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Best Amstrad CPC Games

This is the list of the best games for Amstrad CPC currently available on GamesNostalgia. All packed with the correct emulator. If you don't see the game you are looking for, feel free to contact us and ask.

Prince of Persia

Prince of Persia is a fantasy cinematic 2D platformer originally developed and published by Brøderbund and designed by Jordan Mechner. It was initially released in 1989 for the Apple II.

Year: 1990 Genre: Platformer

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Tau Ceti: The Lost Star Colony

Tau Ceti is a mix of action, adventure, and space simulation initially developed for the ZX Spectrum by Pete Cooke in 1985. The game was also ported to Atari ST, C64, and MS-DOS. A...

Year: 1986 Genre: Action

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Boulder Dash

Boulder Dash is a popular strategy/maze game initially created by Peter Liepa and Chris Gray for Atari 8-bit and released by First Star Software in 1984. The game was ported to sev...

Year: 1984 Genre: Arcade

arcade boulder dash variants maze puzzle-solving

Head Over Heels

Head Over Heels is an isometric action platformer game created by Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond and published by Ocean Software. Originally released on Commodore 64 and other 8-bi...

Year: 1989 Genre: Action

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Spindizzy

Spindizzy is a puzzle arcade game released by Electric Dreams Software in 1986 for 8-bit platforms. The game was designed and programmed by Paul Shirley, who developed it for the A...

Year: 1986 Genre: Puzzler

isometric rolling ball split-screen

Shinobi

Shinobi is an arcade game created by SEGA in 1987, ported almost immediately to the Master System and later to many other platforms. In the game, you control a ninja ("shinobi" mea...

Year: 1988 Genre: Beat-'em-up

arcade coin-op conversion fighting martial arts ninja side-scrolling

The Chessmaster 2000

The Chessmaster 2000 is the first title in the popular Chessmaster series created by The Software Toolworks. The game, developed initially for MS-DOS, was released in 1986 for PC, Amiga, Commodore 64, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, and MSX.

Year: 1986 Genre: Strategy

board game chess hotseat isometric

Knight Tyme

Knight Tyme is a graphic adventure published by Mastertronic in 1986 for 8-bit platforms, initially from the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, later for Commdore 64 and MSX. The game wa...

Year: 1986 Genre: Adventure

2d fantasy flip-screen graphic adventure puzzle-solving science fiction zx spectrum

Karateka

Karateka is a martial arts fighting game and the first title created by the famous designer Jordan Mechner, author of Prince of Persia. Karateka was developed by Mechner for the Apple II and published in 1984 by Brøderbund.

Year: 1985 Genre: Beat-'em-up

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Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior

Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior (Death Sword in the United States) is a one or two players fighting game developed by Palace Software and initially released for Commodore 64 in 1987.

Year: 1988 Genre: Beat-'em-up

2 players competitive fantasy fighting hack and slash sword and sorcery versus