101 Amstrad Games to Play Before You Grow Up

The Amstrad CPC was an 8-bit computer that competed with the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. It was considered the third computer. Despite a multitude of Speccy ports, the Amstrad CPC still managed to produce some of the best games ever made. This is the first of several videos celebrating hundreds of commercial games.
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[@d1btd3265]

Remember being amazed at the speech synthesis in robin hood. Excitedly showed it to my parents. "I can't tell what it says". Excitement crushed!

[@ClassicReplay]

It said “Welcome Robin, good luck!” But you probably needed speakers back then, that amplified the sound, as opposed to the internal speaker. People talk about upgrades to their home computers, the first thing I always did was upgrade the sound.

[@stevensmith6410]

Playing games on my old xboxone nearly 10 years old will be next year

[@stuball08]

I remembered playing Anarchy when I was about 8 and have forgot the name of it. I have looked through loads of Amstrad videos to find it again and finally, today was the day!!!! Thank you so much !! 🙏 😁👍🏻

[@stevensmith6410]

For years I miss my old amstrad 464 lots of fun good cool memories

[@ClassicReplay]

It's never too late to get one. Christmas 2022 could be the big year ;-)

[@ccfc147]

Some of my favourite games were footballler of the year, footballer of the year 2, wonderboy, operation wolf, emlyn hughes soccer, gryzor, daley thompsons decathlon and track & field 2. Love looking back and hearing the music on these games.

[@ClassicReplay]

All good fun there, did you ever play Football Manager 2 or Tracksuit Manager? They were awesome 👏

[@ccfc147]

@@ClassicReplay football manager 2 with the larger cassette box

[@nebularain3338]

Criminally underrated machine. Definitely had the nicest looking graphics capabilities out of the big three 8-Bit microcomputers, although a blitter wouldn't have gone amiss.

[@ClassicReplay]

I think releasing the CPC 464 with 128k might have helped as well, then all scrolls could have used double buffering

[@d1btd3265]

Nice to see some gameplay of things I'd only ever seen screenshots of in Amstrad Action.

[@ClassicReplay]

Much love for Amstrad Action! Surely they could bring it back in 2022, the scene is as vibrant as ever! Check out my other Amstrad vids. In fact here’s one I did recently Amstrad CPC | Top 25 Best Arcade Games Ever! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaOmcnque5eXarc

[@stevensmith6410]

Years ago used to play different games on my amstrad 464 my granddad bought amstrad computer years ago in 80s bought me lots of cool games he bought me lots of add ons disc drive music speakers lots of tape games disc games colour monitor wish after I had sega master system gave amstrad computer back to grandad lots of fun back in the day with amstrad 464

[@ClassicReplay]

He sounds like an amazing Grandad! How did he take it when you gave him the CPC back in favour of a console? I did this and my dad thought I was ungrateful somehow. Tech moves on, but he didn't understand that aspect.

[@electricfire7]

My dad bought the amstrad cpc 464 with a green screen monitor ,i think back in 1984 at tandys,We was poor so couldn't afford a colour monitor back then,I never ever got to play on a amstrad colour monitor.So many memories then few year later i got an Atari ST 520stfm for my birthday..

[@ClassicReplay]

Sounds like a dream ending 👍🏻

[@d1btd3265]

I'd forgotten Zub completely. Played many hours on that!

[@ClassicReplay]

Brilliant memories 👍

[@richretrotech9426]

Some great stuff there. I’ve just started exploring the games for the cpc.

[@ClassicReplay]

100% Check out my other Amstrad vids as well. I’m going to do a beginners guide to the CPC shortly as a few people have asked me. There’s a few other guys I’d like to recommend for the Amstrad CPC, Zyphoe and Novabug

[@robsmall6466]

Hi Rich Retro Tech. Please take a look at CPC Power, the CPC Wiki and CPC Reviews. If your new to Amstrad it will prove a great help

[@ClassicReplay]

@@robsmall6466 CPC Rulez is another good one, as is CPC Game Reviews 👍🏻

[@richretrotech9426]

@@robsmall6466 thanks a lot for the pointers. I sure will. ❤️

[@robsmall6466]

@@ClassicReplay Sorry. CPC Game Reviews is what I meant rather than CPC Reviews

[@Kerveros1904]

they are so many and adding the high difficukty that these games had in this era, i am afraid that even if i devote all my time in this list there is a possibility to die before playing them all.

[@ClassicReplay]

😂 I’d say probably, but maybe one or two will catch your eye and spark enough interest to explore games you’ve never played a tad deeper. Good luck 😉

[@Kerveros1904]

@@ClassicReplay yes, makes sense i have already created a list of ~20 games to load on the M4Board, that i was not aware of their existence.

[@ClassicReplay]

@@Kerveros1904 M4 board, now that’s proper technical. I love how I can launch 🚀 CPC games from my iPad or phone 😁

[@Kerveros1904]

@@ClassicReplay Duke is the Duke !!!

[@InsideSmoke]

If you are emulating any of these games the majority of Amstrad ROMs start up with trainers that give infinite lives and stuff

[@WeSombreGhosts]

My mate had an Amstrad and we had the C64 so best of both worlds.

[@magicknight8412]

Plenty to be getting on with here.

