AMSTRAD CPC - 30 Games Considered Perfect 

I remember Harrier Attack, Oh Mummy! and Roland In The Caves coming with my Amstrad - fantastic memories.

I would have had Sorcery and Boulderdash on that list too.

Having a green monitor, i feel sad that I missed these beautiful colors.. Best palette of the era.

I can't argue with your favourites!! I would have added Way of the Exploding Fist.

Although im more of a spectrum guy in 8bits, I do love both CPC and c64. It just happens to be the CPC 's turn in the rotation on my retro desk so yeah, I will be playing all these on my 1084 monitor. I miss those simpler times.

(off the top of my head) Missing from the list: Saboteur I & II. Jack the Nipper 2. Prince of Persia.

Most of them are my favorites too. I may add Green Beret, Sabre Wulf, Knight Lore and Secret Armor of Antiriad.

I love all three of the great 8 bits. I had a C64 myself but I could appreciate that all three machines had their great titles. I played my friends Amstrad and Speccy's all the time. If only to find the best versions of our favourite games. Great memories.

Fruity Frank, Sorcery , Hunchback and Sir Lancelot. I never had a CPC,but my youth club had one,and that's the four I loved playing.

Such a simple game as Oh Mummy, and we spent hours and hours on it!

I'm happy you mentioned Arkanoid. It's a simple to play game that's not on the 64 maxi carousel. Never mind, I can make a new firmware with some of the games you've reminded us that are great or underated. 4 super tough games on all 3 machines, Speccy, 64 and CPC, are Exolon, Spiky Harold, Cauldron 2 and Frostbyte. They are'hair-pullingly-out' annoying.😊

I had the CPC 464 and today liking this video made 464 likes, in some small way my life feels quietly fulfilled giving a thankful nod in appreciation to your video, many rainy scottish days , harrier attack and more mentioned here allowed me many of my best fun filled hours of my very young life when i started my computing journey .niiiiice.

Bruce Lee on the Amstrad was blocky as hell, even worse than the C64/Atari versions. The Speccy version played faster than all the others, but I liked Atari/C64 versions (they were near identical) best. Head Over Heels on the Amstrad was awesome and the best 8-bit version.

No Donkey Kong? the CPC version was pretty much arcade perfect.

First game I played on the CPC was Sorcery ... I owned an MSX and it was at my best friend's house ... Man, to this day I'm still jealous ^^

Played most of them. Would put the Code masters rugby game. Ghostbusters 2. Silkworm in there too. A great list. Nostalgia childhood trip. Thank you

Jet set willy and 2 were great

I put so many hours into Bruce Lee. Fantastic game. There were a few games I'd forgotten in that list, so was a great watch thank you. I'd probably throw fire ant, Barry Mcguigan boxing and Robin Hood in there for me personally.

Commandos theme tune is the tune Chase from the 1981 film Hundra.

Gryzor!/ contra

Elite, Starglider, Tau Ceti, Codename Mat.... I think I was one of the first Space computer pilots.

Is this a re-upload? I'm sure I watched this yesterday. 😕

Ikari was my Favorite on Amstrad too!! what a cool game!

Loved Arkanoid on the Amiga 500.

I`ve got a Amstrad in past ,but only played Freddy hardest from that list.I remeber:Krakout,Saboteur 2,Kung fu,Wizard lair,Moon Cresta.Mach 3,Revolution.

Some great picks, mate. As fantastic as Ikari is, I prefer Who Dares Wins II, for reasons I can't really justify. My absolute favourite on the Amstrad and one element I particularly enjoyed was the more tactical play introduced by flip-screen. Actually went back and completed recently for the first time without cheating.

Great games, played for hours on my friend's cpc6128. I still think Robocop was better on the speccy, having finished both cpc and zx versions.

I have no words for Gryzor. To me, it was the pinnacle of how close an Amstrad could get to an arcade.

3:00 FEUD - I spent my of today hacking this game, I managed to get invincibility but so did my nemesis :)))) Tomorrow I'll do it right. Exolon clearly isn't perfect, ZX version is much better. Too bad you neglected "Rogue Trooper" it just shines on Amstrad CPC leaving ZX and C64 versions far behind. Thanatos is also the best on CPC. Tau Ceti is amazing and would be the best if it were not for its sluggishness on the stock CPC, good thing we have emulators that allow us set 125% speed (or more).

