Category: MSX

Jäästä – a graphical text adventure is the second entry for MSXdev’20

Jäästä is a graphical text-based adventure for the MSX1 where you play a penguin and your objective is to buy a “hatching day” gift to your friend Paula. In order to do that, you need money you don’t have. There is where your adventure begins. The premise is simple and the game is short but well-executed. I’ve played the whole…

Dot Attack – First MSXdev’20 game sets the contest bar high

Dot Attack is the very first contestant for the 2020 edition of MSXDev. Released at Beuningen 2020, the game developed by the group N.O.P is a colourful gunfight two-player game where the cowboys duel. Only the fastest will survive! The duel doesn’t end with a simple fast draw because cactuses and other elements can be on your way preventing you…

Who Dares Wins MSX2 remake available for free and we review it

Who Dares Wins for MSX2, a remake of the ’86 game  Who Dares Wins 2 by Alligata, was launched in 2017 as a physical copy. If you haven’t had the chance to purchase or simply don’t have a real machine, you can now download the game for free. Retroforce has announced the great news at the 56th Barcelona MSX meeting, which…

MSX now can play all ZX Spectrum Arcade Game Designer games!

I believe everybody, even outside of the ZX Spectrum community, knows about Jonathan Cauldwell’s Arcade Game Designer (AGD), a game engine that lets you create professional-looking games for the Speccy and Amstrad CPC. Not long ago the Dragon and CoCo community were blessed by a converter tool that helped to bring nothing less than 219 games made with AGD to…

MSX game The 4 Masters of Melody gets boxed cartridge version

The 4 Masters of Melody, the first game created by the Clube MSX magazine, is getting a well-deserved cartridge release. The launch will happen on December 7 and 8, at the MSX SP 2019, an event for MSX enthusiasts in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The boxed version of the game brings small graphic enhancements, a printed manual (Portuguese and English) all…

MSXDev’20 ‘A New Era’ – New edition of the long-lasting MSX development contest is announced with big changes!

MSXDev’20 could be defined by the first sentence of its rules page: “No expansions of any kind, just a first-generation MSX as it was conceived.”. With this statement, the MSXDev organizers are starting a new era (therefore the new motto) in the life of the contest, where there will be only one category and the games should be limited to…

Uchūsen Gamma, a new “shoot’em up” coming to the MSX

Uchūsen Gamma is a vertical shoot’em to be released on November 29th, 2019. It has been developed by Juan J. Martinez (code, graphics and sound), known from previous releases for other 8-bit systems such as The Dawn of Kernel (Amstrad CPC), Rescuing Orc (Commodore 64) or Magica (Amstrad CPC), and the most recent Night Knight single-screen platformer for the MSX….

Retro gaming ensures its presence at Brazil Game Show 2019, and ViTNO was there to witness!

This year, my annual trip to Brazil coincided with the time when the biggest game show in Latin America takes place: Brazil Game Show. This year’s edition had more than 300,000 people walking the aisles, checking the 400 booths featuring giant players like YouTube, Facebook Games, Epic Games, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, and many others. Although I like and play games…

Clube MSX Magazine Issue #6 is out!

The Portuguese-speaking Clube MSX Magazine has released its latest issue, the number 6. The 40-page full-color issue brings lots of content and, as usual, some gifts for the readers. Reviews: The Awakening (MSX2) Los Amores de Brunilda (MSX2, MSX2+ e Turbo-R) The Sorrow of Gadhlan’ Thur (MSX2, MSX2+ e Turbo-R) First part of an article talking about audio expansions for…

Clube MSX Magazine starts a crowdfunding campaign for a Collector Edition of its first issue

It starts today (August 24th) the crowdfunding campaign for the reprint of the first issue of Clube MSX. With a pledge of R$ 40,00 (USD 10), readers in Brazil will get the magazine with shipping included. Other rewards include an exclusive Clube MSX t-shirt and mug. The magazine will feature a Collector Edition holographic stamp on the cover and also…