History of video games/Platforms/Amstrad GX4000

History Launch Bring the whole arcade into your home. Tagline for the Amstrad GX4000 The Game ShowAmstrad GX4000 - The Amstrad CPC Games Console https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6OH4388uFM 20 May 2021 en The Amstrad GX4000 was launched in 1990 as a console version of the Amstrad CPC series of 8-bit computers that cost $150 at launch.Rignall Jaz Consoles You've Never Heard of: Amstrad GX4000 https://www.usgamer.net/articles/gx4000 25 October 2020 USgamer 3 January 2016 en The console was to have a 15 million British pound marketing campaign.Screen Digest Screen Digest Limited https://www.google.com/books/edition/Screen_Digest/QUrvAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Amstrad+GX4000&dq=Amstrad+GX4000&printsec=frontcover 3 December 2020 en Legacy The console did not sell well, and retailers tried to unload stock by selling the GX4000 as a price as low as $30. The console is often said to have sold about 15,000 units, though some sources give sales figures for the console as high as 150,000 units.Civera David 21 Consoles And Handhelds That Crashed And Burned https://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/611-console-handheld-fail.html 3 April 2021 Tom's Hardware January 11, 2013 enInfo on the Amstrad GX-4000 https://www.retrorgb.com/info-on-the-amstrad-gx-4000.html 3 April 2021 RetroRGB 4 November 2019 The Amstrad GX4000 was discontinued in 1991.McFerran Damien 6 games console flops that gave gaming a bad name https://www.techradar.com/news/6-games-console-flops-that-gave-gaming-a-bad-name 25 October 2020 TechRadar March 9th, 2017 en Technology thumb|The included Amstrad GX4000 power supply is very temperamental and is notorious for destroying the GX4000 when used. Compute The Amstrad GX4000 used a 8-Bit Z80A CPU clocked at 4MHz.Amstrad GX4000 - Game Console - Computing History https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/39590/Amstrad-GX4000/ www.computinghistory.org.uk 25 October 2020 The system was capable of about 0.58 million instructions per second (MIPS).Murnane Kevin From Pong To Playstation: The 40-Year Evolution Of Gaming Processing Power https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinmurnane/2016/04/25/charting-forty-years-of-power-ratings-for-video-game-consoles-and-arcade-machines/#63dfddee2472 Forbes 26 October 2020 en The GX4000 has 64 kilobytes of RAM and 16 kilobytes of video RAM.Home Page https://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/pg90-gx4000.htm#page=specs Video Game Console Library 28 October 2020Amstrad GX4000 [BINARIUM] https://binarium.de/amstrad_gx4000 binarium.de 20 November 2020 Hardware The Amstrad GX4000 uses a General Instrument AY-3-8912 chip for audio.OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=2&c=1082 www.old-computers.com 20 November 2020 Though General Instrument was once a major supplier of chips in the first consoles, the GX4000 is a notable late use of such chips, owing to it's 1980's computer heritage. The GX4000 Power Supply is among the most notorious official power supplies in any console,Feature: Your Beloved Games Console Is Slowly But Surely Dying https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/12/feature_your_beloved_games_console_is_slowly_but_surely_dying 24 April 2021 Nintendo Life 25 December 2019 as it's use typically results in the console being destroyed due to it's exceptionally poor quality. Notable games 27 cartridges were produced for the GX4000. Gallery Amstrad GX4000 Controller Internals References Amstrad GX4000 Amstrad GX4000 2100%__NOTOC__