What were the first games you had with your Amstrad?

[KaosOverride]

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. 

[Gryzor]

This one for me, along with my green-screen 464: Into Oblivion - CPCWiki . Had no idea what I was doing, but heck! Pew-pew!!!

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?!

[Gryzor]

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.

[Axelay]

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.

[Dizrythmia]

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

[Puresox]

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. 

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.

[PHabermehl]

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 :-(

[00WReX]

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 

Cheers,
Shane

[AMSDOS]

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.    Budget games were more appealing on that sort of income.

[CPC_Fan]

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... 

[Border_7]

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) 

Oh the anticipation of the tape almost loaded!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Shaun M. Neary]

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.

[Fessor]

If i remember correct my first games in mid '85 are Roland on the Ropes, Pyjamarama and Sorcery

[Kris]

My real 1st game on CPC was a compilation "10 great great games" on 464......

[Dr Tiger Ninestein]

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.

[Shaun M. Neary]

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. 

[Munchausen]

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...

[CraigsBar]

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.

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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[tezet]

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.

[Shaun M. Neary]

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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Hah when I was 10/11, I had no concept of what a clone was at all. I just figured same game, different name. 

[ndial]

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 


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 

[Numerius]

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. 

[nrgroom]

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.

[mr_lou]

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).

[Shaun M. Neary]

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!