What were the first games you had with your Amstrad?

[arnoldemu]

1986 I think. I had Bomb Jack and Ghosts and Goblins on disc with my cpc6128.

[Morn]

1987, CPC 6128, disc games

First game I bought was:
Durell Big 4 (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 ("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, which also had Summer Games I and II, 60 DM

After that I'm not sure in which order I got my other games.

[Singaja]

I was around 4  ,but I recall Harrier Attack, Fruity Frank and Snake written in Basic 

[ervin]

I was around 4  ,but I recall Harrier Attack, Fruity Frank and Snake written in Basic 

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!

[Axelay]

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

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.

[Dizrythmia]

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...

[zeropolis79]

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)

[TFM]

My first CPC Game? IIRC it was Hacker II - kept my busy for quite a while. 

[Puresox]

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

[ZbyniuR]

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

[Nich]

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 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!

[Singaja]

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.

[bjt]

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.

[seanb]

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.

[alex76gr]

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=943

I miss those times so much.

[Dizrythmia]

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!

[seanb]

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.

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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.

[remax]

I finished the first Ninja Turtle in a week-end and i'm far from being a top player...

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this one?



I almost managed to finish it, but I think that at the end I did not. It was a great game 

[Carnivius]

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)

[remax]

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...

[Dizrythmia]

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 

[Carnivius]

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.

[remax]

And, in my opinion, TMNT2 is really good game.

Really match the arcade feeling.