK
Spain
I wanted to put Germany last, but only because I am not familiar with the impact of the CPC there.
I was going to put the UK first, but the French took the CPC to heart and I think they bettered the UK in their release of games and demos.
Next UK just for the amount of games, but I didn't want to exclude Spain which also released a load of cracking good games - although hard at times.
Germany was difficult for me to place - I have seen some cracking demos and utlitities from Germany, but less so for the games. I don't remember much of an impact when I was reading AA magazine - less mention of them compared to France, UK and Spain who all got good mentions.
I voted France first, but I come from the UK !
The only german game company that I can remember is Magic Bytes / Micro partner.
Quote from: dcdrac on 23:35, 10 September 13
I believe Melbourne House was owned by the Mirror Group of newspapers a UK media Group which also had Mirror Soft
Melbourne House started out in Australia as a traditional publisher and branched into software at the start of the 1980s under the name Beam; a UK division of Melbourne House soon followed and it was that, along with the name, which was what was sold to Mastertronic around 1987. Virgin ended up with the name when they took over Mastertronic.
Well I don't know where Richard Wilson comes from, but he lives here in Australia, so I think robbing Australia of a mention is sad. :'(
Is he the Executioner ;) ?
Do you mean Executioner?
Quote from: AMSDOS on 11:55, 11 September 13
Well I don't know where Richard Wilson comes from, but he lives here in Australia, so I think robbing Australia of a mention is sad. :'(
Yes.
I think instead of it being "which country is better" perhaps we should put a summary on the wiki of which companies existed in each country perhaps that would give an indication of how big the machine was in each country at the time.
Wasn't Turrican a German development? And Black Land?
Yes the Executioner ! ;D sorry!
Although I think the 'my country is better than your country' is nonsense (hey, we all live in CPC world), I think the development of the platform across regions is of some interest.
The UK CPC coders tended to all gravitate towards financial reward. It was all make a game, sell it, move on to the next, sell it, move on to another platform and make money from that instead. Therefore, the UK coders all tend to follow the path of the wider evolution of the computer scene (i.e. leaving 8-bit in 1988/89 and moving onto 16-bit).
In France, the CPC (to me) seems to have had a longer life commercially. This could explain the high technical competence of French coders because they used the platform for longer and hence were able to get more out of it.
And the Germans tended to make very good hardware additions, but as said previously, the software wasn't always that great.
As for the Spanish - I think this is an exception to all of the above as it seems to have developed at it's own speed with quite a bit of volatility inbetween with sporadic releases etc.
Quote from: Puresox on 13:09, 11 September 13
Wasn't Turrican a German development? And Black Land?
i think
Turrican was
designed in Germany but converted by Probe?
Well, the question if formulated very open... My judgement is based on quality only, with completely ignoring quantity. If I judge based on quantity, then everything turns around.
Further I guess that everybody knows most about software of the own country, because it was/(is?) the most easy to get.
Another point is all non-english software. F.e. there are a lot of great prods from Spain, France and Germany, but nearly nobody outside the county knows about it, because other just don't understand the foreign language.
To answer you second question: "And which country has the largest (current?) Amstrad scene ?".
Had a quick look at my youtube statistics that says in the last month viewers origin from:
27,1% France
16,4% United Kingdom
13,6% Spain
6.1% Germany
6,1% USA
4,0% Greece
And then a bunch of smaller ones.
Must say its pretty much as id imagine. Not that it can be trusted entirely .. like what is the odd USA doing there in the list. Still, no doubt there is a really big french scene & a lot of french retro channels as well.
The C64 scene is still very active in the U.S. Maybe they are watching your videos to see what games with more colours than brown look like? :D
Bryce.
Quote from: Cholo on 21:11, 11 September 13
6,1% USA
That's me ;D
But you bring up an good idea. We also could take a look at the CPCWiki members and the origin of their IP addresses. But I guess some admin can do that only.
Quote from: Bryce on 21:31, 11 September 13
The C64 scene is still very active in the U.S. Maybe they are watching your videos to see what games with more colours than brown look like? :D
Bryce.
Be fair, they got some shady grey too. :D
Quote from: TFM on 21:34, 11 September 13
That's me ;D
6.1% in Germany too... It's you again? XD
Quote from: Bryce on 21:31, 11 September 13
The C64 scene is still very active in the U.S. Maybe they are watching your videos to see what games with more colours than brown look like? :D
Bryce.
