Got my 464 Xmas Day 84, The Games I had with it were :-
Fire Ant
Harrier Attack
Spannerman
Sultan's Maze
Banana's
I think that was it.
Ahh no it wasn't I had Roland in the Caves! And I loved em all.
This: Amsoft 12-Pack - CPCWiki (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Amsoft_12-Pack) came with my 464 :)
Bryce.
This : http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=4497 (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=4497)
Quote from: remax on 22:19, 06 July 15
This : http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=4497 (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=4497)
What year did you get your Amstrad, quite a cool set to get as first games ?
Quote from: Bryce on 22:18, 06 July 15
This: Amsoft 12-Pack - CPCWiki (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Amsoft_12-Pack) came with my 464 :)
Bryce.
Mine too. But I still raced out and spent some of my Christmas money on....
Chuckie egg,
Manic miner,
Elite &
Thrust.
Well, having in mind that my Amstrad is a PCW 8256 one... can I choose Basic as a game? ;)
In fact, the first games I had in my PCW were some Basic games for CPC, Spectrum, MSX, etc. ???
Yes, I typed them from a book from Tim Hartnell, and adapted them to my PCW!
(http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/images/large/PRODPIC-25218.jpg)
(Mine is the Spanish edition)
Moon lander, Flight simulator, Connect 4, etc. 8) good old games!
I recall that the first game I bought and played in my Amstrad was L.E.D Storm :) . The same day, some friends that had a 464 came to my house just to see how fast the 6128 was loading it. I really liked this one a lot, but I never reached stage 5.
With the computer also came a very nice disc with some Dinamic titles: Dustin, Nonamed, Camelot Warriors, Phantomas 2, Don Quijote and Abu Simbel. It was very cool! I played Camelot Warriors, Dustin and Abu Simbel like crazy, although I was never very good. A cousin of mine, however, managed to finish Abu Simbel without cheats :o .
Oh munmy! And the usual amsoft games. Then, when price of games dropped, lots of Dinamic, Topo and Opera games.
Quote from: FloppySoftware on 22:49, 06 July 15
Well, having in mind that my Amstrad is a PCW 8256 one... can I choose Basic as a game? ;)
In fact, the first games I had in my PCW were some Basic games for CPC, Spectrum, MSX, etc. ???
Yes, I typed them from a book from Tim Hartnell, and adapted them to my PCW!
(http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/images/large/PRODPIC-25218.jpg)
(Mine is the Spanish edition)
Moon lander, Flight simulator, Connect 4, etc. 8) good old games!
Clever clogs,only kidding. I presume you were an adult when you got your PCW ?
Quote from: Puresox on 23:39, 06 July 15
I presume you were an adult when you got your PCW ?
Not too much than now. ;D ;)
I had 4 games with the CPC 464.
I remember to load 3D grand prix first on the GT-64.
Then Cauldron, Manic Miner, Pyjamarama.
Quote from: Token on 23:58, 06 July 15
I had 4 games with the CPC 464.
I remember to load 3D grand prix first on the GT-64.
Then Cauldron, Manic Miner, Pyjamarama.
Pretty good titles there, Cauldron would have absorbed me , and Manic Miner of course can't go wrong with that. 3D Grand Prix not so fussed on but will check it out again.
Thanatos.
First thing I got for my Amstrad was the 6-Pak volume 2. It was $40 at the local computer store at the time. It contained:
Into the Eagles Nest
Shockway Rider
International Karate 1 & 2
Batty
Ace
Light Force
Actually, it was this one. The packaging was different as it was distributed by Sega Ozisoft, & they were known for making changes like that:
CPCRULEZ ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ COMPILATION: 6-PAK VOLUME 2 (http://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/compilation-6-pak_volume_2.htm)
Got my 464 early 1985.
Devoured the instruction manual, and got into programming quite quickly.
But of course GAMES was where it was at.
I really wanted an Asteroids style of game, and I saw (don't laugh) Atom Smasher.
It *looked* really good, from the screenshots in the cassette case.
Because of Atom Smasher, I learned my lesson VERY early on about the importance of researching games first (which of course was rather hard without the internet back then)!