[@ClassicReplay]

Oh god yes! I wish I were new to all these 8bits and their games 😂

[@magicknight8412]

@@ClassicReplay i mean whilst i know all of these I certainly have not played them all !

[@AndrewHelgeCox]

02:45 Yie Ar Kung Fu winning strategy: stampnon the other guy's foot. Could clock it until you got bored like that IIRC.

[@danm3570]

a hell of a machine, wish i could get an emulator or something and play the cpc version or arkanoid, blasteroids yie air kung fu or boulder dash

[@ClassicReplay]

You can play online, google is your friend

[@johnworf]

you can get a raspberry pie and play them all

[@kur1su74]

I think the obscure French adventure games from Infogrames, Ubi Soft, Loriciels etc... are the true treasures of the Amstrad, rather than the Ocean and Imagine shovelware.

[@ClassicReplay]

Can you give an example please? Most of the games I played from France didn’t feature an English language option so couldn’t play them properly.

[@kur1su74]

@@ClassicReplay Very true; most of them never got proper translations, at least not on the Amstrad itself except for B.A.T. and The Vera Cruz Affair (and maybe some others... like The Inheritance) Some others got translations on other systems tho, like Passengers on the Wind on C64 and Amiga. There's a sequel to B.A.T. there too. These mid-80s French weird hybrid games always fascinated me ever since I played L'Affaire from Infogrames on my MSX2 back then. Would love to see a video of someone delving into stuff like A320, Blueberry, Fer & Flamme, Maitre Absolu, Mokowe etc... Also thanks for your content!

[@ClassicReplay]

I played BAT and Zombie, luckily they saw an English release, fantastic graphics. But never understood what you had to do 😔

[@kur1su74]

@@ClassicReplay That's seems to be a bit of a problem with a lot of these. As a kid I wrote a walkthrough for L'Affaire from Infogrames describing how to get like 85% into the game for an MSX magazine, it took another 30 years for someone to finally find the complete solution , which I celebrated with a complete recorded playthrough on KZbin very recently :D These games are indeed super obtuse, which is partly why I'm fascinated with them I guess! They just don't follow the conventions set by American, British or even Japanese titles.

[@ClassicReplay]

@@kur1su74 The French game artists were definitely superior to all the others. One day I will hopefully play some of these wonderful games if ever translated.

[@fruitking6916]

How good was FEUD though, it had the lot, graphics, sound and gameplay all brilliant and I’m pretty sure it was a budget game aswel at £1.99 😮

[@ClassicReplay]

Very good game for the time. Definitely one that deserves a remake on modern consoles.

[@ZeLilFish]

Nice video, but am I missing something? Sometimes I cannot tell which game it is (e. g. 5:37), and there is no list. :(

[@ClassicReplay]

Target Renegade. But yes, I need to remake this early video with commentary.

[@TechRyze]

@@ClassicReplay Really doesn't need commentary - just needs a list of the games in the description - ideally with timestamps.

[@InsideSmoke]

That Ikari Warriors title screen haha, how did they mess that up? Would have looked better if they left the faces blank

[@ClassicReplay]

I know, my five year old can seriously do better 🤣

[@InsideSmoke]

@@ClassicReplay It looks like someone used an eraser on the original faces and asked a 5 year old to draw smiling faces on

[@harryproctor3046]

Space Harrier was a terrible game! Fax.

[@ClassicReplay]

That’s just your opinion. I loved it 😊

[@johnworf]

i agree space harrier wasn't a good game - too random controls.

[@chrismarkhill]

Wow I remember the game at 45:49 but not the name - can you help? :)

[@ClassicReplay]

Ball Crazy ;-)

[@ev0lizard]

computers or arcade coin no arcade without computers

[@purplehaze2342]

I have to say chase HQ for the amstrad probably beats any 8-bit port including the pc engine

[@ClassicReplay]

That sort of talk will get you everywhere in these parts ;-)

[@Nick-Cooper]

Where to find list of this games?

[@ClassicReplay]

CPCGamereviewsdotcom

[@shifty2755]

Werewolves of London?

[@TheMasterblaster32]

Looking at this and my ps4 I'd swap for this console.... Anybody want to trade?

[@ClassicReplay]

It's good to see people are still able to maintain a good sense of humour as we transition out of lockdown ;-)

[@TheMasterblaster32]

@@ClassicReplay hahaha well thank you 😁 nice video fella gonna drop you a sub now, was a bit busy earlier... All the best with the future content.

[@DJDanceClassic]

I feel sorry for kids in the 80s

[@ClassicReplay]

Why? We had Renegade, Target Renegade and the excellent ChaseHQ! The 80s and early 90s were great times for music, movies and life in general. Plus we also had access to arcade halls on our doorstep, if you lived in a city. It’s the new generation I feel sorry for.

[@DJDanceClassic]

i am sorry. I feel sorry for kids with amstrads!

[@ClassicReplay]

@@DJDanceClassic See above ;-)

[@InsideSmoke]

@@DJDanceClassic I feel lucky that my first gaming machine was an Amstrad CPC 464. It was an amazing time

[@DJDanceClassic]

@@InsideSmoke i feel sorry for kids with Amstrad CPC 464 machines. Are you ok now? I can give you medical assistance in a safe environment if you need help.