amstrad games top 20

My fav top 20 amstrad games from years gone by.Have tried not to stick any Plus machine titles in but i think 1 crept in.
Will probably review them all in time and do another video of the ones that didnt make it to the top 20- was so hard putting so many in and missing so many out.
These are just my favourites so watch and enjoy - many more to come and on different formats to.
:-)

[@alexandermirdzveli3200]

Gaming video with music instead of native sounds? BAD IDEA :(

[@Jaguar1910]

Vrai en plus c'est même pas la même époque et que viens faire Mario là dedans

[@fromthegamethrone]

Yup, instantly made me click away

[@guillaumepalace3181]

Bombjack ! Barbarian ! Crazy car 1/2 ! Boulder Dash ! Fruity Franck ! Cauldron !

[@HealthNutriNexus]

Ikari Warriors, Commando...

[@MrMerrick671]

Crazy Car 2 with the Ferrari F40 !!! Crazy game !!!!

[@OwtDaftUK]

Rick Dangerous is kinda like a pre-cursor to Tomb Raider in a way.

[@scumd]

Ikari Warriors, Navy Moves, Manic Miner... soooo many more that I could even remember...

[@HHHSOHS]

Ikari warriors wowo what a game that was....

[@GeorgeSerafeimidis]

great list!!! i could add: boulder dash, silk worm, green beret, cauldron, gauntlet, thanatos, equinox, ghost n goblins, barbarian 1

[@thepeterson]

Amstrad had some of the best looking games on home computer at the time.

[@AllyJC]

"This is Nancy at Chase HQ". Some great games featured here. Anyone interested in CPC games should also check out Werewolves of London, Laser Squad, Myth and Target Renegade.

[@cihaniboule4708]

Ikari Warriors and boulder dash were 2 of the best games and should be in top 20 :)

[@davidbryant8584]

From this list Chase hq, renegade and especially gryzor were big favourites of mine on the Amstrad cpc. Awesome video buddy and brings back loads of great memories!

[@tazong]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@fs2728]

Where is "Fruity Frank"? That was the best ever!

[@RetroStardust]

Not to forget: Ramparts Golden Axe Fruity Frank Nodes of Yesod Kaiser

[@Vargon7]

Some favourites of mine in that 20. Others:- Rebelstar and it's sequel Laser Squad (turn based tactical combat), Bruce Lee, Chuckie Egg.

[@dagmarlubczanski1519]

Bomb Jack - the best arcade game for Amstrad / Schneider CPC !!!

[@Sam-fc5nv]

In my top I should have say : Barbarian, crazy cars II, Robocop, Rambo III, Dragon ninja, Fruity Frank, Skweek, Target renegade, Bumpy, Infernal runner, Captain Blood, Operation wolf, saboteur...

[@promitheasklaras8498]

Hero Quest, Head Over Heels, Power Play, Savage, Turrican, Rick Dangerous, Thanatos, Werewolves of London, B.A.T, North and South some of my favorites

[@DEVILTAZ35]

thanks for the nostalgia trip for it's time it was a brilliant machine and actually had stereo sound / 26 colours compared to the c64's 16 but unfortunately for the most part it lacked the chip to do parallax scrolling which was all the rage back then. There were also far too many Z X Spectrum ports which usually meant the C64 versions were better for most arcade games at the time. There are some standouts though i loved Ikari Warriors and the amstrad version was awesome.

[@GuillermoSTD]

Insteresting.. While every gamer would make a different list, yours is particularly different from mine. Just a question though: I thought many Spanish games made for 8-bit computers found their way into other markets, how come you didn't include a single one in your list (e.g. "Freddy Hardest", "Game Over", "Phantis", "Livingstone, I pressume?"...)?. Didn't you like them as much, or did you simply not get to play any of them?

[@selphietilmitt8152]

saboteur, and how is it possible to not talk about Boulder Dash ^^

[@tazong]

Folks - these are just my favourites - everyone will always have there own top 20 - these were just mine :-)

[@TEOKRATORAS]

IKARI, COMMANDO, FRUITY FRANK, WONDER BOY

[@unclemax8797]

and battlefield 1942

[@figfox2425]

Xyphos Fantasy !!!