Of course the game was completely, totally, unforgivably horrible garbage.
It's one of my most hated games to this day.
Things picked up nicely after that abomination though, particularly when I got my hands on They Sold a Million.
Jet Set Willy and Sabre Wulf got more playtime than I care to remember.
Really great memories of those games.
Ghouls was another great game, though I don't recommend playing it now.
Really great sound ambience, functional but cute graphics, but wow... that difficulty level. Harder than the hardest nails that ever nailed anything hard!
Quote from: Puresox on 22:31, 06 July 15
What year did you get your Amstrad, quite a cool set to get as first games ?
December 1987 (XMas) and yeah, that was a really great pack to start. I have fond memories of each of these games.
Haunted Hedges
Harrier Attack
Happy Numbers
Astro Attack
Roland in Time
Flight Path 737
Formula 1 Simulator
Unsure if that's the exact order, but for years we were playing with those games. I hated Astro Attack because that was subject to all the Broken Joysticks we had and so most of the time Games weren't being played because of this horrible game >:(
Got the Amsoft 12 pack like most people.
Also they included a bunch of other games mostly from Tynesoft and Artic and 3D Boxing from Amsoft.
The Tynesoft/Artic games being:
Paws (My sister and I loved this one)
Voodoo Rage
Custard Pie Factory
Ground Zero (can remember trying real hard to finish this one a lot but always failed)
Supergran (uh, yeeeah)
Rig Attack (this never worked)
World Cup
Ship of Doom (Use Sonic Screwdriver on Android was probably the first time I encountered anything sexual so at the time I didn't really understand the effect it had on her :o )
Espionage Island (played this again a few years after Ship of Doom and it taught me at an early age that if you rape a woman her husband will run out of the hut and throw a spear in your head, so I never have. Good life lesson that...)
May or June 88"
When my cpc arrived a friend brought me ghost'n'goblins disk.
He left with the disk after a while and I was still playing from ram :-X .
Music was awesome! but I was a bit sad as it was my first time on a home after visiting the arcades.
At least I was lucky, GG was smooth ;D
After 2 days a guy from the store where I bought my cpc brought me these:
Arkanoid
Asphalt
Island of Dr.Destructo
Ikari Warriors
Blagger
1942
Maybe some more or less than them?
Copies of course on 2 Amsoft disks.
Still have them and I have to check if I'm right with the games included.
PS: Ikari was fascinating and after a long time I accidently was holding fire for grens over a tank and guess what???
Yes, the tank was mine!!!!
Suddenly the game was for me once again new :P
The 2 that I remember coming with my machine were the welcome to Amstrad disk which had the fruit machine game, (My brother and I spent ages playing that awful game) and flying shark which I actually got really good at and managed to complete.
The first games I remember buying with my own money was this compilation (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=3836). At the time I figured getting 10 games for the price of 1 was too good to pass up. 8)
Mine came with this impressive Dinamic Pack http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=4137 (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=4137)
No wonder i had no hurry to buy new games for a while :)
Actually, as well as the Amsoft Game pack, I also got this: Starting Basic - CPCWiki (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Starting_Basic) with my 464, which meant that the games didn't get opened for about 2 months anyway :)
Bryce.
From memory this was the first program (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=6887) I seriously typed in, which wasn't bad considering it was written in BASIC, but I've never been any good at those Tiled Slot games.
Roland in Times
Harrier Attack
Astro Attack
Fruity Frank
Galaxia
Ghost and Goblins
December 25th, 1984...
I had the Amsoft 12-tape pack..
But the first games I had that weren't Amsoft, to the best of my recollection were Professional Snooker Simulator (Codemasters), Caves of Doom and Mr. Freeze. The latter two were copied, but all three curtesy of my now disowned father. IIRC, he would buy me one more CPC game and that was Thundercats.
