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Help Wally, a blue-collar worker who’s employed at a car factory, assemble cars.
Let’s get ready to rumble with this classic MSX1 arcade game by Robosoft.
An old school mini game for 1 human player. Fight against 9 ZILOXX enemies. How many times in a row can you intercept the HUGE energy matrix blocks?
The classic Mine Sweeper for MSX is called Mine Finder. From Brazil,, Paolo enters de dev22 compo with this MSX1 entry.
The game Mix is a tribute to the original game called Qix, by Taito 1981. A classic-style MSX title by Uninteresting.
This is the second game submitted by ToriHino under the Robosoft Inc flag. A true MSX arcade title that’ll test your nerves.
Tank vs Echinoderms, they’re Extinct For a Reason
Cryptogram is a letter arrangement game where the main goal is to form the right words out of given letters
randomly arranged into a crossword-style grid.
Get the detergent out and take care of the dirty laundry. Collect dirty clothes while avoiding creeps that run free.
When aliens invade your space, what do you do? Exactly, you take out your biggest cannon and blast those invaders to smithereens first, and ask questions later.
From France we have the first MSX2 game in this years free-style contest. This game is aimed at children to help them discover the computer keyboard and reflect on the different actions to be taken to reach the next stage.
Word-up! It’s the MSX version of the popular online game Wordle. Guess the five letter word in six tries in this multi language puzzle game.
A classic-style MSX1 arcade game, yet in the style of King’s Valley, in which you will traverse platforms and collect items.
Name of the game: Bloody Mary Game size: 16KB RAM size requirements: 8KB Genre: Action Name of the individual involved: Programmer: Lady DarkBite (Tábata Galvez Angelo). Father and programming instructor: Danilo Angelo. We like parents that teach their children how to use a computer, but we really love when parents […]
Name of the game: Find It ! Game size: 16KB RAM size requirements: 8KB Genre: Puzzle Name of the individual involved: Fabf Find It ! is puzzle game based in a game called Where is it made by Ricco59. The aim of the game is to find a certain pattern of […]
Name of the game: Pacific Game size: 16KB RAM size requirements: 16KB Genre: Shoot-’em-up Names of the individuals involved: André Baptista One of this year’s early entries, “Subcommander” took us to war in the depths of the ocean. This entry takes us in the opposite vertical direction, lifting us high […]
A fresh platformer with an unusually morbid plot and setting for the genre has been stirring up the retrogame development scene for quite a while now. The name of the culprit is “l’Abbaye des Morts”, which translates to “The Abbey of The Dead”. This quite special kind of platforming adventure, […]
Name of the game: Witch Day Game size: 392KB RAM size requirements: 16KB Game genre: Adventure Individuals involved: Main program: José Soto Gándara (joesg) Testing and translation: Daniel González Witch Day is an adventure that reminds Zelda and other games. Saying that, we play the role of old lady named Anabel that comes […]
Name of the game: SPC Super HOOPS Game size: 32KB RAM size requirements: 16KB Game genre: Sports / Arcade Name of the group / individuals involved: Hakogame It’s showtime! Time for playing a basketball-like game before times runs out. There is a power bar at the bottom of the screen where a […]
Name of the game: BlockPuzzle Game size: 32KB RAM size requirements: 16KB Game genre: Casual puzzle Individuals involved: David “turbor” Heremans Puzzles, a good way to spend our spare time playing with our MSX computer. Here we have a new one that pretends to be casual but also give a good moments of entertainment. The […]
Name of the game: Relevo’s Snowboarding Size: 48KB RAM size requirements: 8KB Genre: Sports / Racing Name of the group involved: Relevo Here we have it – the eleventh entry for MSXdev’20 while we are approaching the deadline for contest entries, at the end of this month. The veteran developers […]
Name of the game: Raftoid Game size: Working to be finally 16KB RAM size requirements: 16KB Genre: Brick Breaker (heavily inspired by Arkanoid) Individuals involved: Raúl Portales (Platty Soft) with some help from bitsofbas The era and time of this story is mostly unknown. After contact was lost with the mother […]
Name of the game: Cuncuna Game size: 16KB RAM size requirements: 16KB Genre: Arcade License: Freeware Individuals involved: Christian Córdova Hey kids, remember The Very Hungry Caterpillar? Well, now we actually get to play one, in a Snake-inspired (yes, the eating one, but not the one eating in the jungle) […]
Name of the game: Stupid Martians Game size: 64KB RAM size requirements: 16KB Genre: Shoot’em up (a bit bullet hell) Name of the individuals involved: Code and graphics: Visualedu Music: Bitcaffe Betatesters: Antxiko and Pablibiris Right after The Menace from Triton gave us some fresh shoot’em up action to chew […]
Name of the game: The Menace from Triton Game size: 48KB RAM size requirements: 16KB Genre: Space shooter Name of the individuals involved: Santiago Ontañón (Brain Games) One could argue that for the recent years, an edition of MSXdev isn’t complete without contributions from certain long time contenders such as […]
Name of the game: Litter Box Game size: 16KB RAM size requirements: 16KB Genre: Maze License: Freeware Individuals involved: RAY2DAY MSX SOFTWARE According to a popular theory, cats are really plotting to take over the world. And arguably, that could be for the best. It’s not a far stretch to […]
Name of the game: Landing Game size: 16KB RAM size requirements: 8KB Genre: Action License: Freeware Individuals involved: Z80 Epoch Cats are awesome and beautiful! So how can we not be enthusiastic about a new entry to the contest featuring one of those furry feline friends? In this game, our […]
Name of the game: Yazzie MSX Remastered Game size: 32KB RAM size requirements: 16KB Genre: Puzzle Platformer Individuals involved: Retro Souls & FRS Here comes a new challenger! Yazzie MSX Remastered, and as the label “MSX Remastered” says, this is a totally rebuilt game made from the original Yazzie, which […]
Name of the game: Subcommander Game size: 32KB (ROM version) Requirements for ROM version: MSX1 with 16Kb RAM Requirements for Disk version: MSX1 with 64Kb RAM Genre: Shoot’em up Individuals involved: Zoran Majcenić Control a well-armed military submarine ready to sink as much enemy ships as you can before time […]
Category: MSX Classic Name of the project / game: Quartet Game size / RAM size requirements for the game: 32Kb / 8Kb RAM Game genre: Action Puzzle Name of the group / individuals involved: Ilkke & bitsofbas Here comes a new challenger! The name is Quartet, and it’s a puzzle […]
Category: MSX Classic Name of the project / game: PWND3 – Full Metal Snake Twitch Edition Game size / RAM size requirements for the game: 16Kb / 8Kb RAM Game genre: Puzzle Name of the group / individuals involved: Metal Soft The snake returns! After paying a visit to the […]