what is your favorite game for the Amstrad GX4000?

[Deleted member 12790]

We'll go ahead and be generous and say that any game that can run on the machine counts, including homebrew and CPC conversions.

Mine is pretty obviously Sonic the Hedgehog:



A close second would be Ghosts n Goblins:



If we're limiting ourselves to just retail released games, I guess I'd go with Pang



What's your favorite GX4000 game?

 

[Cucurbitacée]

Burnin' Rubber. But that's because the game I only ever played, on a demo kiosk in a supermarket back in the days.

 

[Deleted member 71]

I'll be honest that I didn't know about the GX4000 until reading about the Sonic project a few weeks back, but I'd just like to say that the fan port of Ghosts N Goblins is really impressive.

Fantastic stuff.

 

[Deleted member 12790]

Burnin' Rubber. But that's because the game I only ever played, on a demo kiosk in a supermarket back in the days.

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that's the pack-in title

 

[Cucurbitacée]

that's the pack-in title

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Indeed, and I suspect for many people it's the only GX 4000 game they "played" too.

 

[Tizoc]

I've heard of Amstrad but not this particular model.
Tell me more about it Krejlooc sensei.

 

[Deleted member 12790]

I've heard of Amstrad but not this particular model.
Tell me more about it Krejlooc sensei.

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[Cucurbitacée]

I haven't check in a long time, but it seems the price of Amstrad devices are now on the same level as other retro comptuers. Maybe it's time to sell my 6128...

 

[amstradcpc]

Match day 2 in any Amstrad system!.

 

[mclem]

This had led me down an interesting path: I remember Game Zone magazine from the 90s, and one of their things was that on the letters page, for the "Crap Letter Of The Month", they'd give away the GX4000 (With Burnin' Rubber, naturally). And now I've looked, and that seems to be a magazine that's been memory holed from history; I can find a few archives of covers, but I can find *no* archives of the content.

I wonder if I've still got any issues at home.

 

[Deleted member 12790]

This had led me down an interesting path: I remember Game Zone magazine from the 90s, and one of their things was that on the letters page, for the "Crap Letter Of The Month", they'd give away the GX4000 (With Burnin' Rubber, naturally). And now I've looked, and that seems to be a magazine that's been memory holed from history; I can find a few archives of covers, but I can find *no* archives of the content.

I wonder if I've still got any issues at home.

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if you do, you should consider scanning them and adding them to RetroMags, which aims to try and document and maintain all the old game magazines that no longer exist.

 

[gosublime]

Not really on topic, but my first brush with gaming was an Amstrad CPC 6128 - yay for a disk drive!

 

[mclem]

if you do, you should consider scanning them and adding them to RetroMags, which aims to try and document and maintain all the old game magazines that no longer exist.

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Yeah, the thought has crossed my mind (indeed, that was one of the places I was searching for scans). Not something I could do any time soon; I assume anything from that era is still at my Mum's, unless they had a clearout at some point.

 

[Deleted member 12790]

What is everybody playing on their GX4000 today?

 

[tiesto]

My friend has a GX400 and a flash cart, played a number of games on it but the only one that really stuck out as decent was Pang/Buster Brothers. The rest of the games just felt either mediocre or straight up garbage. I can see why this system never got a US release and languished in obscurity overseas.