(it's funny to note that ten years ago, he brought me Star Wars Battlefront 2 for the PS2 but upon opening the case, it was Battlefront 1)
1986 I think. I had Bomb Jack and Ghosts and Goblins on disc with my cpc6128.
1987, CPC 6128, disc games
First game I bought was:
Durell Big 4 (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=3835) (Saboteur, Turbo Esprit, Combat Lynx, Critical Mass), 40 DM
Critical Mass sucked, but the other three are pretty good, although a bit challenging for a child, esp. Combat Lynx
This was quickly followed by
Solid Gold (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=3845) ("Massivgold" in German; Gauntlet, Winter Games, Infiltrator, Leaderboard, Ace of Aces ), 50 DM
Gauntlet, WG, and LB were great, Inf. and AoA not so much
I liked Winter Games, so next I got
Gold, Silver, Bronze (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=4043), which also had Summer Games I and II, 60 DM
After that I'm not sure in which order I got my other games.
I was around 4 :o ,but I recall Harrier Attack, Fruity Frank and Snake written in Basic :P
Quote from: Singaja on 13:41, 07 July 15
I was around 4 :o ,but I recall Harrier Attack, Fruity Frank and Snake written in Basic :P
Fruity Frank!
Yes!
I forgot to mention it in my comments.
Absolutely loved that game. My cousins and I used to have Fruity Frank hi-score contests.
That game is a masterpiece to this very day!
Quote from: Dizrythmia on 04:29, 07 July 15
First thing I got for my Amstrad was the 6-Pak volume 2. It was $40 at the local computer store at the time. It contained:
Into the Eagles Nest
Shockway Rider
International Karate 1 & 2
Batty
Ace
Light Force
Actually, it was this one. The packaging was different as it was distributed by Sega Ozisoft, & they were known for making changes like that:
CPCRULEZ ★ AMSTRAD CPC ★ GAMESLIST ★ COMPILATION: 6-PAK VOLUME 2 (http://cpcrulez.fr/GamesTest/compilation-6-pak_volume_2.htm)
Interesting, mine was ECP, as was I thought all the Elite stuff I saw in Australia, with this classy packaging: :)
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On topic, the 464 we got did not come with anything but the welcome tape, but purchased with it were:
3d Time Trek
Moon Buggy
Highway Encounter
Coming off a Hanimex console, even 3d Time Trek seemed amazing initially, but it got old fast and was rendered obsolete quickly by Codename MAT not too long after. Highway Encounter was awesome imo, still my favourite isometric game for CPC.
Quote from: Axelay on 14:12, 07 July 15
Interesting, mine was ECP, as was I thought all the Elite stuff I saw in Australia, with this classy packaging: :)
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On topic, the 464 we got did not come with anything but the welcome tape, but purchased with it were:
3d Time Trek
Moon Buggy
Highway Encounter
Coming off a Hanimex console, even 3d Time Trek seemed amazing initially, but it got old fast and was rendered obsolete quickly by Codename MAT not too long after. Highway Encounter was awesome imo, still my favourite isometric game for CPC.
That's it!! Maybe it was ECP & my memory was shot, but that's the packaging exactly!! Would still love to track down my original 6128 with the stuff I was programming as a kid...
Other games I had in my first years of the CPC were;
Oceans Greatest Hits - compilation with Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Batman, V, Street Hawk, Knight Rider, Nomad and Daley Thompson's Supertest..
Subsunk (Firebird), Willow Pattern (Firebird), Spikey Harold (Firebird). There were a few other Firebird titles, the titles of which I can't remember at the moment but I would remember if I saw them.
IIRC, I didn't start a proper collection until 1987/1988. Those first games I recall being Ghostbuster (on Riccoete label), Ninja (Entertainment USA), Thundercats (Elite)
My first CPC Game? IIRC it was Hacker II - kept my busy for quite a while. :)
Quote from: TFM on 18:32, 07 July 15
My first CPC Game? IIRC it was Hacker II - kept my busy for quite a while. :)
I'd like to see a good long play of that game
I bought my 6128 in september 1992 from some profesor, with disks full of some incomprehensible for me CPM stuff. But there was a few games too. :)
Impossaball
The Way of The Tiger
Prohibition
Cyrus II Chess
My parents bought my CPC6128 in the summer of 1987. The first games I can remember playing on it are Spy vs. Spy II: The Island Caper and Ghostbusters.
