What were the first games you had with your Amstrad?

[Puresox]

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.

[Bryce]

This: Amsoft 12-Pack - CPCWiki came with my 464

Bryce.

[remax]

This : http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=4497

[Puresox]

This : 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 ?

[CraigsBar]

This: Amsoft 12-Pack - CPCWiki 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.

[FloppySoftware]

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!

(Mine is the Spanish edition)

Moon lander, Flight simulator, Connect 4, etc.    good old games!

[||C|-|E||]

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  .

[robcfg]

Oh munmy! And the usual amsoft games. Then, when price of games dropped, lots of Dinamic, Topo and Opera games.

[Puresox]

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!

(Mine is the Spanish edition)

Moon lander, Flight simulator, Connect 4, etc.    good old games!

Clever clogs,only kidding. I presume you were an adult when you got your PCW ?

[FloppySoftware]

I presume you were an adult when you got your PCW ?

Not too much than now. 

[Token]

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.

[Puresox]

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.

[J.T.Kirk]

Thanatos.

[Dizrythmia]

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 &#9733 AMSTRAD CPC &#9733 GAMESLIST &#9733 COMPILATION: 6-PAK VOLUME 2

[ervin]

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!

[remax]

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.

[AMSDOS]

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 

[Carnivius]

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  )
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...)

[VincentGR]

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  .
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 
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 

[Morri]

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. At the time I figured getting 10 games for the price of 1 was too good to pass up. 

[Dubliner]

Mine came with this impressive Dinamic Pack http://www.cpc-power.com/index.php?page=detail&num=4137

No wonder i had no hurry to buy new games for a while

[Bryce]

Actually, as well as the Amsoft Game pack, I also got this: Starting Basic - CPCWiki with my 464, which meant that the games didn't get opened for about 2 months anyway

Bryce.

[AMSDOS]

From memory this was the first program 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.

[Optimus]

Roland in Times
Harrier Attack
Astro Attack
Fruity Frank
Galaxia
Ghost and Goblins

[zeropolis79]

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)