True that may explain it, there is a lot of comparing videos as well and the "who is best" is clearly still importent.
Quote from: TotO on 21:59, 11 September 13
6.1% in Germany too... It's you again? XD
No that's Octoate ;D
Quote from: Cholo on 21:11, 11 September 13
6,1% USA
I don't understand how USA could have more interest when Amstrad's weren't even sold there. Australia on the other hand was (excluding the 464/6128 Plus & GX4000 Console), and I've seen more people from Australia come here Vs. Yeeh-ha A-merry-cans. 8)
French peoples that leave the "old country" for the USA... :-X
Quote from: AMSDOS on 09:40, 12 September 13
I don't understand how USA could have more interest when Amstrad's weren't even sold there. Australia on the other hand was (excluding the 464/6128 Plus & GX4000 Console), and I've seen more people from Australia come here Vs. Yeeh-ha A-merry-cans. 8)
Amstrad launched the 6128 in the USA didn't they? if so they must have sold a few.
I think its doesnt make sense to speak of countries.
Best CPC games for me were made by EGS from Austria but released by Titus who is from France..
Which one counts?
Quote from: steve on 15:15, 12 September 13
Amstrad launched the 6128 in the USA didn't they? if so they must have sold a few.
Probably 2 or 3.
Quote from: steve on 15:15, 12 September 13
Amstrad launched the 6128 in the USA didn't they? if so they must have sold a few.
Yepp. There was a reason for the 60 Hz mode ;)
BTW: Neither 6128 Plus nor GX4000 have been launched in Germany, nevertheless sceners managed to get them. And they are still in use. :)
To be serious:
Germany is out. They only made things for the Schneider CPC...
So, my list:
- UK (because most software companies were settled there)
- Spain (because Indescomp or later Dinamic and Opera Soft)
- France (because very nice demos)
- Greece (because Gryzor) :laugh:
Austria really should be considered too - and some other countries too. :)
Quote from: Devilmarkus on 19:40, 12 September 13
- France (because very nice demos)
You say that, but there were some really impressive French games back in the day released outside France; PURPLE SATURN DAY, CAPTAIN BLOOD, MACH 3, etc. PSD, for example, was the first CPC game I played that looked and played like a fat-pixeled 16-bit game.
Therefore, I think France needs to be considered higher than UK (even though UK did give us Martin Galway, Rob Hubbard & DAVE "THE GOD" ROGERS)
* Martin Galway was born in NORTHERN IRELAND... so he is "British".
Quote from: steve on 15:15, 12 September 13
Amstrad launched the 6128 in the USA didn't they? if so they must have sold a few.
Ok, this is what I found:
QuoteThe CPC6128 was released in August 1985 and initially only sold in the USA. Imported and distributed by Indescomp, Inc. of Chicago, it was the first Amstrad product to be sold in the United States, a market that at the time was traditionally hostile towards European computer manufacturers.[nb]Amstrad Computer User. August 1985. P. 7[/nb]
I still think they would of sold more here in Australia given they were selling 464s,664s & 6128s, we even had our own Australian Magazine(s) dedicated to those machines. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC) failed to mention the launch of the machines here in Australia even though it mentions the Australian Magazine TAU.
Well, one issue of CPC Schneider International brought a report about the release of the 6128 in the USA back the day. Your information is correct. :-D
Quote from: AMSDOS on 23:21, 12 September 13
Ok, this is what I found:
I still think they would of sold more here in Australia given they were selling 464s,664s & 6128s, we even had our own Australian Magazine(s) dedicated to those machines. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC) failed to mention the launch of the machines here in Australia even though it mentions the Australian Magazine TAU.
Yeah - the Main Wikipedia can be a bit light on facts sometimes :D . Amstrad was big here (as well as New Zealand! Don't forget about New Zealand!). Remember - Amstrads were launched here by AWA-Thorn (and had AWA Microcomputer instead of Amstrad Microcomputer). Yep - we had 2 mags - TAU and CWTA-AU - but I don't think we are known big time as having/ producing big time software houses and/or games. Barrier Reef by Melbourne House comes to mind. So do a few cricket related games... Of course - thinking about NZ, there's also 'The New Zealand Story' not made by anyone in New Zealand!
