Amstrad GX4000 | History and Games

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[@amstradienschannel1643]

Shared in AmstradiensFB. well done this video. Smart presentation 👍🏻

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Much appreciated! Take care!

[@grinbrothers]

I have no history or connection with Amstrad but boy do I love the design of the GX4000 console. Switchblade on it and the Sonic GX being made both looked fantastic and this was a lovely coverage of the system's short history with some fascinating tidbits of information.

[@ParkProductionsGames]

Awesome GX4000 video. Very enjoyable.

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Thank you! Appreciate your feedback! Take care!

[@tigertimma]

Excellent video! I have a lot of nostalgia for the GX4000 after seeing it in a shop as a kid and playing on Burning Rubber. I didn't play on one again until ~25 years later, when a load of new-in-box GX4000 consoles got dumped on ebay and I picked on up for cheap. I only have Burning Rubber though, I need to get hold of one of the flash carts so I can enjoy more of the games library, and I believe you can also load up normal CPC games too. But any console with a scart socket built in is a winner! :-)

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Indeed! :) Thank you so much for watching and for sharing your memories and thoughts :) Take care! Cheers!

[@DeckardGames]

Never had the pleasure of messing with one. This is obscure stuff to me and also cool to get some knowledge. Very nice video mate!

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Thanks for the support, David! Appreciate it!

[@benjaminnice]

Thanks Pixel Thing, I never knew anything about this console.

[@itsaPIXELthing]

My pleasure, Ben! Thanks for watching! Take care!

[@Cuzjudd]

Me either

[@itsaPIXELthing]

@@Cuzjudd Now you know ;)

[@BrunoFonsecaPT]

Always found the GX4000 intriguing, but never enough to spring for one and they keep getting more expensive. Nice video as always (on a side note, I had at least 5 ads throughout the video... really killed the pace).

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Sorry to hear :( You know, KZbin places ads automatically so that we, content creators, don't have to worry and loose time with manually placing them. By the way, Patrons got to watch this video a full week early and without ads, though. Thanks for being here and for the support, Bruno.

[@cestusfr]

great video! have nice weekend.

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Thank you! You too!

[@somosdeamstrad]

Another great video as usual in this channel... You have done a pretty good job on documenting for the script of this episode! I am an owner of an Amstrad 6128 Plus and is an amazing 8 bit machine.... shame that it came out too late! Glad that the Amstrad scene is healthier than ever and there are seceral exciting developments on the way... From the 27 games I would also suggest Navy Seals

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Navy Seals is so awesome! Played it to death on my Speccy 128K+2A ;)

[@ArmandQ.]

I was always intrigued by this machine. I remember seeing it in some shop's window back in the day and it looked stunning, but the common conception at the time was that it was simply a CPC without keyboard, severely limiting the choice of games. Good system review, after 30 years my curiosity has been satisfied, keep it up 👍

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Thank you so much for watching and for your feedback, Armand! Appreciate it! Take care!

[@blahinc07]

Great Video! nice work! :-)

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Thank you so much, Vitor! Have a great weekend!

[@nandotunit]

Another amazing video with great history from your own devices 🥳

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Glad you enjoyed it, Fernando :)

[@flan_chowder118]

Got this when i was 4. loved burning rubber and navy seals. also the one with surfing and diving. California games was it called. watched my uncle play burning rubber till the end. seemed like a 24 hour race

[@MarisaAlmeida]

Desconhecia mas obrigado pela demonstração, bom vídeo! Abraço 👍🏻

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Sempre fixe descobrir cenas novas! Obrigado por estares aí!

[@lactobacillusprime]

Wonderful that you have a boxed system. Quite some interesting games in the small library of games.

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Indeed! :)

[@grzegorz__]

Amazing video showing this rare console ! :)

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Appreciate your feedback! Cheers!

[@dreamspheree]

Amazing video! I never knew much about this console but I've seen it around in retro conventions. Man that tennis game I had it on my pc back in the day. You always manage to bring up a forgotten title out of the gray areas of my brain 🧠! 🤘

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@itsaPIXELthing]

@Felipe M. Patrons get to see my videos early ;)

[@AnthonyFlack]

Love the enthusiasm for the much-maligned GX4000 here. I will do my part and make a GX/Plus-exclusive game one day...

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Nice 😁

[@RetroStu82]

Great video my friend 😃 and yeah i love pang to ✌

[@itsaPIXELthing]

It's the best! :) Cheers, mate! Thanks for watching!

[@hey.gamers20]

great video., your videos are always full with nostalgic i still have many Micro hobby consoles .

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Glad to hear that! :) Cheers, mate!

[@RGF]

I also have this baby.... Great video man... But sonic gx WOOW never had heard about it..... 👍 Thx for this great peace of hardware history....

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Indeed, it has its own place in video gaming history. Cheers, mate! Thanks for watching!

[@AmstradGGP]

Thanks for the Toki snippet ;)

[@itsaPIXELthing]

My pleasure! Keep up the great work!

[@GreenHillsZone]

Thanks for documenting this little piece of history of the euro computer scene! Robocop 2 seemed really impressive! And the upcoming Sonic 1 port as well, pity it's the game gear version and not the Master System one, which has a bigger screen resolution. Cheers!

[@itsaPIXELthing]

An awesome video to make :) Thank you so much for watching and for the support, Ivo! Abraço!

[@Mintcar923]

I had the C64 version of Burnin Rubber.. Now it’s on my PSP! It’s the one where your car can jump.. Weird in that I was just thinking of the movie Total Recall earlier today!!

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Nice :) Thanks for sharing!

