Tag: MSX
Fabio Ritter has announced the release of his new racing game for the MSX. Endurance is a racing game heavily inspired by 1983 Activision’s Enduro for the Atari 2600, but with some nice additions that make it more interesting and fun to play. Endurance offers two game modes. On the enhanced mode, other than the original race-against-time gameplay, your car…
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…
The Metal Gear-styled stealth ’em up impresses in a new 5 minute gameplay trailer!
The Future Was 8 Bit is pleased to announce the availability of their new multi-format release, RodMan. Developed by Mika ‘Misfit’ Keranen, your objective is to guide RodMan around multi- screen maze levels, collecting pills, avoiding enemies and using bombs to eliminate the bad guys. RodMan is available the The Future Was 8-Bit in a Special Triple Cassette Edition covering…
Spanish indie developer Kai Magazine has opened pre-orders for it’s upcoming role-playing game for the MSX2, The Sorrow of Gahlan’Thur. Set in an expansive open world, players must seek out a powerful relic rumoured to belong to Gadhlan’Thur, an ancient orc king. Based on what we’ve seen in the official pre-launch trailer, the game seems to blend elements from Wonder Boy…
Assembler of Spanish coding team ASM has finally finished work on a conversion of Ghosts’n Goblins for the MSX Turbo R. Released in 1990 as successor to the MSX 2+, the machine packed in a custom 16-bit RISC CPU (R800) alongside the standard Zilog Z80, as well as 256 Kb of RAM – it would be the most powerful machine…
Back in June Nogalious was released for Windows PC. A successful Kickstarter project from 2017, Nogalious is a retro platformer, much in the style of many 8-bit video games of yesteryear. The evil Darama has kidnapped your daughter Mariet with a dark purpose that goes beyond ruling Russadir. You must cross different worlds until you reach the castle of Darama,…
Francisco Téllez de Meneses is currently working on Prisoner of War, a new game for the MSX series of computers. The game’s existence came to light at the beginning of June when Meneses posted a request for assistance in creating the game’s music over on the MSX.org forums. Having been captured and imprisoned in a high-security military facility, the player…
We just received the heads up from MisFit (Creator of Cheese and Onion & Pentagorat for the Vic-20) that a new Multi-Platform game is coming soon called RodMän. RodMän is an Arcade game which mixes ideas from Pac-Man and Bomberman. As well as some new innovative ideas too. It’s still early days but MisFit shared some screens with us, and it’s…
Just in time for the New Year, Aetherbyte Studios has released their new MSX2 game, Inferno. Inferno is a platform action game in which the player must escape the pits of hell. As you progress, you upgrade from fists to various weapons by taking them from the devilish beasties that you kill. The game consists of four large maps to…
