Brick Rick


Screenshot of Brick Rick
Screenshot of Brick Rick
Juan José Martínez has just released Brick Rick – a platform game that plays very similarly to one of his previous releases, Magica (which has been reviewed on this site and was rated 8 out of 10). Rick is working on a building site that is being invaded by aliens, and he has to get rid of them by hurling bricks at them and stunning them. There are 50 levels and each level has a time limit of 60 seconds.

You can download Brick Rick from Juan’s site, and as with Juan’s previous Amstrad CPC games, you can order a physical copy from poly.play, which is expected to ship in early November 2020.

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Another conversion of Tetris


Screenshot of Tetris (Crazy Piri)
Screenshot of Tetris (Crazy Piri)
Almost as soon as 40Crisis released his Game Boy Tetris emulator for the CPC, Crazy Piri released their own conversion of Tetris! Unlike 40Crisis’ version, it’s not an emulator, but it is clearly strongly influenced by the Game Boy version and uses the same graphics, although it includes a different set of tunes and sound effects. You can download it from Crazy Piri’s site.

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Missas has returned with a review of CPC Soccer.

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GB Tetris Emulator


Screenshot of GB Tetris Emulator
Screenshot of GB Tetris Emulator (Plus version)
There are plenty of versions of Tetris available for the Amstrad CPC. The official release by Mirrorsoft was mediocre at best, but many other unofficial versions were released into the public domain or published as listings in magazines. But did you ever think that you could play the Game Boy version of Tetris on your CPC? Well now you can! 40Crisis has released GB Tetris Emulator, which emulates the Game Boy version reasonably accurately. There are some minor issues with the sound – although the famous Korobeiniki theme tune that everyone outside Russia associates with Tetris is faithfully reproduced – and the missile launching sequence if you achieve a particularly high score, but it still plays just like the Tetris that so many Game Boy owners loved.

GB Tetris Emulator will only work if you have 128KB of RAM, and if you own a Plus machine, you can emulate the Game Boy palette, as you can see in the screenshot on the right. You can download the emulator from the CPCWiki forum, but for obvious reasons, with Nintendo being very litigious when it comes to emulation, it doesn’t include the ROM files for the game itself; you’ll have to hunt for those yourself and then insert them into the included disc image file using a tool such as ManageDSK.

CPC Soccer


CPC Soccer Community Edition has been released. You can download it at itch.io. Don’t forget that you can also buy a physical copy of CPC Soccer International Edition from Bitmap Soft.

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CPC Soccer


Bitmap Soft has just released a new game called CPC Soccer. It’s been programmed by Israel Roman Alvarez, and it’s basically an Amstrad CPC conversion of Sensible Soccer – a very fast-pased game that is widely considered to be one of the best football games of the 16-bit era. Retro Video Gamer has written a review (which also includes lots of screenshots), and Xyphoe played it on one of his YouTube streams last night, which you can watch below:

Xyphoe's preview of CPC Soccer on YouTube

CPC Soccer plays much faster and more smoothly than any other football game I can think of on the CPC, and it looks very exciting. You can order a copy from Bitmap Soft for £10.00 excluding shipping, and Israel plans to release a free digital version in the future.

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I have reviewed six games:


At this point, I would like to plug Yellow Belly’s YouTube channel. Yellow Belly has been streaming most Sunday evenings starting from 19:30 or 20:00 BST, and in each stream, he plays a few relatively little known Amstrad CPC games beginning with a particular letter of the alphabet, hoping to find one or more “hidden gems”. Last Sunday, he played Oriental Games and I admitted I had never played it before, so he suggested that I review it – so that’s what I’ve done! If you’re into Amstrad CPC gaming then I suggest you join him on Sunday evenings and watch his streams.

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I have reviewed Space Moves.

Retrobytes Productions released Space Moves towards the end of last week, and you can now download the game from the NVG archive. It is a great game, although the first part (which is very similar to Army Moves) is very difficult. Hopefully a review of the game will be uploaded this weekend. If you find the game too difficult, I’ve written a type-in listing that you can use to make the game a bit easier (well, a lot easier, actually).

Deva Drifter


Screenshot of Deva Drifter
Screenshot of Deva Drifter
Albertoven has released a new game called Deva Drifter. It’s a top-down racing game, similar to Super Sprint and The Oliver Twins’ Grand Prix Simulator games. There are no opponents, though; you’re racing on your own against the clock. Unlike other such games, the author has concentrated on simulating realistic physics, and you can drift the car around corners.

Deva Drifter is the third part of the Hidden History Saga; the first part, Vector Vaults, was highly acclaimed (and was rated 9 out of 10 on this site), and Deva Drifter is also great fun to play, although the track and scenery graphics are very basic. You can download a free version from Albertoven’s site that contains five tracks, and a deluxe digital version with additional tracks is available for €3.90 – but if you want a physical copy of the game, it will cost an eye-watering €69! I don’t see many CPC fans buying copies at that price, however good the game may be.

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