I hated Spy vs. Spy II and even hid the disc from my three brothers as they kept playing it! >:( On the other hand, I didn't really understand how to play it properly. This may have been due to me not taking the time to read the instruction manual...
I liked Ghostbusters and played it a lot - but that was probably due to having no other games to play. Well, actually that's not quite true - because my parents also bought a disc from ARC Educational Software (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=2785) with dozens of small BASIC programs that kept me entertained. At this time I still had a Spectrum+ and I think my parents' intention was that the CPC would be a more 'educational' machine and the Spectrum would be for playing games. Thankfully things eventually didn't turn out that way! :)
Quote from: ZbyniuR on 20:02, 07 July 15
Cyrus II Chess
Amstrad kept beating me as a kid >:( I suck at chess, but the "AI"/the algorithm was surprisingly good for an 8 bit. It has a nice isometric view too.
Cauldron, Wordhang, Osprey! and Technician Ted (nearly made me cry it was so hard) :-)
I was playing it on a Cheetah 128+ which didn't help.
My dad had a selection of computers and old games consoles, odyssey and Fairchild f's (can't remember what they were rebranded as in England) speccys etc so had a load of games for the amstrad.
When I bought a 6128 plus though the first game I bought was teenage mutant hero turtle.
There was a bin full of them next to the machine and thought why not.
Love that game and don't understand why it gets so much hate.
It was Barbarian and Galaxia.
http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=40 (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=40)
http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=943 (http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=943)
I miss those times so much.
Quote from: seanb on 22:08, 07 July 15
Love that game and don't understand why it gets so much hate.
I used to dislike it as it came out the same time as the arcade game & that was what I was expecting. With that said, I eventually gave the game a chance & played it, judging it on its own merits. I have to say that it's not easy, though the Amstrad version does kerb some of the difficulty. I find it to be the most enjoyable conversion!
Compared to most 8 bit games i didn't think turtles was that hard.
I managed to complete it regularly just like robocop.
Didn't complete many 8 bit computer games. Think I could finish it now but not robocop.
I must admit that I was terrible playing non adventure type games. I think I never managed to finish one besides Silkworm, X-Out and the first part of Game Over :( . To compensate, I was very good with text adventures but, in general, Amstrad games were really difficult for me.
I finished the first Ninja Turtle in a week-end and i'm far from being a top player...
this one?
[AMSTRAD CPC] Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles Longplay part 1/2 - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjBhcQAm0qo)
I almost managed to finish it, but I think that at the end I did not. It was a great game :D
Was a good game and the CPC version was mostly well done. Also Shredder looked more badass on the CPC game than most others (and moreso than the cartoon of the era)
Yes this one.
On the two firsts attempts i lost near the end, then the third time (sunday evening, i bought the game saturday morning), i won...
I always wanted to play TMNT2 on CPC after trying the demo on the Amstrad Action covertape. I bought an original copy but it didn't work :(
I'll try again when I get a HxC :D
Quote from: Dizrythmia on 03:48, 09 July 15
I always wanted to play TMNT2 on CPC after trying the demo on the Amstrad Action covertape. I bought an original copy but it didn't work :(
Same thing happened to me and a friend of mine. I couldn't return mine cos I bought it while on holiday. Was hugely disappointing. I still have the damn thing.
And, in my opinion, TMNT2 is really good game.
Really match the arcade feeling.
My Colour CPC6128 with a datassete came in December 1987 (Christmas gift!!) with a Dinamic Disk Pack (Nonamed, Game Over, Dustin, Army Moves), Goody Disk and the tapes Aliens, Howard the Duck, Big Trouble In Little China and Back To The Future (Was some kind of Activision film games pack but the 4 cassetes where independent cases). Also the Amsoft disk pack (animal vegetal mineral, dbase, amsword, etc) that came with the CPC. ;D
This one for me, along with my green-screen 464: Into Oblivion - CPCWiki (http://cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Into_Oblivion) . Had no idea what I was doing, but heck! Pew-pew!!!
Quote from: Dizrythmia on 04:29, 07 July 15
First thing I got for my Amstrad was the 6-Pak volume 2. It was $40 at the local computer store at the time. It contained:
Into the Eagles Nest
Shockway Rider
International Karate 1 & 2
Batty
Ace
Light Force
40 quid for a compilation??!