[@RETROGAMERS]

Big collection man!

[@HHHSOHS]

r-type, ghosts n goblins,rick dangerous, sorcery, terramex, gunfright, friday 13th, wizball ,paperboy ,gryzor,robocop and many more some of my favourites

[@TahreyUK]

These are properly impressive for the machine's power and memory. How did PoP manage to do hi-rez with 16 colours though, I wonder?

[@jeschinstad]

Two very notable omissions in this video; Alley Cat and Tapper. Both great games. (There are gameplay videos on YT)

[@blakecasimir]

And Sky for the soundtrack. Good show, sir.

[@unclemax8797]

i nearly had all the games you mentionned before 1990 my favorites remained commando, and battlefield 1942 ( which is not the same as the battlefiel we know have on our ps3) chauldron was n3

[@BarbaricAvatar]

Totally agree with #1, but the list needs more Starstrike 2!

[@brothermaleuspraetor9505]

Yes! more such as Cauldron, Project Future, Kane, Tau Ceti, BOULDER DASH!!!, Knight Lore, Highway, Airwolf, Yeah, you even had to do a top 20...'cause there are just so many :)

[@tony22990]

Very nice video my friend! Rick dangerous & Renegade were 2 of my favorite games.Exolon must be one of the first games i played on my cpc,

[@dasilvarama]

• Match Point (on TSAM II) - Check; • Sorcery (regular - 464 tape only) - Check [mum loved this one!]; • WDW II (on another compilation) - Check; • Trantor - Last Stormtrooper - Check; • Chase H.Q. - Check; Dang - what was I doing? Oh yeah, playing more simulator types :-D

[@tazong]

the song is called Toccata by sky

[@darrenwilson99]

No it isn't. Born To Be Alive by Patrick Hernandez

[@cardiacade]

Awesome nostalgia. Cybernoid, Barbarian 1 and 2, Fairlight, Heavy On The Magik, Operation Wolf, Ghosts'n'Goblins, Space Harrier, Alien Highway, Dizzy, Robocop, Thanatos, Kane, R-type, Gauntlet, Spikey Harold, Super Robin Hood, Stryder, Commando and Death Wish (!). I miss my CPC 6128.

[@Didier88600]

And a little game called spindizzy.

[@cardiacade]

@@Didier88600 that too!

[@Enderu666]

What's the song in the first half?

[@MrBSAKing]

Interesting choice of background music!

[@Dave-rm1mb]

Chase HQ was a favourite of mine although I preferred it on the Amiga 500

[@koma70400]

Prohibition, barbarian, Skweek, Marauder, Anarchy, Navy moves, green beret, Arrkanoid, fruity frank, boulder dash, AMC, Skate crazy, Metrocross, Netherworld, the 5th axis, Slap fight... This is just my list bu there are so many others...

[@shifty2755]

Great song used here. Born to be alive by Patrick Hernandez.

[@donaldcramond9641]

i had a 464 and the disc drive and the only 1 game i had on disc was elite. Elite was my favorite 464 game.

[@Akutogo]

Freakin' loved Exolon!

[@daysgone2997]

my top games were dizzy, ikari warriors, double dragon, wec le mans, renegade, solomons key, gryzor, rastan and super sprint

[@OnlyInTheBlueNight]

Manic Miner, and the Ultimate series Knight Lore, Night Shade, Gunfright, Batman, Head Over Hills...

[@donaldcramond9641]

I loved get dexter. i used to play it with a cheat that you had to type in.

[@reqontra]

What's the name of the game visible at 00:24? The linear one

[@distorFM]

tempest. Port from legendary arcade... i guess.

[@nialldunne9430]

Eh ? Where's Spindizzy, Batman, Head Over Heels, Knight Lore and Sweevo's World?? At least you included Get Dexter.. :)

[@JB_inks]

Batman was in the list

[@jaymorpheus11]

the music in this video is annoying, I don't care if there's just a little churp sound, please show the original game sound.

