Your 10 favorite Amstrad CPC games

[ivarf]

Here is mine
Sorcery
Renegade
Rick Dangerous 2
Knight Lore or Alien 8
Prince of Persia
TLL (Tornado Low Level)
Gauntlet
Bomb Jack
Arkanoid
Venom Strikes Back
Savage

If you played and enjoyed games on the Amstrad CPC-series, please post your list

[matt]

Dizzy.

[paranoid marvin]

1.Spectrum emulator
2.C64 emulator
3.erm...

[ivarf]

Yes, many like the Dizzy-games although my favorite Dizzy-game is SpinDizzy

[Bub&Bob]

Dizzy.

That's how I feel when I have to look at those garish CPC screenshots - give me a dull palette any day!!

[Opa-Opa]

10 CPC games, thats funny.....

[gmintyfresh]

In no particular order:

1. Turrican - A great conversion and possibly one of the most beautiful games on the CPC, and it’s huge! I had months of play out of this.
2. Gauntlet – It has the speed of the arcade version and the wonderful graphics, loads of fun in two player too.
3. Rainbow Islands – Another excellent arcade conversion
4. Dynamite Dan – Brilliant music and an amazing challenge, can be a little frustrating but I love it
5. Eagles Nest - Wonderful gauntlet style game set in Nazi Germany.
6. Colony – You play a robot trying to grow mushrooms on a space base for profit, sounds strange but this brilliant resource management game.
7. Head over heels – Should be on everyone’s list, fiendish puzzles, great isometric graphics, and a wicked sense of humour. A true CPC great
8. Ikari Warriors – Great graphics and playability, quite close to the arcade version only cost me £1.99 back in the day and I’m still playing it today.
9. Gryzor – Pressing up on the joystick to jump is the only thing that lets this game down great conversion
10. Rex – Little known game with huge colourful levels, loads of power – up weapons, and tight gameplay make this a lovely little platform shooter.

[RocketRanger]

Yes, I'm going to ignore the retro-facists and name some CPC games I like too:

North & South, IMHO trumps the other 8-bit conversions - even the NES. The c64 conversion was good (but the battles sucked a bit), I just think the CPC graphics followed the original comics consistantly.

Elite, it was good on other machines too - but the CPC had a nice noise when you shot things.

Rainbow Islands, when you plugged the CPC into an amp it sounded like an arcade machine.

Rampage, I kind of liked the european conversions and this is the best version musically. I can't get the tune out of my head, and it's been nearly twenty years.

Chase HQ, the spectrum version with colour

Satellite Warrior, mostly forgotton Multi-Player Amsoft game, build satallites - send them to a moon and shoot your mates down. I loved this game.

Drip Zone, Public Domain breakout/arkanoid clone.

Renegade, It's a nice version

Barbarian, ..is best

The Bards Tale, The CPC had a nice community surrounding this game.

[RocketRanger]

7. Head over heels – Should be on everyone’s list, fiendish puzzles, great isometric graphics, and a wicked sense of humour. A true CPC great

I hated isometric puzzle games, one of the first CPC games I played was Knightlore and I got bored very quickly. I hated Batman too.

I'm sure they were just far too clever looking for me.

[gmintyfresh]

Yes, I'm going to ignore the retro-facists and name some CPC games I like too:

North & South, IMHO trumps the other 8-bit conversions - even the NES. The c64 conversion was good (but the battles sucked a bit), I just think the CPC graphics followed the original comics consistantly.

Elite, it was good on other machines too - but the CPC had a nice noise when you shot things.

Rainbow Islands, when you plugged the CPC into an amp it sounded like an arcade machine.

Rampage, I kind of liked the european conversions and this is the best version musically. I can't get the tune out of my head, and it's been nearly twenty years.

Chase HQ, the spectrum version with colour

Satellite Warrior, mostly forgotton Multi-Player Amsoft game, build satallites - send them to a moon and shoot your mates down. I loved this game.

Drip Zone, Public Domain breakout/arkanoid clone.

Renegade, It's a nice version

Barbarian, ..is best

The Bards Tale, The CPC had a nice community surrounding this game.

Yep some good titles there, I'd forgotten about how good Renegade was, I'll have to dig that out

[gmintyfresh]

7. Head over heels – Should be on everyone’s list, fiendish puzzles, great isometric graphics, and a wicked sense of humour. A true CPC great

I hated isometric puzzle games, one of the first CPC games I played was Knightlore and I got bored very quickly. I hated Batman too.

I'm sure they were just far too clever looking for me.

There were good and bad isometric games, I must admit I wasn't a huge Knightlore fan myself some of the puzzles were a little too unlogical and difficult to be fun. But I loved both Batman and HOH

[RB]

Drip Zone, Public Domain breakout/arkanoid clone.

Auntie John's old WACCI PD game - not played that for years! It was a cracking little game.

[Mootown]

Being the proud owner of a Green-screen CPC464 with stereo speakers, I feel I can add some value to this also

(I have no idea how good these games were in colour though !!)

In no particular order:

1. Super Robin Hood - Awesome platform game, finished it!
2. Head over Heels (of course)
3. Batman - the movie one, not the Jon Ritman isometric
4. Robocop - was also real good on Amstrad - great music too
5. Crazy Cars! - Transforming cars
6. Rygar - was ACE on Amstrad
7. Thundercats - so was this - best version in fact
8. Treasure Island Dizzy
9. The Bards Tale - played this for hours. Looking back it was actually a bit crap.
10. Super Ski Simulator - seriously. I liked this.

Also, Never play Wizball on Amstrad. It's really, really, really S H I T

[Scooby1970]

Here goes...

01. Ikari Warriors
02. Sorcery
03. Arkanoid
04. Barbarian
05. Head Over Heals
06. Galaxians
07. Turrican
08. Rainbow Islands
09. Blagger
10. Gauntlet (Defender Clone)

Mark

[sleeper77]

My fave 10 CPC games in no particular order:

1. Operation Wolf
2. Robocop
3. Chase HQ
4. Target Renegade
5. Amsoft Fruit Machine
6. Ikari Warriors
7. Barbarian
8. Ghostbusters
9. Batman The Movie
10. Gothic.