But, your post actually made me remember what it felt like when you go a compilation of first-rate games... what a deluge of fun - what to play first?!
Quote from: Singaja on 21:10, 07 July 15
Amstrad kept beating me as a kid >:( I suck at chess, but the "AI"/the algorithm was surprisingly good for an 8 bit. It has a nice isometric view too.
Ahhh yes, good ol' Cyrus II... I loved the graphics, I can definitely say it helped me learned some chess.
Quote from: Gryzor on 11:02, 09 July 15
40 quid for a compilation??!
No, 40 Australian pesos. Our dollar at the time was hovering between about 1/2 and 1/3 of a pound.
Not AS pitiful as today, but still not great.
Yes, $40AU. This was when you could still buy Amstrad games in Australia without having to resort to using "The Amstrad User" magazine's mail order pages, back when Amstrad specialist stores like "Mr Computer" (in South Australia) existed. They had a huge range of Amstrad games. I also used to buy games through a second hand dealer called "Computer Recyclers". They still exist & I drive past it all the time, but they stopped selling 8-bit games years ago. I went in about 10 years ago just out of curiosity but was promptly told that they only do PC stuff now
Quote from: KaosOverride on 10:20, 09 July 15
My Colour CPC6128 with a datassete came in December 1987 (Christmas gift!!) with a Dinamic Disk Pack (Nonamed, Game Over, Dustin, Army Moves), Goody Disk and the tapes Aliens, Howard the Duck, Big Trouble In Little China and Back To The Future (Was some kind of Activision film games pack but the 4 cassetes where independent cases). Also the Amsoft disk pack (animal vegetal mineral, dbase, amsword, etc) that came with the CPC. ;D
The other games are fine , but the Activison bunch,apart from Aliens , the biggest load of crap , to be bunched together. No intent to offend btw.
Well,
my Schneider CPC464 came with a demo tape, I still remember "Word hang" and "Oh, mummy", which kept me busy for some days as did "10 print 'hello world!' <cr><lf> 20 goto 10" :-)
Next, I got "Harrier Attack" and "Manic Miner", the latter one still one of my all-time favorites, as well as "Jet Set Willy 2".
Fun story is, I used to play "Boulder Dash" at a friend's CPC and always tried to purchase it, but I was too late - all the German Mail Order shops were already out of stock, and it was the time before ebay and internet :-(
I got my 464 in mid to late 1985 and these are the 1st lot of games I remember playing...
Combat Lynx
Gyroscope
The Way Of The Exploding Fist
Yie Ar Kung-Fu
Moon Buggy
Sorcery
I saved up for ages (probably a year) and got a DDI-1.
My 1st disc game was...
Glenn Hoddle Soccer
3 reasons for me purchasing this game.
1)Have always followed Tottenham.
2)As a kid Glenn Hoddle was my favourite player.
3)The game was compatible with the SSA-1 that I had (still have).
Nothing like "It's a goal' through the SSA-1 :laugh:
Cheers,
Shane
Quote from: Gryzor on 11:02, 09 July 15
40 quid for a compilation??!
That would be a bargain for a compilation, when I started buying games like Powerdrift & Rainbow Islands from here in Australia, $30 was the going rate just for the tape, if you wanted Disc add $10 to that, and I think I was on $5 a fortnight pocket money at the time saving for a Star Cursor Joystick that was around $50. :D Budget games were more appealing on that sort of income.
The first games that I got when my parents got us our first 464, were the compilation 12 pack, as mentioned by Bryce in the thread earlier and the welcome tape. I remember that when my sister used to annoy me, I would annoy her back by keeping on turning the volume up and whilst the tape was loading. I especially used to turn it up when the screeching sound of the tape was at it's worse... :laugh:
Very late to this party, but first 3:
Into Oblivion, Vampire, The Apprentice
and, I only recently completed those - like last year!! (Into Oblivion - man, what a mammoth) ;D
Oh the anticipation of the tape almost loaded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Got my Amstrad towards the end of 1986 with the 12 Amsoft game bundle. The first game that I loaded off it was Oh Mummy.
