Back in January, Anthony Flack uploaded a video to YouTube where he revealed to the Amstrad CPC community that he is working on a remake of the classic arcade game Bomb Jack. Now he’s posted a new update which shows the first five levels being played. There’s no sound or music yet, but I remain astounded at how beautiful the backgrounds for each level look! You can watch the new video below.
Octopus
Screenshot of Octopus
Team Galaxy and CPC-POWER have just released a new game for the GX4000 and Plus machines called Octopus, and it’s an unofficial conversion of Nintendo’s Game & Watch handheld game of the same name from 1981. You’re a diver whose aim is to salvage treasure from a sunken ship and bring it back to the surface, but a large octopus is guarding the treasure and you must avoid its tentacles, otherwise it will ensnare you! You can download Octopus from CPC-POWER.
Screenshot of Jax the Dog
Someone has pointed out to me that I forgot to mention another game called Jax the Dog, which was released just before I returned from my holiday. It has been developed by CapaSoft (Sergi Caparrós) using Multi-Platform Arcade Game Designer and it’s his first game for the Amstrad CPC. Jax has to find his way home by collecting all the bones on each screen and avoiding other dogs and creatures. You can download Jax the Dog from CapaSoft’s site.
I’ve been on holiday for the last two weeks and I was unable to post any updates on this site, so this is probably old news to most of you, but NoRecess has continued working on SonicGX, and he has uploaded a couple of videos to YouTube demonstrating a stage that is inspired by the special stage from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on Sega’s Mega Drive console. It looks utterly amazing!
SonicGX special stage preview on YouTube In case you’re not convinced that the above video is actually achievable on a GX4000 or Plus machines, NoRecess has also posted a video showing the game being played on a GX4000.
Bloktris
Screenshot of Bloktris
Another game that was released while I was on holiday is Bloktris – the latest multi-format game from Under4Mhz. As the name suggests, it’s a version of Tetris. It features several different backgrounds and configurable difficulty levels, although I encountered a couple of bugs that caused some graphical glitches while playing it (I was playing version 1.00). You can download Bloktris from itch.io.
Two new games from Under4Mhz
Under4Mhz has released two more games – Mahjong and Pegged – for the Amstrad CPC and several other 8-bit computers and consoles. Mahjong is based on mahjong solitaire, and Pegged is a peg solitaire puzzle game in which you are given various layouts of pegs and must remove them one at a time until only one peg is left on the board. Both games can be downloaded from Under4Mhz’s itch.io page.
Screenshot of Mahjong
Screenshot of Pegged
Gates to Heaven
Screenshot of Gates to HeavenESP Soft have released their new platform game Gates to Heaven. One of their first releases was Gates to Hell, and more than 15 years later, its protagonist Ruperto González has returned to save humanity once again. A group of saboteurs is preventing a new company, Amsoft+, from deploying its revolutionary operating system AMSDOS+. Ruperto must explore three levels of a museum and activate a program on each of these levels to enable AMSDOS+ to be deployed.
Gates to Heaven can be downloaded from itch.io at a cost of only $1.00 (excluding VAT), and it’s well worth the money.
CPC Jewels
Following the release of Gates to Heaven, ESP Soft have now made their previous game, CPC Jewels, freely available to download. If you haven’t played it already, it’s an excellent and very colourful Columns clone, which was rated 9 out of 10 on this site.
