Allright guys! Sorry, it seems some people are a little confused, missed the full title and description, or maybe skipped the intro with me explaining. This video is not the 'top 10 greatest CPC games ever', but the top 10 games to start out with new if you're getting into the Amstrad for the first time with many people are picking them up on eBay having never owned one before. Or deciding to get an emulator for the first time too. So, IMHO these are the games that will give you the best 'overview' of the machine, it's history and what it can do. I've already done a 'top 20' video many years ago, although it's looking a bit dated now. So if you want me to do a new one, I will do. Of course, we can't all agree on what games would feature! :)

Oh man!! I remember it took ages to master Target Renegade kicking bikers off the bikes, and beating Big Bertha when she would run at you LOL

The Oh Mummy theme is forever ingrained in my head.

My Amstrad 464 CPC had a green screen, didn't bother me though. Pretty certain I had the Amsoft pack too. Sultan's Maze was one of the scariest games I'd played since Venture on Atari 2600. My first violent games were Renegade and Barbarian. Other games I had were 180 Darts, Green Beret, Soccer Boss, Platoon, The Great Escape -what a game that was.

Many a broken joy stick playing Daily Thompson Olympics. Harrier attack was my favourite. Just don't bomb your own boat on take off or you couldn't land to refuel

Still have mine. Boxed and tonnes of games! Great memories and loooong loading times. Imagine kids of today sitting through 12mins of loading time

I loved harrier attack. I'd press the ESCape key when my friends were playing for the first time, and it took them a while to figure out why the pilot kept ejecting lol

Loved Roland in the Caves as a kid. Got my CPC 464 around 1986/87 I think? Bought from The Co-op. Great days.

Was my first ever computer. Surprisingly I only played a few of the games on your list though (Robocop, Chase HQ, Renegade and Head Over Heels). I think Yie Ar Kung Fu was the first game I played on it, an old school Street Fighter 2 type fighting game, I still remember the theme music now! But for me the main memory of the Amstrad is playing all the Dizzy games (and spin offs like Seymour Goes to Hollywood), and swapping tips with classmates at school on how to get past certain puzzles!

I got the Amsoft pack when I was bought the Amstrad for my Birthday in 1985 iirc, Great video.

I loved Yi Ar KUng Fu. Gryzor and Ikari Warriors..and Robocop

Loved my Amstrad cpc 464 with green screen monitor. Emlyn Hughes International Soccer being my favorite game closely followed by Robocop.

Loved my amstrad cpc 464, received it for Christmas in 1985. Excellent selection, cheers from South of France

Wow, thanks for the trip down memory lane - happy days! My family still has the CPC464 in the loft including green monitor, adaptor for colour TV and the external floppy disk drive. Games that I remember fondly - in addition to a few you have listed in your video - include IK+, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2, Yogi Bear, Cammando, 4 Star Soccer, Batman the Movie, Tin Tin, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. On floppy disk I have/had Hudson Hawk, Turracan, X-out, Prince of Persia, Super Cars, Viz and Hero Quest. Loved the Dizzy games - especially Treasure Island and Fantasy Island. Always got excited for the next Amstrad Action magazine and was eager to find out what games/demos would be included on the cassette that came with it.

3D Stunt Rider and Sultans Maze were my favs from the Amstoft pack. Possibly Oh Mummy too!

Great video man. Brings back so many good memories. I;d actually forgot how good the graphics were for Robocop until I saw this.

wow i remember playing rampage on this as kid

Excellent Video as always Xyphoe, was the best computer I have ever owned, many fond memories of playing games back in 89 and completing the type in's with my Dad. - keep up the good work

Great video mate!!! I loved my amstrad it was the first computer I had!! I was about 7-8 when my dad brought one home! Great times!!

Brought memories back, thx dude 👍🏼

Thanks for the vid Xyphoe. Great to watch....more importantly loved the sound of the old girl loading! I miss that.. :)

That isometric one, that's one we had. It was ace ! Thank you soooooo much !

I got my CPC 464 in 1989 also. Absolutely loved it. Fantasy World Dizzy, BombJack, buying Amstrad Action and playing the weird games on the free tape. Great time to be a kid and we still had the Megadrive and Snes to come.