Being former British crown colonies (and still constitutional monarchies) , I think we will just piggy back on the mother country.
God bless the Queen ("Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith")
(and all our former and future Kings). :D
Do not forget the great games from Egypt! :D
How many were there?
Quote from: Border_7 on 06:25, 13 September 13
but I don't think we are known big time as having/ producing big time software houses and/or games. Barrier Reef by Melbourne House comes to mind. So do a few cricket related games...
I thought Melbourne House/Beam were supposed to be fairly well known in the early days at least for The Hobbit & The Way of the Exploding Fist? But perhaps the local connection made them seem more significant than they might have actually been at the time. ;)
Quote from: Border_7 on 06:25, 13 September 13
Yeah - the Main Wikipedia can be a bit light on facts sometimes :D . Amstrad was big here (as well as New Zealand! Don't forget about New Zealand!). Remember - Amstrads were launched here by AWA-Thorn (and had AWA Microcomputer instead of Amstrad Microcomputer). Yep - we had 2 mags - TAU and CWTA-AU - but I don't think we are known big time as having/ producing big time software houses and/or games. Barrier Reef by Melbourne House comes to mind. So do a few cricket related games... Of course - thinking about NZ, there's also 'The New Zealand Story' not made by anyone in New Zealand!
I'm not fussy, if the Kiwi's wanna nominate themselves, they can go right ahead. ;D
When it comes to programs, I think Aust are more caught up in Text Adventures. TAU probably started that with Lengthy Type-Ins, though there was an Adventure game developed here which was sold for a price. I think it was called "Ice Warrior" or something along those lines, though I wasn't into Adventure games, so never really checked it out properly. It was in a scan from The PC Mag though, which just had a page about it.
This may sound crazy, but from my point of view I never linked "Melbourne House" with Australia. To me it appeared as if it was another UK publishing company. I don't remember anywhere in the magazines it ever pointed out that it was software from Australia.
The magazines made us fully aware that Dinamic was a Spanish publisher, Loriciels and Titus were French. We didn't hear so much from the other French companies, perhaps they didn't distribute so much into the UK. It wasn't clear about Rainbow Arts, in the UK or.. although I was aware that Turrican was a German made game originally on c64.
There was nothing so clear in the UK magazines that said "this is a German games company"... so that is why in the early years there was less info from Germany.
So, CPCs in other countries other than France, Germany, Spain were almost a suprise. I knew of users in Switzerland and Austria when I swapped games and demos but this was later.
I think the UK magazines didn't give us an insight into the rest of the world.
So, perhaps this is why it was not so obvious there was a big following in Australia.
So I ask, was there much Amstrad software from Australia other than Melbourne House?
Quote from: arnoldemu on 17:09, 13 September 13
So I ask, was there much Amstrad software from Australia other than Melbourne House?
It's a good question and sadly I cannot find any definitive answer to highlight has been made in Australia. I found out though that Melbourne House was really two companies, Melbourne House was the UK division, in Australia they were known as Beam Software (which has been documented on this Wiki).
Wikipedia seems to have the only clues from a List of Amstrad CPC games (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amstrad_CPC_games) with corresponding publishers and the countries they came from, though it sadly doesn't group them together from the countries they came from. :'(
Was this really Australian ?
http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=330 (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=330)
:laugh:
French companies had good and less good stuffs anyway.
Loriciel : great company. started on ORIC but went to Amstrad because Amstrad took all the market.
ORIC as in lORICiel... ORIC sold very well for its time in France. was the ProtoCPC of a sort.
UBIsoft : still exist, nice adventure games and a few great action games.
Infograme : became "Atari"... yeah. Lots of "comics" related adventure games if I remember well.
Titus : lots of good looking shits. used to develop for others as well.
ERE informatique : was great be early era of the CPC. went into EXXOS. Ulrich was a great "father" of the French video game industry. Really endearing company.
Silmarils : late company, did only 3 games but they are actully quite impressive IMO.
Microïds : I think they were french. Good stuff as well, great graphics anyway.
There may be others of course.
France games often had interesting graphics and sometimes strange sort of games.
