Amstrad GX4000 - All Games (Full Collection)

[@EamonBJWyse]

Had one of these alongside a CPC6128. Loved it and especially loved Navy Seals and Operation Thunderbolt.

[@kevc3148]

Most of the games look pretty rough but the realism in "Wild Streets" (10:32) blew me away

[@GenMaster]

@@kevc3148 Those games that look rough are ports of old CPC games that didn't take advantage of the new hardware. You should check out a few of the homebrew productions... Bubble Quest, Ghosts 'n' Goblins (by Golem13) and Sonic GX to name a few.

[@retroreplaysvault]

True, Wild Streets does have some standout elements despite the overall look.

[@GenMaster]

Depends on what you mean "rough", but then again, most of them are verbatim CPC ports too, so...

[@EaZyKiNg]

Such a good looking console to have such terrible looking games

[@GenMaster]

@@EaZyKiNg The upcoming games are as beautiful as the console itself.

[@blackenedheart9592]

Late reply I know but I agree with you 100%! The console looks way better than a Famicom or Nintendo hell even the Sega Genesis in my opinion but man these games are terrible 🤣🤣 I do give thema little bit credit, There's one or two games here and there that actually look better than probably what a Nintendo would but it's sad that there's only a few of them. The rest of them look completely like garbage.

[@GenMaster]

@@blackenedheart9592 Have you seen Sonic GX? Its developer, NoRecess, even dropped a new video for our viewing pleasure...

[@GenMaster]

@blackenedheart Have you seen Sonic GX, then?

[@nickwest932]

Neat console. I always wanted one.

[@retroreplaysvault]

I got this console complete in box a couple of years ago. It's been a blast to explore all the GX4000 games! 😄

[@nickwest932]

@retroreplaysvault Thanks for showing off to us that can't find one easily.👍

[@Hamdad]

This came out in 1990? Same year as the SNES? How did they think it would compete?

[@GenMaster]

@@Hamdad It wasn't meant to compete with the SNES.

[@itsmatt517]

@@GenMaster No kidding, turns out it wasn’t able to compete with anything

[@mortenera2294]

​@@GenMasterYeah, maybe they should've released it 1 year earlier...

[@GenMaster]

@@itsmatt517 It was certainly _able_ , seeing as it was far superior to the other 8-bits, but sadly it didn't get the support. At least now it's getting the attention it deserves.

[@GenMaster]

@@mortenera2294 No one complained at the time about the release window. The magazines revered the technology under the hood, no one claimed it was too late (especially Amstrad fans, we were very excited!) or that it was meant to compete with 16-bits (although there were some instances where some reviewers said it rivaled certain aspects of the 16-bit machines, imagine that... I remember such comments on games like _Burnin' Rubber_ and Prehistorik II). The truth is that had the machine got the support it deserved and had Amstrad not made so many mistakes marketing wise, it would have succeeded.

[@biozertman]

My second console After atari 2600 ❤❤

[@gamegenie8213]

I was hoping that you would have footage of either Chase HQ or Gazza 2 at the end lol.

[@retroreplaysvault]

Let’s pretend that Chase H.Q. 2 and Gazza II were never released on GX4000 😀

[@gamegenie8213]

@@retroreplaysvault You can definitely get away with saying that the games were finished but they we’re not commercially available as I’ve been trying to get hold of Chase HQ 2 for nearly ten years now to complete my collection and still no luck. Anyway mate, good video. Hopefully more will come in the future, possibly coving homebrews?.

[@retroreplaysvault]

I understand your struggle with Chase HQ 2! Thanks for the support, and I'll consider homebrews for future videos!

[@robsmall6466]

​@@gamegenie8213Sure you are aware already but there is one vid of Chase HQ 2 on GX4000 on YT. Just so you can see what it looks like

[@gamegenie8213]

@@robsmall6466 God imagine how many views it would get if someone did a complete play through?. Thanks for being kind to mention it but I have seen it before.

[@greensun1334]

No bashing here, but the 160x200 resolution mode looks awful, at least on a non-CRT screen. Its designer Cliff Lawson claimed the GX-4000 is at least as good and powerful like the SNES, most likely just because it had a slightly faster CPU (4mHz vs. 3,58mHz). Lol.

[@itsmatt517]

An Amstrad CPC without a keyboard, what a silly idea

[@iXien]

It's not a CPC without keyboard. GX4000 is a Plus system without keyboard. Plus/GX4000 systems are compatible with CPC but offer 4096 color range, DMA sound, hardware scrolling, hardware sprites with there own colours and resolution, and others. Available in 1986 or 1987, it would have been a nice system to play on. The bad idea was to release it in late 90 😉

[@itsmatt517]

@@iXien Yes, the CPC Plus then. It was still silly to release any CPC without a keyboard though

[@iXien]

@@itsmatt517 Make the difference between CPC and Plus is important. Have you noticed these computers are called 464Plus and 6128Plus? It's because even Amstrad considered they are not really CPC computers. It's the users that decided to talk about CPC+, never Amstrad. The question is : Why do you think it's so stupid ? After all, every consoles are computers without a keyboard. Without a keyboard but with a 2 button joypad, you could make on GX4000 all the kind of games we enjoyed on consoles. For example, in 1990, text based adventure games already disappeared, prefered to point'n click productions. Using the new Plus featured and the cartridge system, you could make far more things on GX4000 than on CPC, even with 64Kb RAM (Megadrive uses 64Kb RAM too). So there are a lot of reasons about the unsuccess of the GX4000, but selling the equivalent of a 464Plus without a keyboard at cheap price could have been wonderful, made correctly and at the right time.

[@itsmatt517]

@@iXien I thought the whole appeal of the CPC range was the accessibility to be able to input basic code from the point of powering on?

[@iXien]

@@itsmatt517 Yes, you have an OS at startup, and that's right that a CPC and a Plus computer, or any other computer system like a C64 or a Spectrum permits to make so much more than playing. But these systems are fabulous playing systems too, so why not thinking about release a console using the architecture of a CPC/Plus computer, just to play 🤩 ? Nowadays, you can play most of the CPC games on GX4000, and it's a real pleasure to play Ikari Warriors, Arkanoid, Gryzor (Contra), Rick Dangerous, Cybernoid, Shinobi and so much more games on this little console. The GX4000 can offer the comfort of a console with a joypad to play games previously available only on computer like the Monty series, Jet Set Willy, Motos, Elektra Glide, Prohibition, etc. And when a homebrew developer decides to create a real GX4000 game, whaoooo, we can see the wonderful things we could enjoy if it had been seriously distributed at the right time 😉

[@Faceplant-hl5yn]

The games werent bad if it was 80's but why release this console when the snes and genesis/megadrive are being released

[@kiillabytez]

With every pixelart-type game, you really should enable scanlines. As seen in this video, the graphics look horrible without it enabled, because the graphics were designed to take advantage of scanlines.

[@akumajobelmont]

That's a very subjective take on it. I mean, I prefer to use a nice CRT shader for my own emulation, but there's no getting around the fact that KZbin compression makes scanlines look pretty messed up in videos.

[@retroreplaysvault]

Thanks for watching. I appreciate your feedback, and I agree that it’s very subjective.

[@0800styles]

Panzer kickboxing, RoboCop 2 and Klax look cool but woah the sound!! Sounds as basic as an Atari 2600 in some places 😬

[@retroreplaysvault]

Yeah, the sound on the GX4000 definitely wasn’t its strong point!