The arcade business of the 80s and 90s was a decidedly daunting one. While some games achieved immortality by being ported to every home platform under the sun, less popular titles died an anonymous death, living on today only through obscure ROM dumps found Read More …
Players: 1 If there was one thing the fledgling GX4000 needed, it was an unquestionably epic (and preferably exclusive) action title. In Fire & Forget II it almost had one. Though the original Fire and Forget appeared on everything from the Amiga down to the Read More …
Players: 1 Back in 1990, a console simply wasn’t a console unless it had a light gun with a couple of games to go with it. The Amstrad GX-4000 was no exception of course, and if you had the mis/fortune of finding yourself equipped with Read More …
Players: 1 If there’s one lazy generalisation people make about old videogames, it’s that games based on films were generally quite bad. Though this wasn’t necessarily the case, there do inevitably have to be some stinkers in the cinematic videogame pile. Sadly, the interactive adaption of Read More …
A rose, as some talentless hack once put it, may well smell as sweet by some other name…but there’s no denying that certain titles come with some pretty unavoidable connotations. Take the name ‘Crazy Cars’ for example. I don’t know about you, but I can’t Read More …
When you look at the title of our next GX4000 game, Copter 271, it looks like something’s missing…a ‘Heli,’ perhaps? Either way, it turns out that the title’s pretty apt. Turn the power on, and you’ll find out that there’s something missing throughout your gaming Read More …
Blimey! Three reviews in and we’ve finally stumbled upon a GX4000 exclusive…and pretty much the most important exclusive at that! Developed by Ocean specifically for Amstrad, Burnin’ Rubber was the title that every GX4000 and CPC+ owner found sunggly packed into their new console’s polystyrene Read More …
Players: 1 Genre: Action We live in strange times. On the one hand we have a bizarre cultural fetish for 8-bit video game aesthetics, while on the other we often deride the actual 8-bit titles themselves (unless they are one of the safe, untouchable few.) Read More …
From Betamax through to Laserdisc, the history of consumer electronics is littered with some pretty spectacular failures. In the video game world, however, there are few failures as impressive as Amstrad’s first (and only) venture into the console hardware business: the Amstrad Gx4000. Released in Read More …
Genre: Adventure Players: 1 Its always best to start how you mean to go on isn’t it? How fitting, then, that the first GX4000 game we examine is one of the old CPC ports that dominated the GX4000’s library. Originally Released in 1988, Barbarian Read More …