[@MarkBak76]

Barbarian, Flying Shark, Bomb Jack, Commando, Chase HQ, Match Day 2, Gryzor, Gauntlet, Ikari Warriors, Space Harrier, Operation Wolf, Renegade, Target Renegade, Solomons Key, Paperboy, Yie ar Kung Fu, The Galactic Plague (first game ever played), Ghosts n Goblins, R-Type, Bruce Lee

[@CloneShockTrooper]

I owned a C64 but a friend of mine had a Amstrad :) and the graphics was not that bad :)

[@slacr]

THRUST!

[@donaldcramond9641]

Get dexter was awesome.

[@PluckDuckTuck]

Trantor, Cybernoid and Aliens were among my favourites. Plus a game were you turned into a werewolf but can't remember name. Oh and Last Ninja 2 because of the free shuriken and hood i got with it.

[@manicdataminer]

Knight Lore

[@Fjertil]

Way of the Exploding Fist, Saboteur, Big Trouble in Little China, Boulder Dash, Helichooper, The Last Ninja (I still have the soundteck in my mind)... and my the best (with Barbarian): Island of Dr. Destructo.

[@donaldcramond9641]

I had 1 of these when I was 14/15

[@aservirfrais]

que de souvenirs

[@LeSarthois]

You don't even need to replace Prehistorik 2... Prehistorik 2 was released on CPC with a trick to enhance the graphics when played on Plus machines but run on "CPC mode" on standard CPC machines.

[@dartsma464]

Prince of Persia is in lowres, 160x200 in 16 colours. Thats how mode 0 looks on the Amstrad CPC

[@FranckRipley]

Zombi, Bomb Jack, Ikari Warrior, Barbarian, Saboteur, Robocop, The way of exploding Fist, Commando ? :o(

[@armondtanz]

Way of exploding fist and IK+ has to be on there...

[@chriswinspear7965]

Exolon was class, what about Freddy Hardest, Gauntlet, Slapfight, Barbarian, IK+ and man more!

[@benjamindurand6438]

wtf original sounds and music plz cause the vid is ok

[@gordonblues843]

Where is Laser squad? The bard's tale? Arkanoid? Ikari warriors? Paperboy? Myth?

[@manuelcarballo4297]

Obviamente, no ha puesto ningun videojuego Español. Que buenos los hay y muchos. de hecho no esta el mejor de todos los tiempos. La Abadia del Crimen.

[@tecnoopiniones3293]

Más de acuerdo no puedo estar!

[@tecnoopiniones3293]

Y añadiría: Alien 8, Night Lore, Batman (el de perspectiva isométrica), Army y Navy Moves, Bomb Jack, Ikary Warriors, Comando, aventuras conversacionales que fueron precursoras de als aventuras gráficas como, La aventura original, Los pájaros de Bangkok, La aventura espacial, ... Fernando Martín Basket, Ghost Goblins, Game Over, After Burner, Arkanoid, Manic Minner....

[@faiser7588]

@@tecnoopiniones3293 olímpic games 1992

[@HealthNutriNexus]

En España había grandes empresas de videojuegos y grandes juegos que muchos se perdieron por falta de distribución en otros paises. Todos los juegos de Dinamic eran increibles.

[@HealthNutriNexus]

@@tecnoopiniones3293 Freddy Hardest

[@josepcg5488]

I can't understand why Skweek is not included.

[@pepebest666]

Juegos de atar-i?

[@davidfox8791]

Find it really hard to get games for this game unit only really had two games for it

[@rogermiot]

thx for this video ! but at my opinion it's not the true graphics (perhaps you put resolution interpolation ?)

[@ClaudiaShifferLA]

Roger Miot I think that he is using an emulator with some "antialiasing"

[@julienbraudel7109]

Some french games, sweet.

[@VineWhineChannel]

Chase HQ epic

[@pepebest666]

Muchos de los juegos que salieron aquí luego los llevaban a los recreativos o a otras consolas.

