MSX home computer standard
SD Snatcher (1990) reimagines Hideo Kojima’s Snatcher as a chibi-styled RPG for MSX2, complete with SCC soundtrack and one of the strangest cartridges Konami ever shipped. Our review.
Konami’s Penguin Adventure (1986) sent Penta the penguin racing across a whole planet to save his princess — a huge, warm-hearted MSX epic, and Hideo Kojima’s first game credit. Our review.
The MSX2 got its own Castlevania in 1986: Vampire Killer, a parallel take on Simon Belmont’s first hunt with a more open, key-hunting structure. Our review of the road not taken.
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (1990) never left Japan in its era — and it is one of the finest games on the MSX2, the bridge between the 8-bit original and Metal Gear Solid. Our review.
Before the NES port, before Solid Snake was a household name, Hideo Kojima’s Metal Gear debuted on MSX2 in 1987 — and the stealth genre began here. Our review of the original.
One standard, dozens of makers, four continents: the complete story of the MSX — Kazuhiko Nishi’s universal computer, Konami’s cartridge kingdom, the birthplace of Metal Gear, and the homebrew scene that never stopped.
Ask a room of retro fans to picture Atari homebrew and most will conjure a chunky 2600 cartridge, a one-button joystick and a programmer coaxing miracles…
Spain’s Kai Magazine Software spent the late 2010s finishing The Sorrow of Gadhlan Thur, a full-scale action RPG for MSX2 sold on real cartridge — proof that the MSX homebrew scene doesn’t do small.
Some homebrew announcements vanish quietly. A handful of screenshots appear, a release window gets mentioned, excitement builds for a week, and then nothing…
Popping bubbles is fun. It’s fun when you have a sheet of used bubble wrap to play with, it’s fun in the…