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At the Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo, I saw an Amstrad CPC being demoed. Since then, I’ve been absolutely fascinated by this platform.

You see, we never got the Amstrad CPC in North America.

Obviously, we got the Amiga even though it was unpopular.

We also got the Sinclair Spectrum. Over here, it was known as the Timex Spectrum. Not very popular, but we got it.

So the Amstrad was a complete mystery to me.

Today, I downloaded every Amstrad game ever made. And you know what? I still find it baffling.

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Chris Trottier
Chris Trottier
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@goatsarah The Archimedes seems cool. Don’t think there were many games released for it, though.
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Ben Curthoys
Ben Curthoys
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@goatsarah Chris, you know that the Archimedes was the direct ancestor of the ARM chips in every phone now, right?
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Chris Trottier
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@goatsarah Did the Atari 8-bit not take off in the UK? It was a big thing over here.
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Alexandra Lanes
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@Sarah Brown @Chris Trottier I think you saw them in Smith’s and in computer magazines but not really anywhere else. Kind of like the Oric 1 and the Jupiter Ace.
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Ben Harris
Ben Harris
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@goatsarah I'm a weird outlier who had (and still has) both an Atari 800XL and an Archimedes. But then my family had a Camputers Lynx.
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Sesquipedality
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my uncle had a genuine Oric 1. It was ... Kind of rubbish.
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