My God, I had completely forgotten about Avenger! I honestly can't remember where I played it, but I am pretty sure it wasn't on my own c64, so it was probably by a friend or at the library or something like that.

does anyone remember Showdown in Tombstone city? I absolutely loved it, was the best shootout challenge for us kids back in the day....oh, and of course Daley Tompsons Decathlon....

Great list - personally, I would have included Fruity Frank and Sorcery (Plus) - and 3D Star Strike.

Batman the Movie. Best game I ever saw on the Amstrad. I remember seeing this as a kid and thinking it was impossible to make any game look that good.

For myself, Slapfight, Xenon, The Trap Door and Silkworm and Head over Heels would be top 5..

Chucky egg 🥚 was the brilliant omg was hard and very frustrating but loved it,commando was amazing too

Bomb jack.. Yeah

Some great choices on there and many I agree with for my own list. Some personal favourites of mine not included are Prince of Persia, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2, Chase HQ, X-Out, Treasure Island and Fantasy World Dizzy and Batman. Had so much fun with these games.

Great vid dude id have included Combat School and Trantor the last stormtrooper if id done a list 👍🏻

Thanks for this video and those great memories. I did not try all described games but I was really hooked on Ikari Warriors when I was a teen !

Omg.... Oh mummy 😊

Despite its lack of popularity compared with the commodore 64 the Amstrad is surprisingly a great machine whose games are comparable to the commodore - that chase hq is undoubtebly better than the commie and ik+ and emlyn hughes are pretty much the same. Its a wonder why this machine didn't get the notoriety it deserved when compared to the 64 (perhaps it was significantly more expensive to the 64) with its much superior color pallet.

Nebulus, Sorcery, Prohibition, and you miss all the ERE Interactive and Lankhor games such as Mortevielle Manor ...

First video of yours I've seen (I think so anyway) and really enjoyed this. I was a Spectrum kid, also had a C64 a little later on but it's way too easy to overlook the Amstrad versions of so many games, which in many instances were better or the best you could get. It's a shame there were a lot of lazy Spectrum ports (which often, by default, ran more badly) but when the developers put in the effort on the CPC it so often paid off. Subbed =)

La abadía del crimen!! Better game of all games.

Can't disagree with any of those

Well, this has opened my eyes. Amazing.

Never saw the draw of Joe Blade but maybe I'm missing something, and I'll let you off "Oh! Mummy!" as a guilty pleasure/nostalgia pick. You're not alone in your assessment of "Who Dares Wins II." It's actually my favourite game on the platform to the extent that I went back and managed to complete it for the first time recently. I think the flip screen benefits it and makes it a somewhat more tactical game. Anyway some great picks there. Thanks for sharing.

I loved playing Ikari Warriors on the Atari ST and it’s amazing how good it looks on the Amstrad CPC. 👍

Hello, thanks for your video. I remember Amstrad CPC 464. I used to play it when I was a kid. It was a gift from my parents' friend in the 1990s. The montior was green instead of colours. Sadly it went banjaxed years ago and it went to the scrapyard in summer 2014. I missed playing Amstrad CPC and I would never forget it. Anyway some Amstrad CPC games I've only played are Blagger, Paperboy, Sultan's Maze. Oh Mummy, Roland on the Ropes, Dizzy Fast Food and The Galactica Plague, one of the games featuring hoodies as enemies (sorry I forget its name) and Animal Vegetable Mineral. I wonder if Sky should make a compilation of classic Amstrad CPC games including the ones from Amsoft sometime in the future. Greetings from Ireland

P47, Smash TV, Prince of Persia, Super Cars and Audiogenic World Class Rugby were some of my favourites but some good games on this list

As a C64 kid, i know very little of the Amstrad but I'm very impressed with the graphical quality demonstrated here (Barbarian looks ace). If ONLY the Amstrad had a better sound chip.

