Celebrating the Amstrad CPC 6128 | Trash to Treasure Pt3 

I still think it all belonged to me :p I'm glad you enjoyed it and some old memories of your brother, it was a pleasure to make

Thank you I'm glad you enjoy it. I guess we do tend to flock to those closest to us although I do like to collaborate further afield, with Winston and Naomi in China most recently and Bastien from the Minitel episode returns soon for another French collaboration. Maybe I should look to the US in a future one for some more perspectives

Of the American RU-vidrs I watch, I think The 8BitGuy's videos are most similar to yours in content (a lot of computer restorations), while Lazy Game Reviews is most similar in overall style. It might be interesting collaborating with them, because from what I've seen, the 8-bit era seems to have been like a different world, over there. Fewer microcomputers, consoles were more prevalent, and, of course, the video game crash they seem to think was global was a large shaping force. If I recall, The 8BitGuy has been working for some time on a video series on the Timex Sinclair machines.

@@NoobixCube There was definitely a different computer/videogame culture in the US than in the UK and Europe. There wasn't a nationwide push to teach all children programming like what you had with the BBC Micro and the Computer Programme. There were computers in schools, but they were expensive Apple IIs and IBM PCs, and there were hardly enough to go around, so during our limited computer time we worked a lot more with learning office applications and running educational software like the Oregon Trail than learning BASIC. There was also a stigma against kids who could program, because Americans, then and now, are anti-intellectual bullies. We also didn't have cheap entry-level computers like the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad. Timex tried selling the ZX81 over here as the Timex Sinclair 1000 and it was a colossal flop. The Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit computers were here, of course, but most people just used those for games and then promptly abandoned them when the NES rolled around. Software was also more likely to come on disk or cartridge instead of tape so that brought the price of computer games up. We didn't have any £1.99 special budget releases like the ones that I hear Kim Justice going on about all the time, except for all of the Atari 2600 games they were liquidating after the crash. And if your family had a computer, most likely your parents bought it for work and it was undoubtedly an IBM PC or Macintosh, neither of which had games anywhere near the quality that you saw on the NES or Master System. That and the huge advertising push Nintendo had in the US (along with illegal monopolistic tactics designed to keep Sega and Atari from putting their consoles in the same stores that sold Nintendo's) meant that if you gamed in the mid-to-late 80s and early 90s, it was most likely on a NES. So yeah, it was a completely different world over here. But certainly UK and US RU-vidrs could find some common ground...?

We're a friendly bunch, and always happy to work around time zones further afield.

It's like a Marvel Universe movie with all the retro RU-vidrs doing cameos. Great to see the gorgeous OcataviusKitten as well! Some of may favoutire Amstrad games not mentioned Dynamite Dan (1, not 2) Renegade Get Dexter, my absolute favourite. Keep up the good work!

A tip: watch series on InstaFlixxer. Been using them for watching a lot of movies during the lockdown.

@Vivaan Albert Yea, been watching on InstaFlixxer for since november myself =)

Ross Atkin I don’t usually get the chance to appear on Neil’s channel as I normally act a chauffeur for Thomas. It was great to have a trip down memory lane.

I love it when the Venn diagram of non mainstream interests overlap in this way much like the 8-bit Guy i3/Volt videos. I will figure out one day how to interface my Sam Coupe to my i3......

It was actually quite a common trick. I think Ultimate were using a SAGE machine to do the same thing, and Bell and Braben did something similar similar with the Acorn Atom and the BBC for Elite. Probably a safe bet that any developers who were knocking out games at the rate the Oliver Twins were was probably doing something similar.

ATV Simulator was strangely addictive. A bit like a spiritual succesor to Kickstart 2.

Indeed, I remember it being super hard though, makes Dark Souls look like a Kirby game! Oh to be young and have tonnes of time to pour into a mega hard game

You're welcome and thank you for watching

very kind thank you sir!

welcome mate .. keep at it i know you'll crack 100k soon

And here is the link to Octav1us's extended Roland Video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1TGW0eUCDHU.html

Chase HQ was my fav game on the 6128 when I was a kid 8) subbed

Many thanks

Thanks! I should get around to more consoles some day, I tend to favour things which have been covered less but I do love a Megadrive/Gensis

RetroManCave i think you have an unique recipe here and would love to see your take - it seeks you talk about these things in a way different to most people who do, on the surface similar, videos

Thanks for watching it was an extra nostalgic episode for me

Of course, it was Lotus Turbo actually, Or Power Drift. :)

You absolutely certain it wasn't Continental Circus?

Maybe, could have been Roadblasters or Fire and Forget... or maybe not

If I can make "Elmo Sexwhistle" go "OOOH!" I'm doing something right!

Welcome to the future Conrad

@@RMCRetro Almost. Now i need to get the cables for my PAL LCD, and i've run out of disposable income lol. Should be fun learning about it!

Plenty of love for the ammy in retro circles. :)

Hey thank you I appreciate it

Just remembered, I paid £15 for a TAPE version of Strider from WH Smith or maybe Boots when they used to sell games. That was amazing but partly that might be me wanting it to be as I'd paid my entire birthday money stash for it.

He works very hard to maintain that shine

How did he get it to shine so much? My dome is not as shiny 😭

Knuckles the Echidna I polish it for hours! I wonder if retro-brighting would help?

EV Opinion I dunno I think the UV darkened look is the best!

Knuckles the Echidna I think you’re right and the old blemish does give an air of distinction!

Spindizzy yes! That was a really fun one and any of those Domark Freescape games like Driller, castle master and total eclipse. A little slow to play these days but astounding at the time

oh Rampage! That one slipped my mind, I had a lot of fun plucking people out of windows with that one

The never ending Rampage. ha

I had barbarian too. I can vividly remember being able to cut your opponents head off and blood coming out. My parents used to make me show all of the visitors who came over. They thought it was hilarious.

Agreed, the MSX also suffers from lazy speccy ports but there are some gems when it's done right

One of us one of us one of us

Exactly... about 2 double decker buses.

RetroManCave By the way, the format you’ve got going here is excellent. I could easily see this running on TV.

Thank you! Who knows.... maybe one day :D

Isn't it just? :)

He has a channel about electric cars over here ru-vid.com/show-UC6ePGHwMBH-Ow4gHuIKJ9oA

It came in the Amstrad Pack 12 bundle, with the likes of Fruit Machine and Galactic Plague. :)It was also in the spectrum and even later down the years, the Mega Drive.

Novabug ahh fruit machine that was another favorate the space bar got pressed many times because of that game thanx for reminding me ☺

I bet that saw you go through a few broken joysticks!

I found it trawling Ebay a few years back.

Ah, I’ll have to keep a look out for one. Thanks! :)