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'''Gryzor ''' was a port from the '''Arcade ''' game '''Contra ''' from '''Konami'''.

The Home Computer's home computer ports (Amstrad CPC port tooincluded) were mostly produced under licence by [[Ocean|OCEAN]], the Famous company from England famous amongst Amstrad CPC user OCEAN company from Englandfor it's good ports.

As said, '''Gryzor ''' is probably one of the best game available on Amstrad CPC, and is probably featured in every Top10 games for this standard.This is actually a "Run and Gun" style game, such as games like : Robocop, Midnight resistanceport from Konami's '''Contra'''...With vertical, horizontal Contra was often renamed from country to country and 3d (sort of) actionsystem to system for more or less obscure reasons.

It is well known Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console version was renamed '''Probotector''' in Europe, having the sprites changed from humans to robots due to censorship reasons, political authorities judged it was too violent for :--Awesome colorfoul graphics.--Nice Music.--excellent playability European children if the protagonist were humans, and fast action.--various levels and gameplayswould lead those kids to kill people in the street.

--*lack of smooth scrolling.*lack of an entire stage.*lack of certain bosses/mini-bosses In CPC owner's view it is probably the best port amongst 8 bit computers and stands up well against the other 8-lack bits in a fair comparison. It is always referenced as such by Amstrad CPC fans in the 8-bit wars. Even the [[Commodore 64|C64]] and [[MSX]] ports, two machines often judged superior to Amstrad CPC in many ways, were somewhat inferior compared to the CPC version. Unsurprisingly the MS-DOS PC version was miles behind too. == Pictures ==  {||-|[[Image:Gryzor_Run_Legs.png|left|thumb|200px|Gryzor run animation - legs - combine with body animation]]|[[Image:Gryzor_Run_Legs_Parts.png|left|thumb|200px|Gryzor run animation - legs - sprites coloured]]|[[Image:Gryzor_Run_Body.png|left|thumb|200px|Gryzor run animation - body - combine with legs animation]]|[[Image:Gryzor_Run_Body_Parts.png|left|thumb|200px|Gryzor run animation - body - sprites coloured]]|[[Image:Gryzor_Fall_Back.png|left|thumb|200px|Gryzor fall back animation]]|[[Image:Gryzor_Fall_Back_Parts.png|left|thumb|200px|Gryzor fall back animation - sprites coloured]]|[[Image:Gryzor_Level1.png|left|thumb|200px|Gryzor level 1]]|} ==Technical== The engine code is similar to [[Renegade]]. This is expected because it was written by the same programmer [[John Brandwood]]. Similarities:* Sprites are stored upside down (bottom to top)* Sprites are defined for mode 0 with pen 0 as transparent* An animation is composed of frames. Each frame is defined like Renegade, where there are one or more sprites with x,y offset and width, height. * The tile map is composed of macro tiles.* Macro tiles are 4 tiles wide.* Each tile is 4x8 mode 0 pixels stored left-to-right and top-to-bottom.* Supports 128 KB of RAM (to load the whole game at once)* Each level's data appears to define the animations, map and sprites. Differences:* Sprites are stored with pixels from left-to-right like normal. * Unlike Renegade, the sprite draw list can have multiple entries for a proper character. For example the run and shooting animation, is two separate items in the list, each with it's own animation. The legs and the body having different animations allowing the leg animation to be re-used with multiple body animations.* Level tiles appear to be shared across all levels* Macro tiles are either 8 or 7 tiles tall.* Level tiles are shared across levels.* The encoding of the map is different.* Unlike Renegade the sprites do not appear to be sorted in Y - at least not for level 0.* The animation data has an additional byte before the number of frames. This appears to be used for temporary data.* Character y origin appears to be at waist position. Level 2 player mode, where the action is inside, the left half of the screen is drawn and then the graphics for the corridor are mirrored to draw the right half. == Game map == <gallery>Image:Gryzor map.jpg</gallery> ==Video== {{YT|5stKSYNk6Z8}}

Even the *{{CPCPower|144}}*{{EnWiki}}*[[MSXhttp://contrapedia.wordpress.com/contra-conversions-cpc/ Gryzor]] or at [[Commodore 64|C64http://contrapedia.wordpress.com Contra Encyclopedia]] ports where Epic Fail compared to the sweet CPC version.