Ikari Warriers was great. Harrier Attack! was the first game I played on it. Quite a few I've never heard of. Yie Ar Kung Fu looks so modern.

Gryzor should really be on this list. As should be Crafton & Xunk (french name of Get Dexter), North and South, Defender of the crown, Mortevieille Manor, Billy la Banlieue, The 5th Axe, Zombie, and Sapiens.

oh i forgot Mata Hari that was a good game too :)

Loved target renegade, but it was a shame the graphics didn't live up to the original.

Super Hang On, Ranarana, Bairds Tale, Spellbound, Spindizzy, Finders Keepers, Xor

I had these 2 games that I can't find anywhere. One I don't remember the name, but the character has a jet pack. It was moving slowly by walking but pretty fast when flying. I have not been able to complete the game, I was not sure what the goal was. I still have the melody in my head. Another one was called "Collapse" I think, it was a platform where you (looked like a bear on the cover) needed to collect some items from the screen. If anyone can identify these games based on my crude description, that would be great!

My Dad would take me and my brother to Toys R Us back in the late 80's. We always got to pick a budget game each. One time he picked a random game we'd never heard of, turned out to be Feud. No instructions, nothing. And we had no idea what we were doing. Years later perhaps 1990, I decided to load it up again and got hooked! Finished it eventually! Super challenging game but, once you've played it so much you know where every single ingredient is by heart, it's do-able. Feud is up there with Barbarian, Renegade, Croco-Magneto, Saracen, Jet Set Willy 2, Roland In Time, Anarchy, Terminus, Pyjamarama, Deathstalker etc. Definitely one of the best CPC games of all time. I prefer the original Dizzy over it's sequels. Something about it was just really simple and appealing yet really challenging game!

Harrier attack woop woop

Glad you mention avenger, it's a great game even though i don't undersand the life jauge system

Shadow of the beast, commander Blood, Eagle's rider... what a ride !

here are my faves: 3D Star Fighter American Turbo King Barry McGuigan's Boxing Batman Batman the movie Biggles Bionic Commando Black Tiger Blade Warrior Bridge It Captain Dynamo Castle Master 1 Chuckie Egg City Slicker Defenders of the Earth Deliverance - Stormlord 2 Dizzy - Amstrad Action Special Edition Dizzy - Prince of the Yolkfolk Dizzy 4 - Magicland Dizzy Finders Keepers Flash Gordon Glider Rider Harrier Attack Hobgoblin HyperBowl Jonah Barringtons Squash Kikstart II Killer Gorilla Knight Lore Maze Mania Myth Ninja Warriors, The Oh Mummy On The Run Ping-Pong Ranarama Roland in the Caves Roland on the Ropes Spike In Transylvania Stormlord Striker - In The Crypt of Trogan Sultan's Maze Super Cycle Super Gran Super Hero Super Soccer Super Stunt Man Thrust Thrust 2 Titanic Blinky Turbo the Tortoise Vixen Way of the Tiger, The World Series Baseball

Nice selection. I never had a CPC but when I was a kid I always loved formers screenshots in game tests due to its vivid palette.

The hours I put into Bombjack..... Thrust, Chuckie Egg, Gauntlet, JSW2, 3D Starfighter and Infiltrator were great too. I quite liked the Bubble Bobble port but it hasn't aged well. Games that could have been good if they weren't so bloody hard? Stormlord and Cauldron! Arkanoid was truly excellent but like any port it really needed a paddle controller.

My Mum bought a 6128 (colour) back in the day, and I used to spend hours and hours pretty much playing this set of games. OMG Robocop was so fast on the CPC

Anyone remember “Dan Dare” and “Jack the Nipper”?

Where is Myth??? 😢

Miss Tau Ceti, but great list.

U.N. Squadron , Deflector, spindizzy, so many to choose from. Amstrad had some really great games and a few terrible ones too (Out Run...etc!)

Harrier attack perfect? Am I in a parallel universe?

Not Green beret, Jet set willy, After the war, Satan, Army moves and, of course, Navy moves? Really?? Why you always forget about Spanish software?

Green Beret, Desperado,Saboteur, Prohibition, Fruit Machine, Manic Miner,... buff! great games!!

