On the Amstrad, we've got games, galore, we'll play forevermore. Ah, the Amstrad CPC. That was my arcade haul of the 1980s. These were the golden days for me. I love the bright vivid colour scheme of the Amstrad CPC. Ocean software, Elite, US Gold all use the Amstrad screenshots on the back of their games. This video, however, will focus on the games that everybody's forgotten about. True gems that hardly ever get a mention. Games I sunk hundreds of hours into.  And there was lots of originality and innovation. Right then, here we go. Now this one is a bit like looking at Madonna in 2023. So it helps if you squint a lot. I'm not suggesting for a second that Rocketball is ugly. I was talking about Madonna underneath the undergrowth. So in other words, graphics aside, is an early horizontal take on speedball waiting to get out. The ball gets fired from a cannon and then you have to go after it, send bodies flying all whilst trying to score in the opponent's goal. It's a terrific game and there's lots of skill levels as well. And you can deliver devastating damage. We used to play it all the time as kids and this one is definitely a forgotten title. And you know what? It's great fun. The only thing missing is ice cream. So Star Glider isn't a forgotten game on the 16 bits, but it's a forgotten game on the Amstrad CPC. And that bit is one of life's mysteries because it's up there with the likes of Elite. I've heard some muppets say that it's one of the worst games ever, but for me it's fast, the action is frantic and the same challenge that you get on the 16 bit titles is offered up here. Yes, it's slower than the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST, but let's not forget we're talking about a Z80 CPU. Sadly the music and the speech didn't survive the 16 bit translation, but 100% everything else has been crammed right up to the rafters. Here's one that hardly ever gets a mention and I'm guilty of this as well. Everybody agrees that Laser Squad is the daddy, but on the Amstrad CPC this is the mummy which makes Julian Gollup its creator, God. Now there's only one level to play on, but you have to think back and remember that this was only £1.99. It personally took me a couple of weeks of practice to actually beat this game, so back in the day that was money well spent and I have to say it's one of the Amstrad's better titles and I kid you not miles ahead of some full price games. It's one I often reach for when I've got some time to burn and it never disappoints. At least once a week at work I'm lucky enough to be able to visit the local driving range and I always think about this game I spent hours playing leaderboard. Now it must be said I must be clear I'm rubbish at the real thing, but on the Amstrad CPC I won tournaments. Now I'm not going to lie to you I did prefer this on the Commodore 64 and that's mostly down to the graphics and the fact that there's a bug on the Amstrad CPC version where every now and again you can't put on the green but luckily over the years I worked out how to play around it. It doesn't hurt the game, it's more of a smudge and for me personally it's one of the best if not the best golf game ever. Hardly ever get to mention I remember reading a review in Amstrad Action and I went out the same day and bought it and I've never looked back it's a fantastic game a really good challenge you've got to map it otherwise you'll just end up going around in circles and for a while I actually did but today I know it like the back of my hand and I love to jump in play it because there's more to it than meets the eye you've got to find keys you've got to pick up objects, upgrades and escape what is essentially a maze if you've never played it invest the time give it a go I promise you you'll really like it once you get into it I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is probably one of the best 8-bit games ever of all time but nobody's ever played it it's tricky at first but once you get your head around things I know it doesn't look it but it's a thing of beauty I've not played it on the other 8-bits only ever on the Amstrad and it's better than the original Towsetti I doubt I'm going to convince anyone in 2023 to go back and play this but those that did play it will know exactly where I'm coming from fingers crossed I'm not the only one and I kid you not Academy is a force to be reckoned with I've had fun revisiting an old stomping ground now this one has absolutely everything it's a game for everyone you can jump straight in and straight out and my goodness the flying sections as some of the fastest I've ever experienced on an 8-bit I put absolute hours hours into this game especially wandering around the underground complex we had no right to expect a game of this quality on an 8-bit but the creator Paul Wokes who sadly died in 2017 pulled it off and the impression this game left on me on my young mind just can't be put into words a dimension above the rest now Defender is probably one of my favourite arcade games of all time no question and Guardian 2 on the Amstrad CPC is every bit as exciting every bit as fun and the quality conversion is there for everybody to see the Amstrad CPC in its early life had some fantastic arcade conversions a lot of them were clones but they played identical to the arcade original and if you've never played the arcade conversion of Donkey Kong from Ocean Software you're missing out you need to go and track that down now and play it easily the best of the 8-bits some aren't going to like this but for me as good as if not better than Arkanoid and yes another one that's been massively forgotten on the Amstrad it's also easier to get into than Arkanoid the initial learning curve is not as steep but don't get me wrong I love Arkanoid I also love Impact that type of game that I can't get enough of and I really like the challenge so for me this one is not just a forgotten game on the Amstrad CPC it's also a forgotten classic if you've never played it it's definitely worth adding it to your collection a good old game workshop Space Crusade in fact I was talking about this this very game the other day at work unbelievable memories and it's another game where I've never met another living soul that's ever played it on the Amstrad now the graphics on these types of games are never going to bowl anybody over and the sound effects aren't worth diddly but my goodness this is up there with Laser Squad and the RTS game Vulcan once you get into this game trust me you will not be able to put it down well I hope you've enjoyed this video if you did please like, subscribe and leave a comment until next time bye


