I didnt write yet about all Amstrad games released for the CPCRetroDev 2016 contest.

The Legend of Anubis by Core Studio is one of these games (arcade). It was written by Adrian Gonzalez Herrera, Mateo Bernal Montoya and Jose Roberto Martinez Gras.

You enter an old pyramide facing many dangers and traps with one goal in mind, to get an ancient relic : the mask of Anubis, the god with a chacal head, governing the land of death.

Another WIP game, Rafael Castillo started one month ago to write Baba's Palace announced on Twitter. Graphics are realy nice.

Using CPCTelera Salvador Cantero is working on Red Planet 2 for Amstrad CPC. Red Planet 1 was for another platform.

Metr81 is testing Outlaws by RetroBytes Productions. It's a shooting game like Operation Wolf or Cabal out in 2016 for the CPCRetroDev competition where it won the first place at the PRO category.

A new video by ChinnyVision on Youtube about Thrust is available. This arcade game was out on Amstrad CPC by Firebird in 1986.

He also tests it on BBC, C64, Atari XL/XE, C16 and Spectrum.

In 2012 a PC remake (written in basic : QB64) of a classic Barbarian 1987 by F.L.

Two years later, it was out for the Sega Genesis, and now for the PC Engine using the HUC C compilator !

Edward is a french youtubber whose speciality is the history of video games. His last video is about the 30 best arcade conversions on Amstrad CPC.

Well, as some games are not that good, the best 30 arcade conversions are not the 30 best games...

The 30 arcade conversions are from the bottom to the best : Final Fight, Altered Beast, Street Fighter, Outrun, le Retour du Jedi, Gemini Wing, Ghots'n'Goblins, S.T.U.N. Runner, Cabal, Gunsmoke, R-Type (no mention of the Easter Egg R-Type), Super Hang-On, Paper Boy, Double Dragon, Ghouls'n Ghosts, Chase H.Q., Bubble Bobble (without talking of BB4CPC), Xybots, Gauntlet, Operation Wolf, Commando, Arkanoid, Kung Fu Master, Prohibition (Empire City on arcade), Space Harrier, After Burner, Smash T.V., Shinobi, Ikari Warriors and Renegade.

Novabug presents his personal top 11 of Amstrad CPC games created in 2016 in a video on Youtube, over more than 75 games created this year.

So, his personal top is the following :

• Outlaws
• Dragon Attack
• Out of this world
• Defense
• Coolbox
• Imperial Mahjong
• Jewel Warehouse
• Hair Boy
• Nibiru (using 8BP)
• Magica
• Chibi Akumas (Episode 1 : Invasion!)

Personnaly the best game for 2016 is Magica, but they are other very good games too for sure.

You can also see his Top 11 of Amstrad CPC games in 2015.

He is back with us and he is working on an indie game : Odiesoft.

You will be able to get news of Georg Odenthal on :

• Father3GngIndie on Twitter
• IndieOrBust on Facebook

In his last tweet, 4Mhz posted about the trailer of El Tesoro Perdido de Cuauhtemoc which is on McKlain Youtube channel.

Amstrad CPC code written by 4Mhz, sound and FX by McKlain and graphism by SAD1942.

After the release of Pinball Dreams preview, here is something to make you thirsty for more : two new tables.

After commercial games, this time Xyphoe walks around Chibi Akumas (Episode 1 : Invasion!), a homebrew game.

Chibi Akumas (Episode 1 : Invasion!) is a shoot them up by Keith Sear (Keith56) released in 2016. and episode 2 is a work in progress.

After the part 1 of Power Drift on Amstrad CPC by Xyphoe, here is the part 2 of Power Drift.

Power Drift is a car race game by Sega, edited on Amstrad CPC by Activision in 1989.

VK007 has written lately 2 Dizzy games with the DizzyAGE engine for windows :

• Dizzy X - Journey to Russia (december 2016), which is a remake of a non official dizzy written on ZX Spectrum by Sergei Gorshkov in 1994. The downkload link is broken though
• a HD remake of Dizzy Prince of the Yolkfolk (February 2017), already a remake of a game released on mobile in 2011 (see the video above)

After the windows remake of Oh Mummy by Adolfito, here are 2 other :

• one for the Mattel video game console Intellivision by Nanochess
• PIC-Oh Mummy! for the Pico-8 by Adria Estrades : playable in a web browser
• Oh Mummy by Crozza for windows (2016)