(http://www.cpc-power.com/extra_lire_fichier.php?extra=cpcold&fiche=400&slot=2&part=A&type=.png)
(http://www.cpc-power.com/extra_lire_fichier.php?extra=cpcold&fiche=718&slot=4&part=A&type=.png)
(http://www.cpc-power.com/extra_lire_fichier.php?extra=cpcold&fiche=346&slot=2&part=A&type=.png)
(http://www.cpc-power.com/extra_lire_fichier.php?extra=cpcold&fiche=864&slot=1&part=A&type=.png)
(http://www.cpc-power.com/extra_lire_fichier.php?extra=cpcold&fiche=1337&slot=2&part=A&type=.png)
Some great info there! Didn't Realize the link with Oric.
Loriciels
Ubisoft
Ere
Infograme
Microids
Silmarils
Titus- Sort of
All have some classic games in their arsenal. Inventive and thought provoking.
Quote from: arnoldemu on 17:09, 13 September 13
So I ask, was there much Amstrad software from Australia other than Melbourne House?
Not that I was aware of, except for the educational software I think was produced by the SA state govt, I think under the name Satchel Software. Ah, looks (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=2796) like it.
(http://www.cpc-power.com/extra_lire_fichier.php?extra=cpcold&fiche=2796&slot=4&part=A&type=.png)
wow, quite a creepy garden...
Billy la Banlieue, the fifth axe, Sapiens, Birdie, Captain Blood, Orion Prime, Head over Heels...
I can totally imagine a CPC with only french games, it would still be awesome
So France has the first place for me.
Spain : really colorfull, beautiful and challenging games.
Then UK : many many games, some gems, but too many shitty games (Speccy port urg....)
There is more to the CPC than only Games.
QuoteHead over Heels.
I don't think it is a french game... :laugh:
QuoteThere is more to the CPC than only Games.
(http://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs/b/bd/Fisherrobotconnected.jpg)
(http://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs/thumb/a/ab/DSC00065.JPG/800px-DSC00065.JPG)
(http://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs/b/b5/Robot_Fischertechnik_2.jpg)
(http://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs/3/3d/SchneiderBMWMuseum1.jpg)
(http://www.cpcwiki.eu/imgs/e/e5/Fela_borbone_mierdofon.jpg)
Sure...
;)
Quote from: MacDeath on 18:49, 15 September 13
I don't think it is a french game... :laugh:
Yeah, my bad...
Quote from: MacDeath on 17:24, 15 September 13
wow, quite a creepy garden...
LOL, i just remember the apple: "what a bad shot you are!"
That must have been, what, 27 years ago?
Quote from: MacDeath on 17:24, 15 September 13
(http://www.cpc-power.com/extra_lire_fichier.php?extra=cpcold&fiche=2796&slot=4&part=A&type=.png) (http://www.cpc-power.com/extra_lire_fichier.php?extra=cpcold&fiche=2796&slot=4&part=A&type=.png)
wow, quite a creepy garden...
LOL!
Either this game inspired Barry Humphries to his Dame Edna or the other way around, but there is no way they aren't linked in some way. :D
Quote from: MaV on 12:53, 16 September 13
LOL!
Either this game inspired Barry Humphries to his Dame Edna or the other way around, but there is no way they aren't linked in some way. :D
There we have it - Australia's finest export. Dame Edna. Not exactly bringing out the best in Amstrad though. ;)
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Quote from: ivarf on 10:39, 13 September 13
Do not forget the great games from Egypt! :D
How many were there?
I know Epicsoft released
Roland on the Run
Bridge It
Centre Court
Anything else from Egypt? Do anyone know more about Epicsoft?
Quote from: Border_7 on 05:36, 17 September 13
There we have it - Australia's finest export. Dame Edna. Not exactly bringing out the best in Amstrad though. ;) [size=78%] [/size]
I'd have said Paul Hogan. But he didn't exactly show Australias best side either, at least not in the Paul Hogan show :D
Bryce.
Quote from: Bryce on 08:45, 17 September 13
I'd have said Paul Hogan. But he didn't exactly show Australias best side either, at least not in the Paul Hogan show :D
Bryce.