Great video, good choices of games, and nice to see you give a big shoutout to many other titles at the end. Gauntlet has to be my #1 on the old CPC.

Remember we used to get games from the library and record them onto a blank cassette on high speed dubbing. Worked every time.

Mad,didnt expect to find anything wen i typed it in.My faves are harrier attack,fruity frank and from the 12 pack we got wth it Fruit Machine,brilliantly simple but fun.

Wow the Amstrad was a beast. Fast too really great vid. Thanks!

So much Memories !!!! feeling old too :D

Great video! Demonstrates just how capable an 8 bit system the CPC is :)

Great video, brings back so many memories. I'm also glad to see Werewolves of London in there, I've been telling people for years how under-rated that game is!

so awesome..so many cool games..so many memories!..wish i still had my 464

Cracking games! A few more I loved are buggy boy, galactic plague, 3d stunt rider, commando, Rick dangerous and the dizzy games!

Thanks for the memories, my favouites, Sabateur, Football Manager, F! Grand Prix, Spy Hunter and Roadblasters.

Great showcase of some of the best games on the Amstrad. Chase HQ looks amazing. Was nice to see Donkey Kong in there as I just watched "King of Kong" last night - a documentary about the worlds best Donkey Kong players. Well worth a watch =)

Roland was something of an early Amstrad mascot, akin to Horace on the Spectrum, and 'ropes' was a port of 'Fred', a Spanish game published by Quicksilva for other platforms. I think the Chuckie Egg concept started on the Spectrum, but became better known as a BBC title as the port appeared roughly the same time as the spectrum was finished and released, and - being just as good if not a slightly better version - it stood out from the BBC games library more than the origional version did.

Excellent vid again zyphoe...just looking at the comments makes me realise just how many amazing games there were on the Amstrad but how we all at some point eked out hours of enjoyment from some of the worst ones as well! Happy days!

Excellent choices here :)

OMG the memories lol thanks for the video once again, I have to say my personal favs where all the dizzy games and the seymour games like wild west and at the movies.

Oh thanks,been trying pick up favorites from when i was kid.I'd forgot about Werewolfs of London.👌

Thanks for sharing these - some in there my mum will remember as much as me. We got our 464 before the free software bundle started shipping! :-| So many happy memories

Saw one sold at Southgate auction today, Keyboard, screen, 100+ games printer and about 40 magazines. Went for £65

I loved my amstrad, you should have shown it with the older Black and Green monitor :) Thank you for the trip down memory lane Xyphoe

Thank you so much for having Fruity Frank in there! It's my Nr 1, really. I might have included Boulder Dash, 'cause it's the best version of it, really, and maybe Sorcery+, and Android One.

another great video, i agree with nearly everything, OP Wolf ,Dr Destructo and Buggy Boy deserved spots, but thats my opinion :), keep up the great work!!

Great nostalgia. I remember loving The Sentinel, Deflektor, Gauntlet and Bombjack too. Played them for hours on my 464. Remember hating the Dizzy games and Everyone’s A Wally.

Good Video! Ten points from Spain.

So many memories!

The Way of the Exploding Fist, Fighter Pilot, Snowball 9, Speed King, 3D Grand Prix, Out Run and Winter Olympics. Awesome memories.

Ballblazer was amazing!

Heads over Heels and Gryzor - great memories. Never played Chase HQ but it looks really good.

Used too play this at my nanas from the age of 8 wow starting too remember some of these games nostalgic 👍

some great memories in this video

I got a cpc464+ for christmas in the early 90’s. Loved it. Took ages to load and most of the games were shit but there were some great games too, Ocean games probably the best, Robocop, Batman, Terminator 2. I also liked New Zealand story, all the Dizzy games. The Amstrad Action magazine demo games were good too. Gonna buy a reconditioned one soon I think.

You haven't disappointed, sir! Very pleased to see that you've chosen the more 'characterful' games as well as the big names: they're the games that made the machine. I mean, I spent hours on Roland in Time and Hunchback despite them being entirely crap! Loved Robocop though. Took forever to realize you had to get rid of your bullets to beat the bikers at the end of level 3.

