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 […]
Name of the game: Jäästä Game size: 32KB Genre: Adventure Individuals involved: Uninteresting Here comes an adventure in the cold land of the penguins! You play the role of a penguin (of course) and your mission is to buy a present for your penguin friend Paula. Try to find enough […]
Name of the game: Dot Attack Size: 32KB RAM size requirements: 8KB Genre: Action Name of the group involved: N.O.P. Name of people involved: Maarten Loor Stephan Smetsers WLCracks Mark Verhappen Reindert Franke Any other information or related media that you’d like to share: Released at Beuningen 2020. Website address: https://nopmsx.nl […]
Greetings, dear MSX fans and friends all around the world! We, the MSXdev Team, proudly present the new edition of the longest running international MSX development contest: MSXdev’20. Now, you might wonder, “But where did MSXdev’19 go?” Well, as the slogan for this new edition reads, this is a new […]
Our jury has been working for the last month and finally we can read their words in order to get acquainted with the games participating in this year’s edition of the contest. Many thanks to them, of course, as they are an important part of the contest. The chosen ones […]
First of all, we feel it is only right to apologize for the delay in the MSXdev’18 jury announcement. We’ve been working hard to settle everything. but we must admit that time rushed on us…We, the MSXdev Team, suppose you all know the drill – sometimes real life just interferes […]
Category: MSX Freestyle Name of the game: Goal Game size / RAM size requirements for the game: about 27 Kb / 64Kb RAM Game genre: Managerial Name of the group / individuals involved: G.G.G. Soft Welcome to the world of soccer! This is Goal, a management simulator where you must […]
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 […]
Category: MSX classic Name of the game: XRacing Game Size / RAM requirements: 48KB ROM / 16KB RAM Game genre: Car racing Name of the group / individuals: Brain Games (Santi Ontañón) Having been announced last month, finally XRacing has made it before deadline and it is available for download. […]
Category MSX Freestyle Name of the project / game: Barbarian The Duel Game size / RAM size requirements for the game: MSX2/MSX2+/MSXTurboR ROM ASCII16 – 1024KBytes 128KBytes VRAM PSG or FM (SFX Samples optional with OPL4 (Moonsound or clone) Game genre: Fighting Name of the group: Bitvision Software Individuals involved: […]
Category MSX Freestyle Name of the project / game: Barbarian The Duel Game size / RAM size requirements for the game: MSX2/MSX2+/MSXTurboR ROM ASCII16 – 1024MBytes 128KBytes VRAM PSG or FM (SFX Samples optional with OPL4 (Moonsound or clone) Game genre: Fighting Name of the group: Bitvision Software Individuals involved: […]
Category: MSX classic Name of the game: XRacing Game Size / RAM requirements: 48KB ROM / 16KB RAM Game genre: Car racing Name of the group / individuals: Brain Games (Santi Ontañón) A new racing game has been announced by Santi Ontañón for MSXdev’18. By now we only have a […]
Category: MSX Classic Name of the fame: GRAVITICA Game size / RAM size requirements: 32KB ROM/16KB RAM Genre: Original (STG-like) Name of the individual involved: Yusuke Miyauchi Yusuke Miyauchi brings us an original game where we control a spaceship which has no attacking capabilities. As we travel along space, there […]
Category: MSX Freestyle Name of the game: Shoulder Blade OVERDRIVE Game size / RAM size requirements: 48KB / 128KB VRAM Requires MSX2 Game genre: Shootem’up Name of the group / individuals involved: Nobuaki Washio, GW’s-Workshop Here’s the second game for the MSX Freestyle category in this issue of MSXdev! Shoulder […]
Category: MSX Classic Name of the game: Any Treasure Day Game size / RAM size requirements for the game : 32KB ROM / 16KB RAM Game genre : Text Adventure Name of the group / individuals involved : Timmy Any Treasure Day is the 8th entry for MSXdev’18, and it […]
Category: MSX Classic Name: Bumper Ship Racing Game size / RAM size requirements for the game: 32KB ROM image, 16KB RAM Game genre: Racing, Multiplayer Name of the group / individuals involved: Uninteresting Here we have a multiplayer game for up to 4 players at the same time! Why play […]
The classic, tried and tested “Snake” game concept is still beloved by gamers of young and old age.Even MSXdev got a few visits from mister Snake.Apart from “Los Jardines de Zee Wang Zu” in MSXdev’06, the eighth issue of the MSXdev contest saw a fun little variant as well: “PWND“.Of […]
Category: MSX Classic Game size / RAM size requirements for the game: 32 KB ROM / 16 KB RAM Game genre: Puzzle Name of the group / individuals involved: Wim Dewijngaert Linez is a game based on Numberlink logic puzzles. Here, you have to connect faces of the same colours […]
Category: MSX Freestyle Min specs: MSX1 + V9990 + MSX-MUSIC Name of the game: Dreams Puzzle Game size / RAM size requirements for the game: 4096KB ROM / 16KB RAM Game genre: Puzzle Name of the group / individuals involved: Mapax Website Josephine Wall (author of the illustrations) Here we have […]
Name of the game: C.C.R. Anexo 1 El Algoritmo Category: MSX Classic Game size / RAM size requirements for the game: 32KB ROM / 16KB RAM Game genre: Adventure Name of the group / individuals involved: José Soto Gándara (joesg) This game is a graphical adventure where you play the role of a […]
Fort Apocalypse is a game released in 1982 for Atari computers and later ported to Commodore 64. The latter version is the one chosen to port to MSX, with written permission from Steve Hales, the original author. It’s a side scrolling shooot’em up where the player controls a helicopter, destroying […]
Category: MSX Classic Name of the game: Virus LQP-79 Game size / RAM size requirements for the game: 48Kb / 16Kb Game genre: Shoot’em up Name of the group: Pentacour This game is a port to MSX of Virus LQP-79 coded by Team-Arg for Arduboy.Although it’s a 48Kb ROM (not […]
Category: MSX Classic Name of the game: BUDDHAGILLIE / 佛陀斬 Game size / RAM size requirements for the game: 32Kb / 16Kb Game genre: Shoot’em up Name of the group: Nobuaki Washio, GW’s-Workshop Prince Shiddhartha made a vow, to make all sentient beings my equal without any difference The second entry […]
Category: MSX Classic Name of the game: Burn Us Game size / RAM size requirements for the game: 32Kb Game genre: Strategy/Platform Name of the group: CARAMBALAN Studios This game gives you the experience what it’s like to be a member of a weird, masochistic sect. Make your wishes come true […]
All of you were waiting for this moment, and finally it’s here: MSXdev’18! This year we celebrate the 15th anniversary of this veteran contest. And we, the MSXdev Team, are just as excited as we’re sure this time again, there’ll be great games developed for our beloved MSX platform! From […]
The time has come. The most awaited results are here, we have the winners for MSXdev’17 contest! We would like to thank all the participants in the contest, and also extend our gratitude to all the jury members for their work and of course, we highly appreciate all the supporters […]
Ladies and gentlemen, the public poll is now open to select your MSXdev’17 favourite game. Remember that according to the contest rules, only if you registered before October 5th your votes will be taken into account. You must select only one game, the one you think is the best of […]