Ah, yes - my favourite game on the Amstrad was New Zealand Story .... that involved a little chicken-like character travelling around in a balloon.  I wasted hours of my youth playing that - not only on the Amstrad but they also had it on a machine in my local pub LOL!  I played it there while waiting for my turn at the pool table ;-)
http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/newzealandstory.htm

Quote - The Amstrad had some good games for it, the Roland series being a particular favourite. We used to get "Amstrad User" magazine every month (fortnight?), which frequently included code for games... so whereas today you would get a cover disk, they would print like half a million lines of hex code which you could enter into your machine and end up with a fairly crappy and basic game. That is, after you'd gone back through the code 48 times trying to figure out where you'd transposed "C24DR3" for "C42DR3"...

Happy days... :biggrin:

Gill