I'd noticed my local record shop had a few budget titles for sale, I believe this was my first title that I bought for it.
(http://img.gamefaqs.net/box/1/4/5/88145_front.jpg)
If i remember correct my first games in mid '85 are Roland on the Ropes, Pyjamarama and Sorcery
My real 1st game on CPC was a compilation "10 great great games" on 464......
My first amstrad was a 464 plus, a Christmas present the year it came out (91?).
The games that I got with it were Dan Dare, into oblivion, feud, and El cid. I loved Dan Dare and feud, not so much the other two.
Quote from: Kris on 13:25, 03 December 15
My real 1st game on CPC was a compilation "10 great great games" on 464......
Now THAT'S how to get a good first impression of the CPC.
Trailblazer, Westbank, Bounder, Avenger and Jack The Nipper. :)
I was quite small when we got the CPC (I think my parents got it around the time I was born). The games we had were:
Batman (the Jon Ritman one)
Game over
Arkanoid
Tank
Legend of Kage
Phantom Club
Freddy Hardest
Head over Heels
Slapfight
Madballs
I think the above came with the CPC in the dixons collection. The next ones we "always" had, so I'm going to list them as the first games too:
Fun School 4
Golden Axe
Driller
Total eclipse
Castle master
Castle master 2
Monopoly, cluedo etc
Galaxy force
I think that's all. There was another learning game too, but I can't remember what it was and can't see it anywhere. I've still got it somewhere though...
Quote from: Shaun M. Neary on 10:05, 03 December 15
Got my Amstrad towards the end of 1986 with the 12 Amsoft game bundle. The first game that I loaded off it was Oh Mummy.
I'd noticed my local record shop had a few budget titles for sale, I believe this was my first title that I bought for it.
(http://img.gamefaqs.net/box/1/4/5/88145_front.jpg)
This amazes me how little companies did to protect their intellectual property in the 80. So he has a pointy snout, but it's still Q*Bert!
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My impression of CPC games came from CPCAI-Databoxes, the first one was something like "Schnellbootkommandant" (Jawohl!).
As my dad got a used CPC there were plenty of Databox-discs I crawled through... But another disc raised my curiosity as it contained some files starting with "Batman": While loading the screen started to show a very promising Batman-titlescreen with some really nasty byte-corruptions in it - then the cpc crashed and returned to the ready-prompt. After long tries I finally managed to load the binary and some kind of main-menu appeared. Annoyingly the font was damaged so it was impossible to read... I tried all keys and combinations of strange alien-letters (there are some options in this game) and finally the opening-theme started - I thought the sound must be corrupted too but in fact it was ok... In some rooms I saw really strange "byte-bushes" but as Batman died touching them it I thought it had to be this way (later found out it should have been evil boxes).
So Ritmans Batman was my first real game on Amstrad - somehow damaged but still playable. Even after never being able to finish it I think it is one of the best cpc-games.
Quote from: CraigsBar on 19:50, 03 December 15
This amazes me how little companies did to protect their intellectual property in the 80. So he has a pointy snout, but it's still Q*Bert!
Sent from my m8 using Tapatalk
Hah when I was 10/11, I had no concept of what a clone was at all. I just figured same game, different name. ;)
Well, I've got my CPC 464 early in 1987 along with a CTM 644.
At that time all of my friends owned a CPC with the little greenish (GT-65 etc) monitor.
All of them kept coming to my place to play their games in ... color :D
Anyways, the first 5 or 6 games that came day one with the CPC (most of them released by Amsoft of course):
- Roland on the Ropes (that little big nose fella)
- Harrier Attack (city bombing was the best part)
- Oh!Mummy (level 6 and up, impossible to take...a step)
- Sultan's Maze (oh yes, the one that takes 17 minutes in tape loading...)
- Friday the 13th (that sampled scream (aaaaargh) still creeps me out...)
