GX4000

Yeah.

Makes the GX4000 look like a buffet, you know?

[laughs]

That's interesting me- to me though, because the C64 version of Chase HQ is both shite and famously shite.

But port a game from one to the other so you can actually get... good versions of games running on it.

Because you can pick up an Amstrad now and stick on a copy of Sonic the Hedgehog, because there's, I think it's called GX Sonic, and play Sonic the Hedgehog on the GX4000 or the Amstrad CPC, or the Amstrad 464 Plus or 6128 Plus, which is pretty incredible.

So getting these types of computers into the hands of people who are willing to just have a play and mess around like we used to back in the 80s with the the rubber-keyed wonder we could start really pushing the limits of the the older hardware and getting it running ridiculous things that it was never anticipated to run and We're fixing those things that came out that were just poor.

Imagine Count Dracula 2 on the Amstrad, getting that fixed.

It's funny how the same four characters ruled the telly and the toy shop in the same year.

And the gadget is Amstrad's GX4000.

Uh, Alan Sugar showed it off in Paris in August, along with the new Plus computers, and it hit British shops in September for £99.99, about £260 now, with Burnin' Rubber in the box.

Most games were, uh, £25, and it was the first, uh, proper games console ever built in Britain.

There's so many RoboCop games that people are kind of...

And kinda to what Tribe was asking me about, like, RoboCop 1, wasn't that kind of bad? And it's like, ah, no, the NES game is fine, but, like, I'm sure none of you have ever played RoboCop 2 on the GX4000 Amstrad, right?

No.

No.

Uh, but no, because, like, the Amstrad...

So the...

It's also a CPC version of it, but the GX4000, famously terrible little console.

It's terrible in the sense that, like, the support and the time it released was way too late, but the actual software on it is great.

Now, you mentioned that you don't see that many, uh, original games on the, uh, CPC.

What ultimately put this over for me is if you tuned into the last episode of ARG Presents, uh, we played games on the GX4000, which is basically just an Amstrad stuffed into a console.

Yes.

And I played a not good shooting game.