Poll: Amstrad CPC v BBC v C64 v ZX Spectrum

Which system?

  • Amstrad CPC

    Votes: 87 14.4%

  • BBC

    Votes: 74 12.2%

  • C64

    Votes: 245 40.5%

  • ZX Zpectrum

    Votes: 199 32.9%
  • Total voters
    605
I had a CPC-6128 which was brilliant for quick loading games, My mates had spectrums and C64's but I love my trusty Amstrad :)
 
Having owned CPC, C64 and a ZX, I must say I have the most affection for the CPC464. I learned BASIC programming on it, and had a 64K extra RAM Pack, Multiface II plus OCP Art Studio and Genius Mouse! The colour monitor was awesome too - no fuzzy TV picture!

To be completely honest, some games were just better suited for one of the platforms in particular. I'd find it difficult to say that any one machine was miles better than the others for games. For example, CPC was awesome for Captain Blood, Cybernoid 2, Dizzy Games and Chase HQ while the C64 was better for Last Ninja 2, Bubble Bobble, R-Type and IK+

I have fond memories of the Speccy although in honesty I did sometimes prefer the CPC versions of many games that were available on both.

BBC was fun at school... loved Repton 2 and Chuckie Egg!
 
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Neil79 said:
Anyone still have an original system at home? :)
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I still had my CPC and 400+ games up until a year and a bit ago when I just had to have a ruthless clear out. Everything still worked fine. Wish I hadn't got rid of it but emulators are good enough now. :(

Ahhh, the excitement at going to the games shop and coming home with an Ocean Games pack ("The In Crowd" etc) or the latest releases. Just don't get that feeling anymore. *sigh*
 
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Trying to remember that news agents I used to visit as a kid, it was at Hempstead Valley shopping center which is now Argos. Nothing like going in and seeing all those lovely tapes all for about £2.99. Then buying any new magazine, such joy.

It's just not the same any more, I'm not talking about nostalgia as such but can anyone of younger age really say they get excited about picking up the latest games mag? or the thrill of picking up all games in general?
 
BBC Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicro! Still got mine :-)

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Neil79 said:
Trying to remember that news agents I used to visit as a kid, it was at Hempstead Valley shopping center which is now Argos. Nothing like going in and seeing all those lovely tapes all for about £2.99. Then buying any new magazine, such joy.

It's just not the same any more, I'm not talking about nostalgia as such but can anyone of younger age really say they get excited about picking up the latest games mag? or the thrill of picking up all games in general?
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#This! I used to get a warm feeling just walking into my games shop. It had all the tapes lined up plus it had the big box Atari ST/Amiga games later that at the time were out of my price range (amiga was later for me).

I used to get really excited about the new magazine of the month aswell, some also had bits of programming you could do yourself in them too. You don't get that with magazines now because of the internet having all the info.

I had acpc 464 and a c64 after. I loved both but the cpc464 edged it. Barbarian (liked chopping my opponents head off) and the graphics on golden axe were the best on cpc 464 (and gameplay). IK+ too, there were so many.

Later came the Amiga and the jolly rogers cookbook.
 
Only ever had the CPC 464. Shame it got thrown out before I could actually finger out how to use it other than play games on it. Fond memories of waiting 10 minutes for the data to load of the tape and then find it's corrupt and have to do it all over again.

Favorites were Bomb Jack, some army game that had Chinooks that'd circle around and Roland on the Ropes. There's was also a Batman and Ghostbusters game but jesus they were hard. I don't think I got get passed the first level on Batman.
 
Neil79 said:
I ended up having a bit of a debate the other day in which system was the overall better retro home computer. So I'm putting it to you, which in your opinion would win in the home computer stakes?


For me it had to be the Amstrad CPC, it had everything I needed and a great monitor. It also had the best Dizzy soundtrack!

Moderators, any chance of a poll?
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depends what you mean by "better". I used BBC machines at college so that was the one I was most familiar with. We were expected to write our own programs in those days! The Beeb easily had the best programming environment. Typing in endless "POKE!" commands in the Speccy was not exactly fun.

Monserrat said:
BBC Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicro! Still got mine :-)

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Loved Repton 3. Completed all 24 levels I think it was in a single run through once but missed out on the competition deadline. :)
 
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I never owned a BBC micro, but it was a proper computer for the time and everything about it was done correctly, all the rest were jumped up games machines.

It still stands up today as a usable tool (as Monserrat demonstrates)
 
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