Mighty Street Fighter


The GGP team has now revealed that their latest game, Mighty Street Fighter, will be available for downloading from the 22nd December 2024 – but it will require 512KB of RAM! This means that you will need a hardware device such as the M4 board or the ULiFAC to play it on a real Amstrad CPC once it is released; more details of compatible configurations are available from the relevant page on itch.io. If you want to play it on an emulator, you’ll need to use one that can be configured to provide at least 512KB of RAM.

GGP released a trailer on YouTube a few months ago, but if you haven’t seen it yet, you can watch it below.

Preview of Mighty Street Fighter on YouTube

I have reviewed three games:

Croco Folie &28


Screenshot of Croco Folie &28
Screenshot of Croco Folie &28
Ayor61 continues to churn out games with the help of Multi-Platform Arcade Game Designer. Croco Folie &28 has been released in the 40th anniversary year of the Amstrad CPC (the &28 in the title represents 40 in hexadecimal). The plot of the game is that Miss X, a member of staff at the now long defunct French magazine Amstrad Cent Pour Cent, loaded a cassette into her CPC464, but the cassette contained a virus that has infected the machine and damaged its Z80 processor, so she has called upon her crocodile friend Croco to shrink himself and recover the eight parts of the Z80 so Miss X can use her CPC464 again.

Croco Folie &28 is a platform game featuring a gorgeous and very colourful title screen from SA and music from American CPC fan Manshovel. You can download it from GameJolt.

Monster Mayhem


Screenshot of Monster Mayhem
Screenshot of Monster Mayhem
Mananuk released a new game called Monster Mayhem just before Halloween. The small town of Kismet in Texas has been invaded by monsters, and you must shoot them and prevent them from overwhelming the town. This is a target shooting game in which the monsters’ heads appear from windows and you must aim your crosshairs at them quickly. You must also avoid shooting hostages who will appear occasionally. Your gun holds a maximum of six bullets, so you’ll also need to reload frequently, and this makes the game increasingly frantic and challenging as you progress. Monster Mayhem can be downloaded from itch.io.

Ghostship Delgado


Title screen of part 1 of Ghostship Delgado
Title screen of part 1 of Ghostship Delgado
Tony Kingsmill has released a new text adventure called Ghostship Delgado. Tony ran a public domain library called Data PD from 1990 to 1992 and he also wrote several text adventures for Data PD and The Guild. In Ghostship Delgado, you are George Pike, and you have rented a yacht and are on holiday. You fall asleep on board your yacht, but when you wake, you find yourself on a deserted ship, along with your dog Ruffles, far out to sea – but how did you get there, and can you find your way back to your yacht?

Ghostship Delgado comes in two parts and it has been written using The Quill. You can download the game and instruction manual from itch.io for free, and for only $2.00, you can download additional material, including clue sheets and the source code.

Mine Escape


Screenshot of Mine Escape
Screenshot of Mine Escape
CapaSoft (Sergi Caparrós) released a new game a couple of days ago called Mine Escape. CapaSoft was responsible for the platform game Jax the Dog that was released last year. In Mine Escape, you play an experienced miner, but the elevator that takes you from the mine to the surface has broken down, and unless you find all the parts to fix the elevator, you’re going to be stuck in the mine forever! Most of the parts are behind locked doors, and you will need to find the corresponding coloured key to open them. The mine is also full of creatures such as bats, ghosts and spiders, which you must avoid. Mine Escape can be downloaded from itch.io.

Nita (Mode 0 version)


Screenshot of Nita (Mode 0 version)
Screenshot of Nita (Mode 0 version)
haThus Entertainment has released an updated version of Nita – one of the entries in last year’s #CPCRetroDev contest. It was one of the more popular entries, finishing in fourth place overall and winning the “most popular game” award, as chosen by the public (i.e. Amstrad CPC fans). The original version featured detailed Mode 1 graphics, but the graphics in the updated version are in the CPC’s more colourful Mode 0. Both versions can be downloaded from itch.io.

You can also purchase a physical copy of Nita on cassette from Matranet for €8.75, excluding shipping costs.

Midnight Streets


Screenshot of Midnight Streets
Screenshot of Midnight Streets
Ayor61 of GGP has released another platform game. This one is called Midnight Streets, and like some of his previous games, it has been developed using Multi-Platform Arcade Game Designer. The game’s protagonist, Mike, was due to meet his girlfriend Sandra at a nightclub – but a Mafia gang has abducted her and told Mike to pay a ransom of $100,000 to release her. There’s no way Mike is going to give in to the gang’s demand, so he must find the gang and use force to rescue his beloved Sandra!

Midnight Streets features an intro sequence with several digitised screens, as well as nice in-game graphics by the GGP team and tunes from Mr Lou and Manshovel. You can download it from GameJolt.

I have reviewed two recently released games:


A new contributor, David Muscat, has reviewed The Survivor by Anirog.

SuperLéo


Screenshot of SuperLéo
Screenshot of SuperLéo
Pakal33 has released a little game called SuperLéo. Pakal33 has recently rediscovered the Amstrad CPC, and he has reprogrammed a couple of his early BASIC games in a combination of C and assembly language – one of which is SuperLéo. You are Léo the lion, and you must escape from a zoo and avoid being caught by the boss who is running behind you! You must also avoid the various traps that will slow you down and enable the boss to catch up with you. SuperLéo can be downloaded from itch.io.

Léon Marchand’s Olympic Challenge


Screenshot of Léon Marchand's Olympic Challenge
Screenshot of Léon Marchand's Olympic Challenge
In the 2024 Olympics in Paris, French swimmer Léon Marchand won four gold medals and one bronze medal – the most of any competitor at the event. His haul of medals helped France to finish fifth in the overall medal table. Now Praline and Team Galaxy have released a new game called Léon Marchand’s Olympic Challenge in honour of his achievements at the Olympics. It is not officially endorsed by the man himself or by the International Olympic Committee!

The game is presumably inspired by Ocean’s 1988 release Daley Thompson’s Olympic Challenge, as it involves a lot of joystick waggling, or hammering the cursor keys frantically on your keyboard if you don’t have a joystick! You can play a single event or compete in all four of the Olympic events in which Léon won gold medals – the 200m breaststroke, 200m butterfly, 200m medley and 400m medley. You can go here to download Léon Marchand’s Olympic Challenge, although the game requires 128KB of RAM.