Konami's Metal Gear 2 is surely one of the highlights in MSX gaming. However, people often complain about the speed, which would be too slow when compared to Metal Gear 1.
Last weekend D4 Enterprise have launched a new version of their retro gaming website Amusement Center. The most noticeable differences with the previous website are the addition of an English section and support for Paypal.
Another tad of news from our MSX discussion boards: the English magazine RetroGamer have once again published an article on the MSX computer system.
Readers of our active forums could have known for quite a little while already that CEZ Game Studios have decided to call it a day.
Sadly, the financial crisis is also seriously affecting game publishers around the world. Last month, Jaleco Holding sold its game department to the online gaming company Game Yarou.
Xevious gets a remake in Playstation Home (PS3). This game was once released for MSX2 by Namco, in 1988.
Nemesis Online 0.26f
The Nemesis Online project by Kotai keeps progressing. It's a remake of the nemesis series using modern graphics, yet still having that retro style. Meanwhile we're facing version 0.26f already, containing a stage full with megabosses (including the big bird!).
Bargain 6.70
A new version of Bargain has been released.
The 4Kb version of the game 'Intruder' from Arturo Ragozini (ARTRAG) and Daniel Vik (dvik) has won the annual Mini Game Competition. Out of ten entries submitted for various computer systems like Commodore, VIC-20, NES, ZX Spectrum and the Fairchild Channel F, the MSX entry was voted the winner! Another moment of MSX glory, congratulations Arturo and Daniel!
(look under Results 4K)
It's the first of the month, another amazing edition of MSXdev'08 has just closed and so we sit back to enjoy new games and look back on the software that has downloaded the most from the MRC downloads database during the past month.