That's the problem with Australia is when the rest of the world get to see what's been going on from a Queenslanders perspective with the likes of Hogan chucking his snags on the barbie, Steve Irwin wrestling Crocs and going Crikey a lot or some Golfer who spends more time (like Hogan) in the USA. True I guess the Southern End of Australia gave the world Dame Edna who were going in the days of B&W and other personalities which are currently under investigation. :'( And I guess the UK has to put up with shows like Neighbours just to see what people down south are like. :D
Well there was Rolf Harris too... Oh, wait, that's maybe not such a good example either... :(
Bryce.
Neighbours is pretty shit, but Home and Away is quality.
Prisoner Cell Block H !! That show was wicked !!! Loved it especially how it used to recycle actors in different roles all the time ! :D
The Sullivans and the Flying Doctors and Skippy the Bush Kangeroo
There is a remake of it now showing in the UK called Wentworth.
No, I am not watching it.
I always thought it funny that the same actors showed up in most of the shows they made, made it seem like there was a shortage of actors in Australia. :laugh:
Paul Hogan, Rolf Harris *sigh*
and of course we were the dumping ground for Great Britain's unwanted crooks as well for quite some time (after the Americans stopped the British convict ships after the revolution).
I heard that a ton of convicts escaped from Van Diemen's land into Victoria and were never found :D
Quote from: steve on 23:03, 17 September 13
I always thought it funny that the same actors showed up in most of the shows they made, made it seem like there was a shortage of actors in Australia. :laugh:
Well the Rest of the World might think that Australia is a big place when they see us on a map, though our population on a global scale is tiny. Not that we need a few billion people, cause this continent is very dry it wouldn't be sustainable. :(
Quote from: AMSDOS on 02:16, 18 September 13
Well the Rest of the World might think that Australia is a big place when they see us on a map, though our population on a global scale is tiny. Not that we need a few billion people, cause this continent is very dry it wouldn't be sustainable. :(
ah - is that why we're so hell bent on stopping "the boats" ? and the historical reason the Dutch didn't claim this place first? We all could have ended up having dutch as our native tongue.
The problem with the Dutch was they were exploring Western Australia and saw mostly Desert, which is what Australia mostly consists of. Our Deserts are interesting places though full of life when they need to be or find water by whatever means. Humans unfortunately aren't as adaptable and things get tough if a dry place has too much demand.
I think Mr. Abbots boat policy may have flaws and the Indonesian's aren't happy with it, my idea which some political persons have raised, unfortunately is controversial, though perhaps better than just letting the boat people get away with sending people to their deaths.
I laughed loudly when I heard his "Buy all their boats" idea. What will he suggest next: Drill holes in all the wood they export to Indonesia, or sell them compasses with the needles reverse-poled? :D
Bryce.
Quote from: AMSDOS on 13:11, 20 September 13
The problem with the Dutch was they were exploring Western Australia and saw mostly Desert, which is what Australia mostly consists of. Our Deserts are interesting places though full of life when they need to be or find water by whatever means. Humans unfortunately aren't as adaptable and things get tough if a dry place has too much demand.
Well, the native people have no problems with that. I just hope their situation get's better. I heart really bad stories what companies do to them - while the government takes their money, corrupt as politicians are.
to get back on topic, did Ireland ever make games for the CPC?
Yes, but drinking games of course... see here...
Tapper - Amstrad CPC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIMegstXngE#)
and here....
BATTLESHOTS! (Battleships Drinking Game) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8wAGV9s0YQ#ws)
[AMSTRAD CPC] Battle Ships - Longplay & Review (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgwucMioGjg#)
still the "shoters" version seems nasty.
Spain (Batman Group)!!!
Quote from: dcdrac on 20:57, 20 September 13
to get back on topic, did Ireland ever make games for the CPC?
I believe that Emerald Software, as their name suggests, were a group of Irish developers - although most of their games (e.g.
The Deep,
The Running Man,
Vigilante) were pretty poor! School Software also released numerous educational games for the CPC and other computers (most of which were pretty basic).
I don't know if this counts, but David Perry of Probe Software grew up in Northern Ireland. He knew how to code a good game! :D
Lovely thread.
Extra thanks to Markus for crediting me with Greece's export market (though to be fair there were more prominent sceners back then :D ) and to MacDeath (who else) for remembering that 6128 in the car shop (interestingly I just noticed they had even placed a metal face showing how to insert the disk! Talk about serious work!).
