“The spiritual sequel for the Maze of Galious”.
Modern-day MSX2 title Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons is getting a Steam release, it has been confirmed.
Developed by UnEpic Games, it’s pitched as a “spiritual sequel for the Maze of Galious” and was released on MSX2 hardware in physical form a while back.
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Scheduled to arrive April 11th in Japan.
The MSX2 version of Dragon Slayer IV: The Drasle Family is heading to the Nintendo Switch as part of D4 Enterprise’s EGGCONSOLE series of retro reissues, which is comprised of games originally released for classic Japanese computers (thanks 4Gamer!).
It is scheduled to arrive on April 11th in Japan and is expected to land on international storefronts shortly after (with Japanese text) if other EGGCONSOLE releases are anything to go by.
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“Make both kaiju cooperate to help themselves”.
Indie studio Paxanga Soft has released a new MSX game for free, and it stars Godzilla and Gamera – two of the most famous kaiju.
“Help Godzilla and Gamera to escape the evil Dr. Shorizawa’s trap,” says the Godzilla Balls official page. “Make both kaiju cooperate to help themselves. Retrieve all the balls and be free (and big, very big!) again!!”
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‘The MSX Hardware Catalogue’ is out in Japan on February 26th.
A new book called The MSX Hardware Catalogue is set to be released later this month in Japan, covering all 134 models of the MSX computer. This includes products from companies like National, Panasonic, and Sony, to name just a few (thanks GameWatch!)
In case you’re unaware and need a quick recap, the MSX was a home computer architecture, which was first released back in 1983. It aimed to create a unified set of standards for various home computing systems at the time and was eventually adopted by several Japanese manufacturers who built and released their own MSX home computers to take advantage of the platform.
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Telenet Japan’s 1987 MSX title has been translated into English.
While Atlus is the video game company that is most often associated with Megami Tensei today, it’s important to note it wasn’t the first to try and adapt Aya Nishitani’s Digital Devil Story novels into an interactive medium.
That honour instead belongs to the company Telenet Japan who, in 1987, beat Atlus to the punch by releasing its own game titled Digital Devil Monogatari: Megami Tensei for Japanese home computers.
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So far, it has released three games on the platform with more to come.
Over the last few months, D4 Enterprise has been releasing a bunch of classic PC-88 games on Nintendo Switch across multiple regions as part of its EGG Console label, and it is now asking Japanese players what other titles they would like to see on the platform.
As noticed by Gosokkyu, it published a link to a Google form earlier today on Twitter asking players to list the name of the game and platform they’d like to see, as well as their reasons for wanting it reissued and any memories they may have about the title.
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The MSX is finally finding its ways to the Open Source world. First with many games, then with a few shy hardware projects, and now with this massively important endeavor that, if successful, can help reshape the landscape of game design for the platform.
An action RPG that you can play as many times as you like because the game is never the same twice. Good luck challenging the dungeon because the map change every time you play it!
Promised for the end of this year, Tri-Nauts is just one of the Physical Dreams’ projects in full power towards completion, and it is looking – and sounding – awesome.