- Feud (no map, no luck. kept wondering around too much here)
great moments back then :)
After what felt like years of pestering them, my parents finally got me a used CPC464. It came with 10 tapes:
Kane
Cauldron
The way of the exploding fist
A view to a kill
Caves of Doom
The last V8
Chiller
Mission Elevator
Way of the tiger
They sold a million (Jet Set Willy, Sabre Wolf, DT's Decathlon, Rocco)
Strange, I can't remember what I had for breakfast (or when's my wedding day), but I could name 7 out of those 10 first games without even thinking. Took me 10 minutes to figure out the rest. :picard:
Such great memories!
First Amstrad was a secondhand CPC464 that my dad had bought for the family for Christmas. He's set it up on a table in the corner, spectacularly revealed it, and we were a bit bemused at first. Never used a computer before. Just turned it on, had no idea what to do with it.
After a few minutes of prodding the keys, and messing about, we referred to the manual, and how to load a game. That first game was harrier attack. What. A. Game. We thought something was wrong with the computer when the strange sounds starting coming out of the tape after pressing play. But "Loading Harrier.bas" (or whatever the filename was) came up. Then the loading screen, and finally the game. Spent hours playing it. Getting further and further, accidentally pressing escape twice and having to re-load.
Dad had (unbeknownst to us at the time) got a shed load of games with it. He only gave us about half a dozen to start with. I remember harrier attack, fruit machine, Roland on the Ropes, Equinox (which wouldn't load) and Head over Heels.
After a few days, started reading the manual, typing in the programs, learning how to program. That manual was so good at gradually teaching you basic, and what the computer could actually do.
Every friday, dad would produce another game - most of these were just tapes in an empty case, so sometimes had to work out the controls through trial and error. Dad had no idea if the game was good or bad, so sometimes it would be a game like Renegade - played solidly over the weekend, sometimes it would be a Timeman part one - play it once and forget about it.
After a couple of months, me and my brother discovered the stash of games - a huge box at the bottom of a wardrobe. So exciting ! Didn't tell dad, but I think he had worked out that we'd found it. We had tried to rearrange the games in there, so the better looking ones were on top, ready for the next reveal.
We had a school holiday - whole week off school - and dad decided to 'reveal' the games. Never has a week gone so quickly. Best of the bunch was "Custard Pie Factory". Looking back at it now, I can't really understand why, but at the time we spent hours on end trying to fix that damn factory. Never managed it.
Eventually upgraded to a 6128, AA subscription and printer. Great times. But nothing can come close to that first play of harrier attack.
Many great memories yes.
From previous posts on this forum I'd gotten the impression that most people don't remember much from the good old days. But I see now that many people do remember.
I personally remember a lot, and feel that those stories ought to be preserved, and enjoyed by others. So I'm writing all of my own stories down these days.... months.... years..... :)
Takes a long time.
I think I've written at least 40 stories so far. (More info in the link in my signature).
I remember trying to play Bridge-It!
Half of me was determined to get the guys to the other side, the other half of me wondering why the hell did I load that pile of garbage! :laugh: :laugh:
My CPC 464 came in 1986 with Harrier Attack. I remember playing it for hours that night.
Following weeks, I bought myself tapes of Commando, Green Beret, Kane and Cauldron II (All of them great games!)
I'm still in love with all versions of Commando :) Arcade and C64 versions are also great!
I can't remember exactly as I was really young, but I do know the 464 came with the free 12-pack as I was allowed to play Timeman One and Oh Mummy. I am not sure what other games if any. I do remember though one of my mum's ex's friends coming around with some naughty C-90's packed with games though and I watched as he went through them all.
Those were my first games too: Amsoft 12-Pack - CPCWiki (http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Amsoft_12-Pack)
Bryce.
I didn't have "guenine" games with my cpc at first :o but my first disk had defend or die, wonder boy, and yie ar kungfu !
mine :
6128 on the 6 january 1986 :) got with it :
- AMX mouse
- Mission Delta (ere informatique)
- 3D Fight
- Rally II
All I got with my CPC464 with colour monitor was the welcome tape! :(
After seen the Manic Miner demo from a CP/M PLUS floppy, my parents bought the "Software Project 4 Pack" that incudes it, and also Jet Set Willy, Karls Treasure and Binky.