[@pepebest666]

Empiezan dejándoles jugar a esto y terminan haciendo todo...

[@TheVanillatech]

All I can say is that Croco Magnetto, Anarchy, Renegade, Dizzy, Rick Dangerous, RadZone, 3D Stunt Rider, Laser Squad, Barbarian, Heavy On The Magik, Game Over, Myth, Pyjamarama, Saracen, Terminus, Feud, Jet Set Willy II, Roland In Time and Ghost Hunters better be in this list, or I am calling BULLSHIT!

[@_serkanakdogan_]

#Good #Video

[@phak74]

L'interet de ces vieux jeux c'est la bande son,alors ne pas la laisser plutôt que de mettre des musiques de looser

[@mage3504]

pourquoi ne pas avoir laissé les musiques originales des jeux ? la toccata ne va pas je trouve et est trop agressive ! Sinon super les jeux cpc

[@pepebest666]

Para mi que a más de uno no le dejaban jugar aunque pudieran...Creo que sería para hacerles más malos o para que luego vendieran los juegos inmaculados más caros como reliquias.

[@frange]

I don't like your top 20, but some of them were good games like Prince of Persia, Batman the movie,Chase H.Q... I think there were a lot of fantastic and classics games like Donkey Kong, Match day 2, Arkanoid, Skate Crazy, the other Batman game, Robocop, Gauntled, Thingy and the Doodahs, Abadia del crimen, PoogabooThe Great Escape....

[@figfox2425]

Xyphoes Phantasy !!!

[@doukas1983]

fruity frank the best!

[@trocoloco]

so where is La Abadia Del Crimen?

[@josemorant7457]

8:23 Sonic 1 Green Hill Zone palms.

[@MarcGameplays]

Where is Head Over Heels??

[@jongarmendia3798]

Lotus Challengers Indiana Jones y la última cruzada Game Over

[@petrichor2889]

49 seconds of logos _ding_

[@Boddah-XLII]

Miss original games sound ((

[@pepebest666]

Ayer se daría cuenta, porque se lo dijeron, al de korea que lo han estado utilizando para que a mi no me pusieran nada...

[@dk-pop4351]

Bloodwitch

[@aguelomultimedia]

Just 20 games ...not fair play ! jajajajajjajaja Good choice anyway.

[@symboss953]

Prince of Persia is the Best Amstrad CPC Game

[@RAPIDMANFIRE]

vroom ?

[@SevenDeMagnus]

Amstrad looks better than the BBC Micro, BBC Master and ZX Spectrum but a bit graphically better than the 1983 Famicom/NES. God bless, Proverbs 31

[@Pagafantasbr]

No original sound? Wtf?

[@mno5e]

Te falto el Street Rod 2 amigo.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Rod_2

[@ClaudiaShifferLA]

Martin Olinik Pero ese juego fue para Amiga y para PC, no está para Amstrad :(

[@mno5e]

mmm bueno pero es divertido :P

[@user-zk4lo4fw2n]

Ура

[@user-rg5qk5dd2v]

barbarian

I wos sick once...)

[@erwan44150]

Arkanoid ?

[@pepebest666]

¿¿Por qué será que los "más malos" jugaban a estos juegos?? Siempre están haciendo a otros o diciendo de alguna forma lo que yo hacía. Siempre utilizan a los demás para parecer que son ellos los que saben

[@Squiffilect]

PATRICK HERNANDEZ BORN TO BE ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!

[@correoafg]

Ni un juego español, con los que hay...

[@HealthNutriNexus]

where is Ikari Warriors or Commando? This is the top 20. Boooo :)

[@lukebrooks8071]

What the actual fuck.... My ears are bleeding

[@javiergomez3481]

I think that great games are missing in this list and toccata and fugue is not the best music for this video.

[@marviosantos]

Especially this atrocious version, seriously man

[@blakecasimir]

+Marvio Botticelli Check your ears, sir. Sky were brilliant.