{"id":2117,"date":"2015-05-14T14:09:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T13:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/?p=2117"},"modified":"2024-09-08T13:15:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T12:15:15","slug":"fatnick-has-a-gx4000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/2015\/05\/14\/fatnick-has-a-gx4000\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatnick has a GX4000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day I took delivery of something quite exiting: An Amstrad GX4000 games console.<\/p>\n<p class=\"size-medium wp-image-2146\">If you&#8217;re thinking &#8220;Amstrad?&#8221; and &#8220;Games Console?&#8221; don&#8217;t feel too bad: It lasted on the market for less than a year before being discontinued. It was home to just 27 games and shifted just 15,000 units.\u00a0 Good heavens. At the time my brother and I were notorious tech gluttons, but I don&#8217;t remember ever seeing the console outside of a couple of adverts in C+VG, and we definitely didn&#8217;t have any interest in it. Erk.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2156\" style=\"width: 229px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/108_Nov_1990_25.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2156\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2156\" src=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/108_Nov_1990_25-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"GX4000\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/108_Nov_1990_25-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/108_Nov_1990_25-scaled-320x437.jpg 320w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/108_Nov_1990_25-110x150.jpg 110w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/108_Nov_1990_25-749x1024.jpg 749w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/108_Nov_1990_25-900x1230.jpg 900w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/108_Nov_1990_25-scaled.jpg 1873w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is the Advert in question, in fact. \u00a320m advertising budget and they couldn&#8217;t even get the real batman&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Unboxing the thing today though, it&#8217;s actually an impressive little unit. Far smaller than the marketing material made it seem, it looks surprisingly cool. Sporting a vaguely wedge shaped and featuring all kinds of fun little fins and detailing, it actually makes for a better looking Star Wars ship than most of the ones found in episodes 1 &#8211; 3. Give or take a couple of engines, of course.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2142\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6139.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2142\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2142\" src=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6139-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"GX4000\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6139-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6139-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6139-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6139.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">See! It doesn&#8217;t look THAT bad, all things considered.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Sci-Fi, a quick look round the back reveals a futuristic approach was taken to the console&#8217;s outputs. Sure, you might have the usual RF out found on pretty much all retro consoles, but alongside an 8-pin DIN plug for wiring the thing up to a monitor there&#8217;s actually a fully-fledged RGB scart socket there to. A scart socket! in 1990! Blimey.<\/p>\n<p>Even better, the front of the machine has both the usual 9-pin Atari-style controller ports, a port for an analogue joystick and a stereo audio-out. This was clearly a machine from the future. In fact, like the SNES, the GX power button even included a locking mechanism to help hold the cart in place &#8211; and this was well before the SNES was released. Could the GX be a great, relatively undiscovered console?<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, while the exterior is impressive, things take a turn for the worst when you plug in Amstrad&#8217;s controller. Shamelessly inspired by the Master System and NES, the controller is a basic rectangle with 2 fire buttons and a d-pad. While the exterior of the console was relatively forward-looking, the inclusion of a pause button on the console rather than the controller exemplifies a design that was clearly stuck in the past.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2145\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6143.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2145\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2145\" src=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6143-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"GX4000\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6143-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6143-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6143-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6143.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s difficult to capture the pain in a photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And not just stuck in the past, but stuck in the past in the worst possible ways as well. Regardless of whether you lean towards cross or disk-shaped d-pads (Amstrad went with the latter, FYI) it&#8217;s clear that Amstrad&#8217;s design is among the worst of the lot. While the fire buttons might be reasonably effective, the d-pad is stiff, unresponsive and surprisingly spiky. When coupled with the pad&#8217;s remarkably small size, this makes it a relatively painful controller to use for any extended period of time.<\/p>\n<p>So if the exterior had surprisingly high production values and the controller surprisingly low, what about the internals? Well, plugging in the (again surprisingly-small) bundled cartridge for &#8216;Burnin&#8217; Rubber&#8217; and flicking the power switch reveals 3 things. All of which are unwelcome:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>There&#8217;s nothing in the way of fancy BIOS or splash screen to introduce you to the console.