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It could be tough being a CPC owner growing up.
Most of your mates owned Spectrums and Commodore 64s and when they weren’t telling you that their systems were superior to yours, you were very often thinking it yourself.
And how could you not? After all, I loved visiting the arcades and then playing my favourite games on my Amstrad when I got home, but the Amstrad’s arcade ports were rarely better than those on the C64 (at least, that’s how I bitterly remember it). I recall one particular trip to Luke Palmer’s house and I experienced Bubble Bobble on his Commodore 64 and it was absolutely magnificent. MAGNIFICENT! The graphics and audio were obviously nowhere near as good as the original arcade machine but compared to the rather naff version I had at home it felt like a revelation. I mean, the Amstrad version didn’t even have music and here’s the C64 version effortlessly playing a brilliant rendition of the bouncy arcade tune – it’s enough to make you sick.