40 years of MSX. Happy birthday!
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Crossroads. an experiment with a bit of a cartoonier style, the bright colours of the MSX 2 palette seemed suited for it... She might take up a bit too much memory for a real MSX...
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Xak: The Art of the Visual Stage
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Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished / Ys: The Vanished Omens / The Ancient Land of Ys (MSX) (1987)
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Sanyo Wavy 35 (PHC-35) MSX2+
The Wavy 35 (PHC-35J) is an MSX2+ computer released (1988) on the Japanese market by Sanyo. It's the only MSX2+ model that doesn't include a disk drive and built-in MSX-MUSIC (Yamaha YM2413). It is therefore quite compact in design and has had fewer failures (the built-in disk drive was one of the most common components to fail on most 8-16 bit machines)
It was developed in cooperation with the Japan Management Association (JMA) to promote the use of computers in schools, public administration, and commercial enterprises.
Sanyo models have one of the best keyboards available amongst all MSX 2+ machines.
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The Madou Monogatari Super Ultimate Collected Works including Puyo Puyo has arrived! So I would like to share a few of my thoughts with it!
I have ordered this amazing collection a while back for my birthday and boy was it expensive (The initial price was 250 CAD ish and with 40 cad of shipping and 50 cad of import, so around 350$!)
So… WAS IT WORTH IT?????? Well, I did enjoy what the package offered! 42 games, a bunch of restored art, manuals and comics, plenty of music included in the game collection and a separate music CD. It’s a really neat collection for Compile fans
My only lil gripe is how when I opened the package, the cover of the chain booklet was a little dirty, but the content itself is perfectly fine though!
As for installing the collection itself, the process was very simple (I just clicked the big install button) and you don’t need to have the DVD inserted at all times to access the collection!
Emulation is also very straight forward! The PC98 and MSX2 emulators allow you to switch drives very easily for multi disk games for example!
In the folder where the collection is installed, you can also easily access all the soundtracks that are included in the music section in the collection.
I go over the physical items in the collection in this video you can click right there (sorry for the poor camera and commentary, I am not that great at being youtuber or just expressing my thoughts in real time)
I will try to make another video that slightly goes over some of the content of the collection if I have the time and energy…
Anyway, back to peak…
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D.O. holiday lineup magazine ad.
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Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Metal Gear was a hit in Japan, and its NES port reached international players in Europe and North America, but the people behind it hadn’t heard much of that success. They turned their attentions to cyberpunk and detective work with the ambitious visual novel adventure, Snatcher. It wasn’t until a chance encounter with a fellow Konami employee in the Famicom division on the train ride home that Hideo Kojima learned of a sequel being done without his team’s involvement, titled Snake’s Revenge. His colleague encouraged the director to make something more official, from the original source. By the end of the ride, Kojima had a story in mind, one drawing on the Cold War, nuclear proliferation, and humans’ dependency on fossil fuels. After a conversation with higher ups the next day, work began on Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. While it was eventually released in July 1990 on the MSX2, the game took the rough draft found in Metal Gear and improved on it in just about every way.
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Snatcher - MSX Magazine, 1988 issue 11
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SCARY DRAGON!! for @atlantisladymystery ! her lair looks a bit cramped... at least the princess finds it roomy.
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