Tag: GX4000

Octopus 21, Game and Watch for GX4000 and Amstrad CPC Plus Updated

Octopus is a Game & Watch game released as part of the Wide Screen series on July 16, 1981. In this game, the player must get as much gold as they can. However, they must watch out for the Octopus near the treasure because if they touch its arms, they lose a life. Losing all three lives results in a…

Kung Fu Master, Amstrad GX4000

Kung-Fu Master, known as Spartan X in Japan, is a side-scrolling beat ’em up game developed by Irem as an Arcade game in 1984, and distributed by Data East in North America. Designed by Takashi Nishiyama, the game was based on Hong Kong martial arts films. It is a sequel to the Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung film Wheels on…

Retro Rewind: Space Cowboy in Lost Planet, Amstrad CPC/GX4000

The space cowboy is back. After a long battle with the ZeR0 forces, he managed to escape, but his ship was destroyed. After drifting through space for a few days, he has crash-landed on a small nearby planet. The ship is totally wrecked. Dante needs tools to fix the ship and escape from this planet. But not all is bad…

New conversion of Ghosts’n Goblins available for the Amstrad GX4000

Fans of Amstrad’s GX4000 console might be excited to learn that a new, high-quality conversion of Capcom’s seminal coin-op, Ghosts’n Goblins, has been released for free over on cpcwiki.eu by the game’s developer! Those of us who grew up during the 1980’s will remember just how poorly so many arcade conversions for our humble 8-bit micros turned out to be, so…

Reidrac’s Dawn of Kernel promises to be one slick shoot ’em up for Amstrad CPC fans!

Amstrad CPC fans will soon have cause to celebrate since we learned that  Juan J. Martinez (Reidrac) is hard at work on his latest project, The Dawn of Kernel, along with artistic contributions from Dylan Barry (loading and title screens). Set in the reaches of outer space on planet K3E-NL, disaster strikes when the outbreak of a computer virus manages…

Picrocs, New Amstrad Homebrew Version of Picross with a Crocodile Theme?!

Picrocs is a new Picross Clone Homebrew game with a Crocodile theme! for the Amstrad computer. The game ranked second with 13 votes to 40 in the compo “Croco or Dragon” organized by Amstrad.EU following an idea of Snake Plissken. You can download the game over at http://www.cpc-power.com. Source: http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/