So yeah, exciting. DeSantis has published an economic plan, or at least something that looks a little bit like an economic plan. DeSantis released its 10-point declaration of economic independence policy platform. So we now have a policy platform from DeSantis. I mean, I read this.  It's so frigging depressing. And the dominance, just the dominance of Donald Trump and Donald Trump's attitude and Donald Trump's presentation is just so overwhelming that, you know, you read a DeSantis economic plan and it's just hashed over Donald Trump.  So this is declaration of economic independence. This is how it starts out. And just put this in Donald Trump's voice and this is Donald Trump, right? America is in a state of decline, militarily, culturally and economically. People across our nation are collapsing under an economy that no longer works for the American family. Americans have been saddled with persistently high prices and weak economic growth. American families have seen the quality of life and economic security diminish while our national debt has exploded and our country loses, loses to Communist China. Our policies can no longer be driven by the ruling class. It's time to name names and defeat those people and institutions that have formed the root cause of this economic melee and a family-focused economic economy means having the courage to take on our enemies. Enemies. We are no longer going to kowtow to who? Who are the villains in the story? Who's the villains in the story? We are no longer going to kowtow to Wall Street and be corporations who don't have your interest front and center. We are no longer going to sell out to China at the expense of the American working family. The American dream is slipping away from our nation's middle class, federal government policy. The bottom half of American households are less wealthy today than in 1989, where the top 10% have added 29 trillion in wealth over the same period. So let's do, this is Bernie Sanders. But, you know, bottom line is, bottom line is, first of all, this is just wrong.  I've often documented here that that's not true. Yes, economy is growing slowly, but you know, just compare us to the economies of Europe and sea. You know, so to start off with such darkness and Malay and just, it's just so Donald Trump, you know, carnage in the streets of America in 2016, when, in January 2017, when he was inaugurated, when crime rates in America were at the lowest they'd been maybe ever, but certainly since the 1950s. Mass illegal immigration has undercut American jobs and wages, the rule of law and our wider social fabric. So the problem is always the other, the immigrants, they're the problem. It's China and immigrants. I mean, this is straight out of 2016 playbook by Donald Trump straight out of it. And yet he doesn't have the, what is it, the charisma, the something, right? Okay, so, you know, he goes on and on and on in multicultural multinational corporations, especially in sectors such as tech, have been a massive, have seen a massive surge in wealth while selling out assets and outsourcing an industrial base to China. Lies, lies, lies. I mean, this is it. You need to create enemies. You need to create people you're going to crush. Who are those people? Three. It's the same three as Trump, China, illegal immigrants, immigrants more broadly and elites, Wall Street multinational corporations and the elites. Those are the three enemies that Donald Trump defined in 2016. And this is now the defining characteristic of the Republican Party, not freedom, not liberty, but crushing the enemy, China, immigrants, elites. And elites, of course, include, right? So what is, what is he going to do to combat this? What are you going to, you know, what is he going to do to combat this? Oh, first, we seek, he says, we will declare our economic independence from who we are going to make ourselves independent from the failed elites that have orchestrated America's decline. Indeed, but those are the elites that have actually created the wealth. I mean, the slow economic growth, but at least something. I mean, if you take out those elites, what economic growth does America have? What wealth creation is there in America?  So, so we're going to declare independence from failed elites. And then we're going to declare independence from federal spending that has inflated prices and plunged our nation to the brink of insolvency. This sounds great. This sounds great, but a plan, some plan, how are we going to cut spending? Are we going to cut, are we going to reform Social Security, Medicare, anything? Who else are we going to declare economic independence? From the Chinese Communist Party that has run circles around us for a generation. Yeah. From central planners who seek to advance the political agenda at the expensive standard of living out of American Americans. Oh, I really hope that is true. That would be fantastic if he actually meant it. From a class of progressive corporations looking out for every interest except for that of the American people. Okay, so we're going to fight our own corporations. We're going to go after American corporations. Because we don't like their politics. Because we don't like their politics. This is America, not China, DeSantis.  