Amsoft's 3D Grand Prix was one of the originals that I loved back in the 80s.

Nice list matey - never heard of Fruity Frank before but I'll definately keep an eye out for it :) Nice to hear Werewolves get a mention - a game I enjoyed as a kid and still have :)

Ive still got mine, gonna dig it out now for some nostalgia. Loved all the magic knight series, finders keepers, spellbound, stormbringer and knight tyme. Also cauldron and cauldron 2. Sorcery 😍

Chase HQ is like the Spectrum version with colour. Great conversion either way.

Never had a Amstrad, as I was a speccy owner back in the day, but the Amstrad had some class games too. Robocop and that Chase Hq look and play so well. Great video!🙂

Remember totally getting annoyed with paper boy game used to crash off the bike near end of the level, that cat lol. loved renegade.

I used a 464 from mid-'85 to '90. I still play CPC games via emulation. Favourites now:- Bruce Lee, Chuckie Egg, Rebelstar, Laser Squad, Boulder Dash, Who Dares Wins 2, Deathchase, Knight Lore, Fruity Frank, Splat. That 12 game pack the CPC was bundled with was mostly rubbish! Fruit Machine was mildly addictive, and that's about it. Harvey Headbanger is good if you can find another player. Motos is very good, too!

My whole family loved Fruity Frank! I always thought it was more of a Boulder Dash clone tho.

An excellent video for nostalgia, but there were three games I grew up with on the 464. Sorcery by far was my most memorable. Cylu was my second, and I even went as far as writing my own version of this using the Allegro game library a few years back. I'll leave that for Google search engine but just search Cylu and APEXnow on Allegro game library. The third game was Batman by Ocean Games.

Surprised not to see Bomb Jack there - I played it on the CPC464 when I was a little kid. I thought it was Amazing, compared to some of the titles that were shown in this video.

Dizzy, Oh Mummy, Fruit Machine, Harrier Attack were the most played in our house

Yie Ar Kung-Fu. Purely for the hilarious music.

The Aliens game for the Amstrad was also very good. Head over Heels was a really good one though. I remember Sabrewulf and Timberwulf too and one called curse of Sherwood I think. Warewolf of London was one of my favorite games ever too..

My first ever computer, used to spend hours on Dynamite Dan and Pyjamarama.

Some really awesome pick there and a great idea too as it isnt always "the best game" that is also the best one to play from the start ;)

No Bombjack ,ikari warriors or green beret ??...Loved those games

I used to own the AmstraCPC 464 - loved spindizzy and finally completing it! Absolutely impossible without cheat codes - Enjoyed the Amtips magazine which charlie brooker of black mirror fame used to write for - not a lot of people know that!

I remember hiring games from my local computer store and copying them, then loading the copy for the first time and praying not to receive the dreaded "Syntax Error". Fun times. On top of the games that have already been mentioned, some of my favs were: Spindizzy Elite The Sentinel Raid Over Moscow (later politically corrected to "Raid") Sorcery The Trap Door Spy Vs. Spy Switchblade

I had the CPC664, Floppy Disk drive baby!

That music

nice film, thanks

I remember playing chuckle egg for hours and hours. And completing it many times. After the big chicken level you get big chicken and the small chickens at the same time lol. A well made game for the time and very responsive. Also Rambo was a great game to and barbarian lol. Arrrr! The memory's. and not forgetting the monthly amstrad action magazine with helpful tips and pokes and type in programs. I couldn't wait for it to come out every month and must have collected hundreds of copy's lol. Good days.

Chase HQ took me particularly by surprise. Especially, and particularly when hills and shifting to rain came into play. Now that's just downright impressive for a system of that era! I shouldn't be too shocked though. A selling point of the CPC was the color and graphical tricks of a commodore, paired with the CPU power of a spectrum.

and while I'm on a piff inspired nostalgic flashback - I'd also throw into the mix, Who Dares Wins 2, Match Point and Knight Lore.

