Amstrad GX4000 | The Retro Shed 

Back in 3rd grade in 1995 France, i traded a beloved GameGear for this monstrosity in the schoolyard on a afternoon just before the summer holidays. Felt betrayed, swindled and rummaging my pain for the entire summer months. This thing being a letdown is an understatement. Thanks for this trip down memory lane and its batch of PTSD.

impressive to see the 1990 console widescreen mode :D ;)

I had Burnin' Rubber on my 6128plus (wish I still had that) and I actually completed it, the graphics were good for 8 bit, and it didn't hurt that I had the proper monitor for the system as well, that monitor served me well for many years after being hooked up to an A500 plus.

I remember seeing these for sale in Dixons, they ending up in the bargan bin in no time.

That multicart is rad. And the graphics look great!

I think that you have to bear in mind that the Master System done really well in the U.K. and I think that was the market that Amstrad was going for but sadly most publishers took the cheap route and just ported CPC games to it.

This looks like better hardware than the NES. Up there with the Sega Master system. Too bad so little dedicated software were released

Brilliant video!! Loved this one!!!!

Amstrad bought the Sinclair brand in 1986. The Amiga 500 wasn't available then. Little software was available for the Amiga 1000 and Atari ST. The Amiga 1000 was very expensive. People still bought 8-bits the C64, Amstrad CPC and the new Amstrad made Spectrums. The japanese consoles weren't available. "People that knew their stuff wanted Amigas, STs and Super Nintendos" - you mentions this with the 1986 takeover. The SNES came 4 years later

Thanks for the vid, hope you are all safe and well. Never seen this console before, interesting.

Thanks for the upload! Great video again.

Never had one, hard to find but ...you know me, would grab one for sure.. :-) Great vid again!

Nice video as ever :) Thanks for the shout out too Did you try Switchblade? One of my favourites with great music by the late Ben Daglish

You are wrong about its specs....this console is based on the cpc+ range not the old cpc one. I remember that it had a pallete of 4096 colours, it could have a maximum of 32 colours on screen, hardware sprites and also had lightgun support! This was weak for a 1990 console but obviously much more capable than an old cpc in the right hands! Actually it is better than an nes or mastersystem.

It's such a weird mix of tech; including SCART and 8-pin DIN and RF all at once, yet the plastic body is cheap as F, including square instead of rounded stamp-outs. The video ASIC is also pretty good with enough large hardware sprites, scrolling, 4096 colour palette, 32 on-screen before line-interrupts to swap palettes (16 bg, 15 sprites, 1 border colour) and DMA support. It's pretty clear most games never came close to fully exploiting the hardware ... Spec-wise definitely the best 8-bit console ever, but years too late (like you said).

Burnin Rubber looks great

Just bought one of e-bay unboxed still factory sealed for £60 super excited .I be doing a unboxing video breaking them 30 year old seals lol

Nice one, interesting!

I leave you on your own for 5 minutes and you get that thing out!! Well really!!!

Can You plug in a genesis controller like you can on the 2600?

Sold mine to Criag !

I have a soft spot for gx4000 i know its bad

Ugh., was given a brand new one (probably still have it somewhere, can’t remember) only had Burnin Rubber!, bored within minutes 👎🎉

I know this is an old video but seriously, "the genesis, or as us Brits would know it, the mega drive"??? You mean the mega drive but as Americans would know it, the genesis? 😒

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