Amstrad GX4000 better than Super Cassettevision and PC Engine

[idrougge]

When I grew up, every friend that I know of who had a chance to play Amstrad GX4000 in my home as a child, all ways complained about the parents buying them an Epoch Super Cassettevision or NEC PC Engine.

Don't get me wrong I played PC Engine plenty of times at their houses, but I never thought that the NEC was better.

Yes it was harder to find games, but untill I got older I never knew it was hard to find them, because my folks bought many GX4000 games.

Everygame that you could think of being great for the PC Engine, the Amstrad had something greater in my opinion and many of my friends, who owned PC Engines or Cassettevisions, thought the same.

They couldn't stop playing these games
Burning Rubber
Robocop
Robocop 2
Barbarian
Klax
Pang
Operation Thunderbolt
Crazy Cars 2
Plotting (Flipull)
Robocop 2 (This beats Adventure Island in my book)
Navy Seals
Tintin on the Moon
Wild Streets
Panza Kick Boxing
Fire And Forget
Super Pinball Magic
Enforcer
Chase H.Q. 2
Gazza II
World of Sports
Pro Tennis Tour
Klax (best out of NEC & 7800 versions)
Copter 271
Batman the Movie
No Exit
Mystical
Skeet Shoot
Switchblade (best 8 bit platformer game) (yes even better than P.C. Kid)
Tennis Cup 2
Tintin on the Moon
and many others

Theres a lot more but anyway you US guys do not give justice to the Amstrad GX4000 it is by far a great console and I have said this from day one 1990.

Is there anybody else in the US that feels that the GX4000 was the 8 bit system you played more?


The GX4000 also had the best light phazer games:
Enforcer
Skeet Shoot (even better than Duck Hunt)

[Kitsune Sniper]

sup iggy :p

I don't think America got this system at all, and if they did, it was in a very limited fashion...

[Bojay1997]

only in PAL territories. As the owner of one, however, I disagree with your points about the games being comparable to the PC Engine. It is basically just an Amstrad computer without the keyboard or expandability. Some of the games play ok, but by 1990 standards, they were really mediocre. I have a total of 17 games for the system and I can't say that any of them are very impressive. I also think it's weird that they chose a faded looking red/orange for their labels and packaging. It looks really old and not advanced like the system itself.

[Superman]

I was getting excited about the GX4000. I thought it was something that I hadn't heard of and possibly passed up because of it.

Then I found out it wasn't released in the US. :(

[idrougge]

Man, the GX4000 can't win here.

[CosmicMonkey]

I didn't even know there were that many games for the system. I remember seeing the review of Switchblade in Mean Machines but that's about it.

Is there actually any sort of scene for the GX4000? Any home brew or anything, or is it too crap?

[bangtango]

Nice try. Didn't Panza Kick Boxing come out on PC Engine?

[idrougge]

Is there actually any sort of scene for the GX4000? Any home brew or anything, or is it too crap?

Since the GX4000 is just a console version of a CPC464+, no. There is quite a lot of CPC development though, and a little demo scene. But if you've got a computer that is exactly the same as the GX4000, it is bound to be used as both a development and playing platform, with little incentive to spend time and money on burning your games into cartridges.

[Sweater Fish Deluxe]

When I grew up, every friend that I know of who had a chance to play Epoch Super Cassettevision in my padded cell as a child, all ways complained about the parents buying them an Amstrad GX4000 or NEC PC Engine.

Don't get me wrong I played GX4000 plenty of times at their houses, but I never thought that the Amstrad was better.

Yes it was harder to find games, but untill I got older I never knew it was hard to find them, because my psychiatrists bought many Super Cassettevision games.

Everygame that you could think of being great for the GX4000, the Super Cassettevision had something greater in my opinion and many of my friends, who owned PC Engines or GX4000s, thought the same.

They couldn't stop playing these games
Astro Wars (beats Astro Wars II)
Astro Wars II: Battle in Galaxy (beats Astro Wars 1)
Super Golf
Super Mahjong
Super Baseball
Punch Boy (best child abuse simulator out of GX4000 and PC Engine)
Elevator Fight
Lupin the 3rd (Dennis Moore! Dennis Moore!)
Nebula
Wheely Racer
Boulder Dash
Miner 2049'er
Super Soccer (how'd this Super title slip away form the others?)
Comic Circus
Milky Princess
Pop 'n' Chase (much better than either Pop'n'Twinbee or Lock'n'Chase)
Nekketsu Kung Fu Road
Star Speeder
Ton Ton Ball
Shogi Nyuumon
Doraemon
BASIC Nyuumon (better than BASIC on PC Engine or GX4000, that's for sure)
Dragon Slayer
Ranto Puroresu
Wai Wai Monster Land
Dragonball: Dragon Daihikkyou
Mappy
Sky Kid
Pole Position II
and one other

Theres aanother one but anyway you US guys do not give justice to the Epoch Super Cassettevision it is by far a great console and I have said this from day one 1984.

Is there anybody else in the US that feels that the Super Cassettevision was the 8 bit system you played more?


The Super Cassettevision also had the best light phazer games:
...actually, Super Cassettevision didn't have any light phazer games, but if it did I'm sure they would have been better than Duck Hunt

[retroman]

No we never had it here in the states.

[blue lander]

Switchblade is one of the most tedious platformers I've ever played. Plus you can only enable sound effects or music, not both at the same time.

I'm guessing this is a joke post, just like the GX4000 was a joke of a console. As far as I know the Super Cassette Vision was only released in Japan and France by Yeno. The graphics aren't as good as the GX4000, but it's also 5 or 6 years older technology. Most of the games are far more fun, too.