<\/li>\n<li>Though an awesome sound chip in its own right, the sound is clearly being produced by an AY-8912; The same soundchip used in the CPC and Zx Spectrum, and first used in the Intellivision a decade earlier.<\/li>\n<li>Though a quick run through of Burnin Rubber reveals technical enhancements over the likes of the Speccy and CPC, we&#8217;re unmistakeably dealing with an 8-bit machine designed to go up against the NES and MS, rather than the Megadrive and (future) SNES.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div id=\"attachment_2139\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BR2.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2139\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2139\" src=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BR2-300x196.gif\" alt=\"GX4000\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BR2-300x196.gif 300w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BR2-320x209.gif 320w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BR2-150x98.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unsettling Amstrad signs aside, the Burnin&#8217; Rubber turning animation is a little bizarre<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So as the specs go it was definitely underwhelming. As far as software goes, however, the actual list looks pretty good &#8211; within reason. From Batman the Movie and Barbarian 2 through to the Likes of Operation Thunderbolt and S.C.I, the GX looks like it has a reasonable amount of software. The only problem, however, was that most of those games were nothing more than straight ports of the existing CPC titles &#8211; only priced at least double the cost of the tape version.<\/p>\n<p>Worse, the GX itself was actually a cutdown version of Amstrad&#8217;s Cpc+ range of computers. This means some of the game design wasn&#8217;t even fully optimised for the console. If you change the control scheme in Burnin&#8217; Rubber, for example, you have to manually nominate controls for left and right &#8211; something that makes sense on a keyboard but feels a little alien to a console gamer.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>Consequently, it isn&#8217;t too hard to see why the GX4000 failed as a console at the time. There is an amusing sting in the tail, however. While the machine had a \u00a320m advertising budget and a glitzy launch in Paris, from a gamers perspective much of this was sent in totally the wrong direction. For some reason, the marketing team decided to focus heavily on the arcade side of gaming in the promotional material, even though there were only a handful of arcade ports available for the machine (Klax, SCI &amp; Operation Thunderbolt.) and this automatically led on to unfavorable comparisons with the Megadrive, with its ever-growing library of near arcade perfect ports.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2140\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BR1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2140\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2140\" src=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BR1-300x195.gif\" alt=\"GX4000\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BR1-300x195.gif 300w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BR1-320x208.gif 320w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/BR1-150x97.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Good old Ocean. Impressive evening effects!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Considering that Amstrad was owned by Alan Sugar and the marketing handled by his future TV sidekick Nick Hewer, the GX4000 effectively saw the Apprentice dream-team making the very mistakes (not understanding the customers, competition or the market in general) that they&#8217;ve regularly lambasted their contestants for making over the years. Oops.<\/p>\n<p>As a modern collectors piece, it&#8217;s a slightly difficult one to recommend. The system can be picked up boxed for less than \u00a340 if you look hard enough, but each of the 27 games seem to have been produced in such small production runs that they regularly sell for above \u00a350. You know you&#8217;re in trouble when eBay auctions for commercially-released titles <a href=\"http:\/\/gx4000.co.uk\/main\/?p=69\">are considered as news worthy events by the fan sites.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2141\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6138.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2141\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2141\" src=\"http:\/\/mechafatnick.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6138-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"GC4000\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6138-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6138-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6138-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/fatnickindustries.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_6138.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gx4000 vs MD Cart. It&#8217;s not as big as i thought it would be&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Still, I must say that even with access to just the one cart, I do have a soft spot for the thing. It&#8217;s a funky little console which contains my favourite sound-chip and whose software library comprises of an interesting snapshot of the 8-bit Microcomputer market in 1989-1990. There&#8217;s also multicart available for the thing, so I look forward to spending a bit more time with it soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do you like the sound of the AY 89-12 soundchip? Why not check out my Speccy Jams album <a href=\"https:\/\/mechafatnick.bandcamp.com\/album\/speccy-jams\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day I took delivery of something quite exiting: An Amstrad GX4000 games console. If you&#8217;re thinking &#8220;Amstrad?&#8221; and &#8220;Games Console?&#8221; don&#8217;t feel too bad: It lasted on the market for less than a year before being discontinued. 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