What country has brought the finest out of the Amstrad?

[AugustoRuiz]

Spain (Batman Group)!!!

[Nich]

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!

[Gryzor]

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 ) 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:

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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...

[Puresox]

I reckon majority must be Ex-pats?

[Gryzor]

Who knows. Or general retro enthusiasts, like it was suggested.

[Puresox]

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!

[Gryzor]

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).

[Shaun M. Neary]

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?! 

[Gryzor]

At least Cecco's games could be beaten if you were extra careful with your timing and learned the screens well.


Oh right, Stormlord...

[Puresox]

Ralf Cecco, one of the best !

[Shaun M. Neary]

At least Cecco's games could be beaten if you were extra careful with your timing and learned the keypress cheat.

Fixed your post...

[Gryzor]

Y,X,E,S and Y,G,R,O . Still remember them

But I used to get pretty far into his games...

[Puresox]

he liked the word ORGY (Backwards), that was used in another of his games, wasn't it Cybernoid?

[Shaun M. Neary]

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.

[Nich]

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!

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.

[Token]

England to me 
Then France and Spain.

[TFM]

... Zap't'Balls


... Super Cauldron


... Prehistoric II


... Megablasters


... Blackland


... Fres Fighter II Turbo


... all made in Germany 

[rexbeng]

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'..?   

rb

[TFM]

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.

[dcdrac]

we could say Europe got the best out of the CPC?

[TFM]

Definitely not the states 

[Gryzor]

Africa? Antarctica?