Strangely, I just took a peek at the site's demographics, and guess what? In November, the US accounts for 6% of the visits here! Crucially, they have double the bounce rate of other countries, so I guess that by accounting for that it would go down to 4%, but there you have it. Here, have a laugh:
California 13.33%
Louisiana 8.32%
Texas 6.81%
New York 6.71%
Michigan 6.11%
Virginia 5.31%
Washington 3.81%
Pennsylvania 3.71%
New Jersey 3.51%
(not set) 3.41%
Florida 3.41%
Georgia 3.41%
Illinois 2.81%
Maryland 2.51%
Massachusetts 2.40%
Ohio 2.40%
Oregon 1.80%
Nevada 1.50%
Tennessee 1.50%
Indiana 1.40%
Minnesota 1.40%
North Carolina 1.20%
Wisconsin 1.10%
Kentucky 0.90%
Arizona 0.80%
Kansas 0.80%
Colorado 0.70%
Connecticut 0.70%
South Carolina 0.70%
Utah 0.70%
Iowa 0.60%
Missouri 0.60%
Mississippi 0.60%
Oklahoma 0.60%
Alabama 0.50%
District of Columbia 0.50%
Idaho 0.50%
Maine 0.50%
New Mexico 0.50%
West Virginia 0.50%
Montana 0.30%
Arkansas 0.20%
Nebraska 0.20%
New Hampshire 0.20%
Alaska 0.10%
Delaware 0.10%
Hawaii 0.10%
North Dakota 0.10%
Rhode Island 0.10%
I like to think there's some cowgirl chick chewing on a grass blade browsing the wiki out on her patio, in Nebraska...
I reckon majority must be Ex-pats?
Who knows. Or general retro enthusiasts, like it was suggested.
I agree yes , the retro scene has grown along with the net , and rare unusual systems like the Amstrad Console probably has grabbed peoples interest. Fairplay for keeping this Wiki site running for however many years!
From what I see, the first production installation was done on 21:16 (who knows what timezone I had set on the server back then), 06 June 2006. So, 06-06-06! (cue the antichrist jokes).
I'd go with Spain and France joint first for the stuff Dinamic and Loricel produced alone.
The Spanish came out with difficult games? Erm, what about that masochist Raff Cecco?! :P
At least Cecco's games could be beaten if you were extra careful with your timing and learned the screens well.
Oh right, Stormlord...
Ralf Cecco, one of the best !
Quote from: Gryzor on 14:34, 05 December 13
At least Cecco's games could be beaten if you were extra careful with your timing and learned the keypress cheat.
Fixed your post...
Y,X,E,S and Y,G,R,O . Still remember them :D
But I used to get pretty far into his games...
he liked the word ORGY (Backwards), that was used in another of his games, wasn't it Cybernoid?
SEXY was Cybernoid
ORGY was Cybernoid II
ILIKE was Deliverance
ZORBA was Exolon, however if you read the book, you'll know Zorba was somewhat a bit of a deviant in it. ;)
Quote from: Shaun M. Neary on 01:25, 08 December 13
SEXY was Cybernoid
ORGY was Cybernoid II
ILIKE was Deliverance
ZORBA was Exolon, however if you read the book, you'll know Zorba was somewhat a bit of a deviant in it. ;)
And BRINGONTHEGIRLS was the keypress cheat in
Stormlord! :D
Incidentally,
Stormlord really is impossible to complete because one of the fairies in level 2 can't be reached. Fortunately CNGSoft provided a bugfix, so the version on NVG can be completed. ;)
England to me :)
Then France and Spain.
... Zap't'Balls
... Super Cauldron
... Prehistoric II
... Megablasters
... Blackland
... Fres Fighter II Turbo
... all made in Germany ;) 8)
I am absolutely certain that Elmsoft is from Austria, so Zaptballs, Super Cauldron and Prehistorik 2 are not products of Germany.
Unless maybe you are talking about 'the future'..? :P
rb
Yes, right But I draw the borders according to the language borders, that makes IMHO more sense than borders of countries, which are made by arbitrariness. Of couse that brings the problem up in which languages games finally get released, then English always wins - as world language.
we could say Europe got the best out of the CPC?
Definitely not the states ;)
Africa? Antarctica?