That flashing lights wow 😳

My grandmother had a 664 and the most played game was a version of Trivial Pursuit. There was one night in the early 00s when she moved into a smaller house after my grandad died, and we had a game for old time's sake. (It asked questions but you had to speak your answer aloud and have the other players verify you were correct before moving on. It really was basically a virtual game board rather than actually accepting answers directly into the computer. Still an incredible way of playing it -- the one big advantage was that they could play chip tunes for music questions.) Other than that, my favourite 8-bit game(s) was the Dizzy franchise. I had them on the 16-bit Amiga, but having first played them on my friend's Spectrum and Granny's 664, the colour versions on the Amiga always felt a bit...wrong. It didn't help that the Amiga Treasure Island Dizzy had a weird wrap around glitch if you got up too high at certain points of the game (many Dizzy games involved travelling amongst the clouds). Liminal spaces are prime triggers for my sense of horror, and out of bounds/glitches in games quite often work in that same way. (Don't talk to me about getting trapped in the scenery in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. I love the game, don't get me wrong -- I'm one of those weirdos who loves BIIIIIIG Ubisoft games that I can digest in small bits over a few years or so -- but getting trapped in the middle of a rock really is an annoying and irrationally upsetting.

For some reason, every CPC user I've asked prefers "Chase HQ" over "Wec Le Mans", also a racing game by Ocean, but I think the second one is vastly superior. 4 leaps broken into three checkpoints, all in one single load, plus the most smooth handling I've ever seen in a CPC racing game. And it also has one of the coolest loading screens in the CPC library. Check it out.

They look cool

For me it's: Aliens (Software Studios version - absolutely terrifying), Hard Drivin', Manchester United in Europe, Saboteur, Dan Dare, Paperboy, Alien Storm, Gauntlet, Barbarian, Batman, Daley Thompson's (Olympic Challenge?) Ghostbusters. Some of my very earliest memories are of playing Amstrad games with my big brother in the late-80s, and it took me about half an hour just to recall this short list. I'm sure there are a tonne more of them.

I had one of these computers and some of my best games where chase HQ, bubble bobble, Elite, target renegade, minder, rainbow islands all the dizzy games.

Just to say,...Chuckie Egg was a ZX Spectrum original (not BBC) and easily the best version,...fast, addictive,...just what a platform game should be,...just wonderfully perfect and a game I was really good at,...evidence shown in my upload :-D Target Renegade easily wins again on the speccy along with Renegade,...even though the C64 music on Target was incredible. Double Dragon II all round was the best on the Amiga,...but on the 8-bits I gotta give the award to the Amstrad. Chase H.Q was amazing on the 128k Spectrum thanks to great sense of speed and 128k in-game music, i'm soo used to seeing games slow on the Amstrad so it was a surprise to see how well Chase HQ moved on it, quite nice although alas no in-game music. Nice upload!

Loved ATF mint game still play in on my Rasperberry Pi

Great vid, played many of these, but how I miss that excellent DK port? Have to track that down! Contra/Gryzor on the cpc is wicked. Had to be Chase HQ for top game, it's brilliant.

Monty on the run was brilliant.

Rolland on the ropes, Bomb jack, fruit machine, galactic plague and manic minor was amongst my favourites.

I had it as a present on 1986. And my mom still keeps it. And she keeps her ericsson phone from 1997 too.

I played Werewolves of London on Spectrum. It was quite nice =3

awesome machine great memories, i still got mine in the attic but i remember last time i got it out most of the tapes didnt load up, ha do you remember having to put something on key 9 to get better music? "RUN press PLAY then any KEY"

Donkey Kong!!! How am I learning this 30 odd years too late 😀

Chase HQ on the Amstrad is a hell of a conversion

Roland on the ropes was realy good game and one of the few i'we finished completely! :-)

On my top whatever Amstrad list there would be definitely place for Commando, Xenon, Rick Dangerous, Turrican, R-Type, and Stunt Car Racer, at least from what I have tried on emulator.

Harrier Attack - check; Fruity Frank - check; Chase H.Q. - CHECK :-D Thanks for the list! :-D Got my 464 BEFORE the free games bundle was included *ahems*

Game has been loading for 20 minutes....... syntax error! Damn!!!!!!

3D star strike , way of the ex fist, renegade, shadow warriors, Rambo f b pt2 commando. My go to games not to mention mastertronic games. Rebelstar was also a fav game it was a lot like xcom. Loved it

Gryzor!