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.
A new contributor, David Muscat, has reviewed The Survivor by Anirog.
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
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.
Just Get 9 updated
Screenshot of Just Get 9
Stéphane Gourichon, alias cpcitor, has released “patch 3” of his tile-matching puzzle game Just Get 9, which was first released in 2021. It features several improvements, most notably variations in the music when there are fewer tiles to choose from, and a few other bugs and glitches have been corrected. You can download the updated version of Just Get 9 from itch.io, and you can even play it in your browser as well if you don’t have access to an emulator!
Osotos
Screenshot of Osotos
Japanese developer Inufuto’s latest multi-format game, Osotos, was released a few days ago. It’s a platform game in which you must collect stars and move blocks around, which serves the dual purpose of killing enemies and bridging gaps between platforms. You can download Osotos from Inufuto’s site in cassette format, or alternatively, a disc image can be obtained from CPCRulez.
Below is a 4½ minute preview video that you can also watch on YouTube, which demonstrates how awesome the game is so far. Of course, everyone wants to know when SonicGX will be released, and the answer is – when it’s ready. NoRecess has suggested a possible release by the end of 2025, but this is definitely not a strict target or deadline.
Preview of SonicGX on YouTube
Dark Knight: Shadow of Madness
Screenshot of Dark Knight: Shadow of Madness
Another game featuring Batman has been released for the Amstrad CPC – but it’s not from Ocean, or BG Games, for that matter! This one comes from Mananuk, who has already released a few games for the CPC, although it’s definitely not officially endorsed by DC Comics. It’s called Dark Knight: Shadow of Madness, and the storyline is that a group of terrorists has unleashed a virus on the city and kidnapped a team of scientists who have the capability to create an antidote. The first level features platforming action as you try to rescue the scientists, while in the second level, you have to drive a vehicle and collect ten bombs left by the terrorists, while dodging oncoming traffic.
Dark Knight: Shadow of Madness can be downloaded from itch.io, and it seems likely that physical copies will also be released by PlayOnRetro at some point.
Screenshot of Coloco
A new game called Coloco by Tuxedo Games has just been made available for downloading. It was originally released for the ZX Spectrum in 2020, and physical copies of the Amstrad CPC version could be purchased, although they have since sold out. Now all CPC fans have the opportunity to try it out!
Coloco’s gameplay is quite similar to Lunar Lander. On each of the 30 levels is a pilot who has managed to crash his rocket, and you must guide yourself through each level to rescue the pilot and return him to your starting point. It isn’t easy, as the controls are quite sensitive and you have to use your thrusters carefully to maneouvre yourself through narrow gaps and avoid crashing into walls.
I never heard any news about the physical edition of Coloco when it was released, so it’s great that it’s now available for everyone to play. You can download Coloco from Tuxedo Games’ site.
