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Pac-Mania (Grandslam)
We like Pac-Man here at Retro Gamer, but we’re also no enemies of progress – and Pac-Man has definitely been improved upon…
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MSX home computer standard
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MSX2Cas: Your Phone Is Now an MSX Cassette Deck
MSX2Cas turned an Android phone into a cassette deck for real MSX hardware — converting CAS tape images to audio and feeding them through the headphone jack, no datasette required.
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Life on Mars: The Metroid-Style MSX2 Adventure the Homebrew Scene Built
Just before Christmas 2015, Kai Magazine Software released Life on Mars for MSX2 — a Metroid-inspired exploration adventure on physical cartridge that became a calling card for the modern MSX scene.
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GGMSX: The Adapter That Runs MSX Cartridges on a Game Gear
Announced in 2015, the GGMSX adapter set out to play MSX1 cartridges on a Sega Game Gear — a piece of scene hardware made possible by a shared family tree between the two machines.
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Xak: The Tower of Gazzel — The Fan Translation That Opened Microcabin’s RPG Vault
In 2014, fans translated Xak: The Tower of Gazzel into English — unlocking a chapter of Microcabin’s Ys-inspired MSX2 RPG saga that Japanese players had kept to themselves since 1991.