A few I'd add: - Sacred Armour Of Antiriad - X-Out - Trailblazer - Split Personalities - Tubaruba - Fairlight - Astro Marine Corps (AMC) - Wizzball - Roland In Time - Jet Set Willy 2

My first computer was a CPC 464 and the first game I ever played on it was Harrier Attack. Man I loved that game. I loved a lot (if not all tbh!) of the games on your list! This was a properly enjoyable walk down memory lane! I actually have a brand new in box CPC 464 upstairs (no monitor sadly), just for the nostalgia lol Still fire up some of these games in an emulator now though... in fact... I know what I'm doing tonight!

great shouts.... i loved both emlin Hughes & Who Dares wins 2! Bomber Jack was a classic. You have great taste dude!

Great memories 😊

Some classics , no way Bruce Lee cpc was better than the 64 one tho mate!!

Thanks for the good memories with my old Amstrad. I also remember one of my favorite game: inertie (ubi soft) 🕹️

I'd also put Batman and Jack the Nipper. Played IK+, Ikari Warriors and Laser Squad for days with my best friend. But my fave game was Get Dexter (Crafton & Xunk) which was absolutely perfect.

Missed this video even though my sub is set to all. I'd forgotten all about Joe Blade. Loved the graphics even though they were mono

Thrust was an incredible game….loved Target Renegade and Bombjack too

My only regrets from having this as a kid is using the monitor and not exploiting the programming features.

Arkanoid has horrible slow down. Rick Dangerous 2 is excellent though, very close to the Atari ST version.

Some shared memories for me too. I also loved Thrust and Commando. Remember Starstrike and Rebelstar and the great adventure game Rigel’s Revenge?

I noticed that Oh Mummy's music doesn't run as well on emulators as a large part of the soundtrack isn't heard.I had an amstrad and was able to hear it properly when I was a child.

Rescue on fractalus was one of my favourites used to play it for hours The donkey kong arcade conversion was also spot on

Jet set willy and highway encounter

You missed Sorcery + and T.L.L👍

Good solid list. Have to add Dan Dare, City Slicker and Batman 1989.

Also, the guy on the Barbarian cover art is Wolf from the 90s version of Gladiators :D

Correction, Commando on Amstrad is not the best version, the C64 is by far, and its even had a stronger rewrite which is even better with all the arcade levels. Please review it and play it. The Amstrad version is ok but it's not a patch on the C64

How could you not include "Cop Out"? It was the best game ever on the CPC.

On the strength of this fun video, I am subscribed. Wish we had wonderful 8 bitters like Amstrad, ZX Spectrum, MSX etc here in the US. But thanks to you guys putting videos out and emulation, yeah. I can see why these machines are beloved.

I hated the huge borders on a good portion of games. There was many classics though, remember going to bootfairs on the hunt for certain games

Ah man, this is a great list. I played many of them for houuuuurs. Barbarian, Dizzy, Gauntlet (played in co-op with my sister, when we got to the end of the tape we just rewound it and pressed play),, Way Of The Exploding Fist (shame I never played WotEF 2 on anything other than the C64), Oh Mummy... ...spent so much time playing Bombjack too. and Spy vs Spy. And a type-in knockoff of Boulderdash called Splatch! So many memories playing these. 42 years up to my neck in playing and writing games; zero regrets.

Great List! Harrier Attack and Roland on the Ropes kept me going for many hours.... Until I got some Proper Games that is... And Gauntlet, LOVED IT! ELITE was a game that I have to be honest, I never expected to ever like... But a Friend introduced me, I liked what I saw... And after I got used to teh controls... And switched from trying to play with Joystick and instead playing by keyboard... I literally lost almost 2-3 years of my life simply playing ELITE!!!! I even had ELITE for the Atari ST... That how much I loved it! Truly a great list, Even your honourable mentions!

My fav game of all time, Ikari on the CPC.

This is your list. Not my. Ikari Warriors, Savage, La Abadia Del Crimen, Goody.. and other great games.

Bar a couple I had all the games on your list and still have the amstrad up in dads loft - I need to dig it out

How did you ever have kids ? 🤦‍♂️