14th April 2012
John Beckett has reviewed one game:

• Country Cottages

7th April 2012
Missas is back and has reviewed three games:

• BB4CPC
• Edge Grinder
• R-Type (Easter Egg)

John Beckett has reviewed two games:

• Charly Diams
• 1942

There is also some sad news. After twelve years, the CPC Game Reviews guestbook is no more, as Lycos has retired its HTML Gear service. At the moment, I have no plans to reintroduce a guestbook, as very few people were signing it. However, I have archived most of the entries, although all the private entries have been lost.

It has been fascinating for me to browse them and see what visitors have written about the site over the years, and I would like to thank everyone who has signed the guestbook.

25th March 2012
TFM of the FutureSoft team has posted a preview of their role-playing game Gerelakos on YouTube. It's been in development for six years, and it'll be a long time before it's finished, but it looks very impressive indeed already. The game runs on the FutureOS operating system and will require a CPC6128 or 6128 Plus.

If you want to follow the progress of this game, you can visit the Gerelakos web site. You can also see what people are saying about the game on the CPCWiki forum.

24th March 2012
John Beckett has reviewed five games:

• Andy Capp
• Atahualpa
• Bride of Frankenstein
• Hunchback: The Adventure
• Jumpman

19th March 2012
John Beckett has reviewed two games:

• Great Gurianos
• Street Hawk

18th March 2012
John Beckett has reviewed two games:

• Throne of Fire
• Tokyo Gang

César Nicolas González released a new version of BB4CPC recently, which corrects a few bugs. You can download it from CNGSoft's web site.

11th March 2012
John Beckett has reviewed two games:

• Animated Strip Poker
• Troglo

9th March 2012
After a hiatus of nearly eight years, John Beckett (who previously contributed reviews to this site under the pseudonym Ninja Wonderboy) has reviewed six games:

• The Ice Temple
• Oink!
• Roland Goes Square Bashing
• Roland on the Run
• A View to a Kill
• The Vikings

11th February 2012
Following on from CNGSoft's remake of Bubble Bobble, the Easter Egg team has released its remake of R-Type. The original Amstrad CPC version of R-Type certainly didn't show what the CPC was capable of; there was no music, and the graphics were ported straight from the Spectrum version – and it certainly showed! Apparently the programmer, Keith Goodyer, only had 21 days to convert the game to the CPC, so he didn't have an opportunity to enhance it.

However, in April 2010, a group of CPC fans decided to do just that. After managing to obtain the source code of the Spectrum version from the programmer, Bob Pape, Easter Egg – consisting of Fano, TotO and iXien – set about improving the game. They've added an intro sequence and full-colour graphics, and converted the arcade soundtrack as well. The original game is also very difficult indeed, so to make things a little easier, Easter Egg has also included a 'casual' mode which allows you to change the starting level and restart from where you previously lost a life. I certainly welcome this feature; I never even managed to complete the first level of the original CPC version without cheating!

The only disadvantage of all of these new features is that the remake requires 128K of memory (the original CPC version runs in 64K of memory), but that's only a very minor point. Easter Egg's remake is a huge improvement on the original, and they should be congratulated for it! They've also created an official site, from where you can download the remake and obtain extra information.

Also, for the first time in nearly a year, I have reviewed some games! They are:

• Assault on Port Stanley
• Astro Plumber
• Atlantis (Anirog)