The 38-year review: Amstrad CPC 6128

Fired or hired? David Crookes explains that Lord Sugar’s Amstrad CPC 6128 is still a sweet buy.

SCORE PRICE Around $250 (if you can find one) Night after night for a few weeks in the late 1980s, I would gaze longingly at a photograph in a copy of Smash Hits magazine. To see this object of my desire, I needed to flick past numerous images of Debbie Gibson, Madonna and Kylie, but there was so much to take in and admire. For starters, there was a sleek-looking computer with a built-in 3in disk drive, a sturdy-looking joystick and a collection of 17 games with familiar names such as Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit. There was a colour TV monitor and a clock/radio, all sitting upon a smart desk. Lying in a bed in a room bereft of entertainment, it felt like the stuff of dreams. At the time,…

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