Number one, the number one, so he has 10 items here of what he's going to do. The number one item is taking back control of economy from China and restoring economic sovereignty. What does that even mean? What does that even mean? We have an abusive relationship with the CCP. Oh, here he goes, reverse our ever increasing trade deficit. But there's nothing wrong with trade deficits. I've explained that a million times. Probably have to explain it a million more. And I won't convince anybody, or at least not a lot of people, ban inputs of goods made from all this stuff. Okay, let's see. Demand that American companies act in accordance with American interests. Which means preventing companies from sharing critical technologies with China. That's actually what Biden has done. And banning the safe strategic assets like farmland. Farmland is a strategic asset. How is farmland a strategic asset? If farmland is a strategic asset, then everything is a strategic asset. Incentivize the reparations of U.S. capital from China. Right. And then he wants to achieving 3% growth by incentivizing investment, eliminating bureaucracy and red tape and keeping taxes low. Achieving 3%. Wow. How cool is that? So he's promising this typical tax and regulatory reform. He's going to, you know, do away with the job crippling ideological regulations. He is going to eliminate the fourth branch of government. Eliminate it? Eliminate it? I'd like to see that. I'd like specifics. Eliminate the fourth branch of government is the regulatory agencies. He's going to get rid of them. All right. This is one section where it's pretty good. It's pretty standard Republican stuff, but it's pretty good. All right. Unleashing America energy dependence. Another one that's good. Ending environmental, social and governance standards of political engineering by large investors.  Oh, will not tolerate the World Corporation using ESG as an end around for the constitutional system. ESG is a voluntary thing. President of the United States and the federal government have no say in whether a company uses ESG or not. This is fascism. Restoring merit and respect for individuals. There's a central criteria for economic advancement. This is, yeah, root out DEI. I mean, the scientists will instruct the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. Why not just get rid of the Civil Rights Division? ESG is voluntary. There's lots of pressure, but it's voluntary. There's no, God, anyway. Okay. Reigning in the Federal Reserve. A point of Chairman of the Federal Reserve who will focus on maintaining a stable dollar instead of political pressure of the day. Isn't that what every Federal Reserve Chairman says he will do? He's against a digital currency. I'll give him that. That's good. That's good. Opposing bailouts and holding bad economic actors responsible. Yeah, but who are the bailouts? Does this include everybody? Oh, and he's going to protect cryptocurrencies. That's good. And finally, fighting reckless. Oh, this is perfect. This is exact. Instead, this should be number one, but broader. But this is number 10. Fighting reckless and wasteful federal spending. Is anybody in the world, any politician out there, for reckless and wasteful federal spending? Is anybody out there who's a politician not have this on their economic agenda?  I mean, one of the items, I mean, that's really important in terms of spending is, you know, getting rid of DEI and federal contracting. That's not going to save any money. It's just lip service. It's just sticking something in there and then sticking DEI in there because that's what he really cares about are the social issues. So yeah, there's a lot of good stuff here, you know, about as good as you'd expect from any Republican candidate. My guess is that every single Republican candidate out there has an economic policy. There's nothing extraordinary here. There's nothing unusual here except for one thing. And that is it sets up enemies and it's all about defeating enemies. It's not about a positive political program. The whole setup is a Donald Trump. Here's the enemy and we're going to crush the enemy. It even says, you know, even we win they lose. That is the title, the title of his economic policy. This is an run the scientist.com we win they lose, which is a complete zero sum game BS. Again, Donald Trump make America mega kind of superficial nonsense. You know, it's it's it's exactly how Donald Trump won in 2016. The Santas is trying to mimic him but be more, I guess, intellectual about it more responsible about it. Let's see what happens. I don't think I don't think the census is a chance because if you're going to if you won Donald Trump, vote for Donald Trump. Why would you vote for the Santas? I mean, I was Donald Trump's in jail, but he says he's going to run even from jail. So we might have a president governing from jail. But you know, if you want Donald Trump, vote for Donald Trump. That's what I think people are going to. But but if you if you want these kind of policies, why would you vote for Ron DeSantis? What is differentiating? Now, granted, we'll see how other Republican candidates try to differentiate if they can. But this is such a negative message. It's just disappointing. I really thought at the beginning, right? When when when we were just looking at DeSantis and he was going to be potentially he was he was going to be running. I really thought that there was a chance that there was a chance that he would be better in some fundamental sense, right? That he would focus on some positive issues and focus really on economic issues. And yeah, he's he doesn't have a chance.  He's not good in debates. I don't think he's going to be good in debates.  The real question is going to be, can anybody in the rest of the field, Scott or Nikki Haley stand out as a non run DeSantis alternative to Donald Trump? Can I mean, a lot of the money is focusing now on Scott. So a lot of the GOP billion billionaires of a banding DeSantis don't want Trump and they're going for for Scott. Now, whether Scott is is going to rise to the occasion or just play his cards to try to get a VP slot. I don't know, but but it would be great to have anybody but Trump or DeSantis at this point. It would be great to have anybody but those two as the as the standard bear of the Republican Party.


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