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Platform – adventure game Qwak on the Commodore was coded by Oziphantom and released in 2017. This is a port of you guessed it – Qwak, originally released in 1989 by coder Jamie Woodhouse on the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, as part of Superior / Acornsoft’s, “Play It Again Sam” 10 game pack compilation.
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February 16th, 2019 
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IMPERIAL MAHJONG – Amstrad CPC game review
February 16th, 2019 CPC4EVA Most 8-bit developers these days are out there releasing as many ‘shoot em ups’ and platformers as they can. Not the Amstrad CPC guys from Cargosoft, they take their time developing games, creating games that aren’t based on populist themes, so much time in fact has gone into their game development that since 2009 they […]
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Tags: #amstradcpc, #mahjong, 8bit, GAMES, gaming, retrogaming 
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AMSTRAD CPC #1 GAME ????
January 12th, 2019 CPC4EVA For the past two years, Neil Reive, an administrator of Facebook group, Amstrad CPC CLASSIC GAMING & DEMO’s, has researched every Amstrad CPC / Plus game that has ever been reviewed in magazines from back in the day and come up with an aggregated rating of those games. With this data, he compiled a TOP […]
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#8BITANNUALDEV Contest Winners
January 3rd, 2019 CPC4EVA In 2018, as part of the 2019, 8-BIT Annual book, which is going to a kickstarter campaign soon, I held a no restrictions, 8-BIT game development contest on social media websites – Facebook and Twitter, called #8BITANNUALDEV.
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The Arcade Game Designer Interviews #1: Douglas Bagnall
November 2nd, 2017 CPC4EVA Arcade Game Designer (or AGD), created by Jonathan Cauldwell, is a programming tool for coding games on 8-bit computers, specifically the Sinclair Spectrum and Amstrad CPC computers. It allows anyone with or without coding experience to learn how to code and create a game on these early 8-bit computing systems. I have been fortunate enough to […]
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Posted in Arcade, News, ZX Spectrum Tags: #gamedev, #indiedev, #retrodev, #sinclair spectrum, 8bit, homebrew, programming, retro, retro gaming, ZX81 No Comments »
Karatian Retrospective
October 29th, 2017 CPC4EVA Beyond the great hill and to the north, there was once a great man who guarded the five belts. You have to fight against your friends and the lurking evils to get these belts. Only then will you be able to leave this land where strange creatures dwell.
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Posted in Amstrad Tags: 8bit, amstrad, amstrad CPC, barbarian, CPC, ik+, retro gaming, VIDEO GAMES No Comments »
2016 – A Monster Year for New Amstrad CPC Games
December 30th, 2016 CPC4EVA What a year 2016 has been for new Amstrad CPC game releases. A poll being conducted on the Facebook group page Amstrad Classic Gaming and Demos provides an estimated figure that there has been a whopping 73 individual games created and developed for the Amstrad 8-bit computer this year. That’s finished games, game demos, unfinished […]
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Review – Spy vs Spy for Amstrad CPC
November 6th, 2016 CPC4EVA Superman, Spiderman, Batman. Comic book legends and serious heroes that you can count on to save the day…. Well thanks to Mad magazine, they created a comic strip that has become legend for quite the opposite reason and its popularity is huge. The Spy vs. Spy concept is simple. For those not in the know, […]
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Review – Burger Time for Amstrad CPC
November 4th, 2016 CPC4EVA I don’t know much about the background of this game, but judging from what I observed I’d say this game was developed at one of those Amstrad CPC demo parties of yesteryear. 1995 to be exact, where the coders ZAK, ZIK and Rainbird of Futures group probably had a pig out session on junk food […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: 2d, Big Mac, Burger Time, flying sauce, McDonald's, Pepsi, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, scrolling shooter, shoot-em up No Comments »
Preview – Pinball Dreams for Amstrad CPC
November 1st, 2016 CPC4EVA Over 24 years ago, March 1992, Pinball Dreams was released by 21st Century Entertainment on the 16-bit Amiga home computer, receiving high praise and critical acclaim from magazine reviews across Europe. In almost every magazine, the overall ratings for Pinball Dreams were around 80% or higher. The Swedish magazine, Datormagazin (cover dated March 1992), awarded […]
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