[@RetroRaider]

I had the chance to get one of these for a very cheap price a couple of years ago, however I didn't got it due to the fact of its "poor" library, nevertheless its a very interesting system. A very capable 8bit machine and Imean, its Amstrad ;) I played that Robocop game in a emulator, and it looks AWESOME for an 8 bit game, also Burning Rubber, it almost has an early 16bit feel to it. It would be so cool to see a Sonic port in the machine hehe. Amazing video Pixel, great job on this one. Cheers ;)

[@itsaPIXELthing]

A pretty incredible 8-bit system that simply arrived too late. And yeah, Sonic GX looks incredible :) Cheers, mate! Take care!

[@somosdeamstrad]

I recommend you Navy Seals and Pang from the exclusives

[@alexfaria6551]

yeah to late on the market never seen one in portugal and at that time i had the amiga that was far closer to the arcade experience. bom video como sempre amigo força. hail stay safe all of you 🥃👍😎

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Indeed. Same here. Grande abraço, Alex! Tudo de bom!

[@lactobacillusprime]

Switchblade as a nice art-style. I like it a lot. Pong is a great game to play two-player. :)

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Couldn't agree more! :)

[@chrisd6287]

Ahh, so that's where your catchy intro chip tune came from.

[@104d_3rr0r_vince]

OK, I have a big problem with youtube right now. Didn't get any notification about this and as I saw not from others too.

[@itsaPIXELthing]

I guess that's a problem that only affects small content creators, like myself. Hope you've enjoyed the video, Vincent! Cheers!

[@104d_3rr0r_vince]

@@itsaPIXELthing At first I stopped receiving alerts about who subbed to me, I said OK. Now this is ridiculous. I have to check every channel to see if there is a new video.

[@104d_3rr0r_vince]

@@itsaPIXELthing OK it's official. They are cutting the mails with the excuse for the creators to have more visits. Pathetic my friend...

[@SeñorDossierOficial]

Sonic GX looks so beautiful

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Indeed, it does! :)

[@andromedaone3640]

Retrogames Ltd should do a remake, it always reminded me of a space ship from Buck Rodgers

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Yeah! Indeed :)

[@johneygd]

The amstrad GX4000 was definitely a beast, now if there was only an input for both cassette drive, tapedrive and keyboard, that console might could,ve been compatible with more software titles. What a misoppertunity from amstrad.

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Indeed. Thanks for watching!

[@HuntersMoon78]

Switchblade is awesome on the GX4000

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Indeed it is :)

[@nux3960]

Very interesting console I love it but game cartridges for this system are pretty hard to find these days, im a C64 freak XD Great video!

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Thanks for watching! Thanks for stopping by! :) Take care!

[@catvideojogos]

Achas que o Chase H.Q. II special Criminal Investigation existe mesmo para este sistema ? ( Penso que só se conhece 1 ou 2 cópias!? ) deste jogo .

[@itsaPIXELthing]

O jogo saiu quando a consola foi descontinuada. Muito poucas cópias foram comercializadas. No entanto, tenho as minhas dúvidas que existam apenas duas. Lembro-me de há uns anos ter sido vendida uma no ebay por perto de 1000 euros.

[@KgamesReviews]

Amigo bem caros jogos a consola parece uma nave bem fixe saber historia fica se sempre saber mais sobre algo não sei amigo excelente video amigo ...::) tennis cup 2 esta brutal amigo ..:) robocop 2 esta brutal switch blade ta top e pang adoro amigo ....) olha sonic corre bem ...:)

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Muita coisa boa está para vir para esta consola :) Adoro o Amstrad. Tem bastante significado para mim :) Abraço, k!

[@lactobacillusprime]

I might be tempting to use the system's controllers on other 9-pin atari style systems but they're not electronically compatible.

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Yeah, sadly.

[@somosdeamstrad]

They work in other 8 bit machines like the C64

[@d0dg3st4r]

I can’t find any way to emulate this console and Burnin Rubber … my first ever console and only game I had for it

[@itsaPIXELthing]

There are ways of playing GX4000 using RetroArch. You have a ton of tutorials here on youtube ;) Cheers! Have fun!

[@d0dg3st4r]

@@itsaPIXELthing between the cores and the ROMs I’ve found I’ve not been able to get it working so far …

[@d0dg3st4r]

@@itsaPIXELthing thanks! I managed to load ROMs that work and get a blue screen and learn to type run”burnin but nowhere on the internet does it tell me what’s wrong / what to do next. “Drive A: disk missing Retry, ignore or cancel?” Anywhere you can point me to for help? Thanks ☺️

[@PedroFerreira-sx2gd]

O computador amstrad nunca me atraiu muito, a única vantagem era mesmo as cores. Tem alguns jogos fantásticos, mas pouco mais. Na consola basicamente os jogos de cartuchos era quase iguais a cassete mas muito mais caros. Uma menção honrosa para o panza kick boxing. adoro esse jogo e ainda n se faz nada parecido até hoje. Merecia 1 remake pois tem uns controles fantásticos e unicos e uma variedade de golpes enorme (mesmo para os dias de hoje) tendo em conta que só tinha 1 botão. Ainda o jogo de vez em quando. Outro flop interessante é o Sam coupe. O manic miner lá é qualquer coisa.

[@itsaPIXELthing]

O Sam Coupe é deveras bastante interessante. O Super Spectrum :) Obrigado por assistires, Pedro! Bom fim de semana!

[@SeñorDossierOficial]

I like micro hobby Magazine :"v

[@itsaPIXELthing]

I love Micro Hobby! :) My source for Speccy related novelties back in the 80s and early 90s ;)

[@klaudijevtrkaciteritorij4301]

not bad console for this time,but SNES and Sega Megadrive was been too powerfull for him

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Indeed.