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It came with the following games:
'''Into Oblivion, Vampire, The Apprentice (and I think Pipeline and maybe Rasterscanand Destructo). Later we got Con-quest, Rocky Horrow Show, RadZone & RebelStar''' - Hence why I started my contributions on those games (and some edits of existing) as those games had a huge impact. Dad threw in a couple of issues of [[Computing with the Amstrad]] and away we all went - trying to type in those 10 Liners etc. Gosh, we even typed in those checksum codes and wondered what was going on.... ha ha. Good times!We even forgot to press 'Enter' at the end of one of the lines because it got to the edge of the screen and went to next line anyway, so we started writing the next line...... arghh. I think that was 'Blitz' - from CWTA.
Man, those games kept me busy! The funny thing is, I've only recently finished some of those games! After lots of saving (using WinApe). I never seemed to be able to finish games as a kid - maybe I didn't have enough patience or probably because you couldn't 'Save' your position.
<gallery caption="First games">
Image:IO_COVER.jpg|Into Oblivion
Image:APPcover_front.jpg|The Apprentice
Image:Vampire_cover_front.jpg|Vampire
Image:SPIICoverImage.jpg|Pipeline II
</gallery>
Swapping games with kids from school was fun - Dad had it sussed out pretty quick, you could make copies (cassette tape) - so I ended up with copies of everyone else's games. Of course, never told anyone else you could do that!
* UPDATE: Games left to finish:
:: Thanks Gryzor. Glad to be a part of this.
Something else I recall too was the joysticks (reminded by reading [[User:CPM User]]s Amstrad story). The 464 came with a free shaft/suction capped bottom joystick - the thing was absolutely useless. Couldn't play games like the Apprentice where you needed precision otherwise you were dead. So it wasn't long before Dad turned up with one of those [[Konix_Speedking]]s. Wow - what a game changer that was. Amazing. Micro switches and precision, it was the best. Could actually play games properly now! (Dad wasn't going to put up with that!) Later I upgraded to a Konix Navigator [http://www.retro-kit.co.uk/page.cfm/content/[Konix-Navigator/]- ] now I just felt cool with that thing. Too bad the auto-fire didn't work on the CPC range. Oh well.{| align="left" valign="top"[[Image:KonixNavigator.jpg|center|350px]]|}
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