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Penguin Attack for Amstrad CPC by Pat Morita Team for the CPCRetroDev 2022 contest

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Penguin Attack by Pat Morita Team (who whon the CPCRetroDev 2021) is a vertical shooter game, first I thought about a Penguin Adventure remake but no. Graphics are kawai. The game is available for download as tape and disk.

A longer video is available here.



Abyssal for Amstrad CPC by Cabbage_corp for the CPCRetroDev 2022 contest

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Abyssal by Cabbage_corp is a horizontal shooter, enter your bathyscaph and enter into the pacific ocean to battle its creatures. The game is already available for download as tape, disk and snapshot.



Be Witched or be Dead for Amstrad CPC by Hinamam for the CPCRetroDev 2022 contest

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Be Witched or be Dead by Hinamam is a two player game inside platforms where you must use spells to weaken your opponent and the beat him. But magic is sometimes capricious and all what you want could not happen like you wish. The game is already available for download as tape, disk and snapshot.



The Wormhole for Amstrad CPC by Zilog Games for the CPCRetroDev 2022 contest

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Zilog Games is working on their Amstrad CPC game The Wormhole for the CPCRetroDev 2022 contest.

It's a platform game. Don't hesitate to go check their Twitter account or their blog on Itch.IO, notably for their nice introduction of the game.



ST-NICCC 2000 DOS Port by Scali and FreddyV

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The STNICCC2000 demo by Oxygene is a classic on Atari ST, which was ported on many other machines. In 2022 it now works on any PC with msdos, even on a 8088/8086, but a 80286 is preferred for a reasonable speed.

You can see the demo running on an Amstrad PC 3086 (video by FreddyV, see below) or the official video of the Revision 2022.



The 20 Best Amstrad Games Released After The Amstrad demise by Old Style Gaming

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Here is a video by Old Style Gaming in coopération with Xyphoe on the 20 best Amstrad CPC games released after the CPC demise.



ùCPM issue 2, a french Amstrad CPC paper zine by Titi

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You can download the second issue of the Amstrad CPC ùCPM fanzine.

It was created with an Amstrad CPC 6128 with colour screen and gotek drive, with the Micro Design+ software. Illustrations were done with the VIDI digitalizer.




Future Knight DX, a remake by John32b for windows

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Seen on AUA, Future Knight DX by John32B is of course a remake of Future Knight, a platform game released in 1986 by Gremlin Graphics Software.

This version is an adaptation from the Amstrad CPC game, and is different than his first remake which design level was done from scratch.