Best Msx Games

[Fyvve]

So does anyone here use fmsx? I just sort of discovered that the msx didnt have that bad of graphics. Anyway what are some of your favorites that i should try out?


Edit: Put in some colecovision games too if there are some of those that you like

 

[LeeT]

The Gradius/Nemesis series of games are always a good start.

 

[washo]

nemesis is a very cool sery...
you can also try all the classic as frogger/pacman..they play great and are still fun

see you :lol:

 

[toxibunny]

what's the beef with this? I tried the early atari emulators, and it turned out the demos were good, but the games were mostly crappy...

i'm interested in this thread too...


edit: washo, did you know that that 'see you :lol:' signoff looks as if you're taking the piss?

 

[narmak]

Metal Gear 2 is a good one.

 

[lizard808uk]

Pennant 2 Baseball is probably one of the best 8-bit baseball games I've played. Also Konami Tennis is worth having a go at too.

@toxibunny , I think that "see you" thing is a Cowboy Bebop reference.

 

[moz]

im playing a scifi RPG called SD snatch or someyhing like that

 

[jbb]

My favorites... mostly Konami really:
- Knightmare (MSX1)
- Nemesis (indeed... especially the II, with extra sound chip)
- Penguin Adventure (MegaRom MSX1)
- VampireKiller (MegaRom MSX2) (ancestor of the Castelvania series!)
- MetalGear series (MSX1 then 2... yes, same old snake but in 2D)

All good stuff! Loved this machine, especially the MSX2 with its 256 color screenmodes and "rasterised multi color" hardware sprites! But 1Mhz Z80 though... Eeek.
JBB

 

[Winterkid]

Golvellius in the Valley of Doom. Kinda Zelda like, but the music is really good and if you don't mind passworded saves, you can contunue. Best if you have an emulator with Save states. Been playing with MEKA for WINDOWS on the PC, and it's a great emulator for Windows, which also plays Colecovision and Spectrum games. Wonder if they'd let us have the source. *Scratches head*

Also:
Wonderboy in Monster Land (Wonderboy 2)
Zillion II, the Triformation has good action
Afterburner

EDIT: For colecovision, I like:
Ladybug
Roc'n'Rope
Zaxxon
BC's Quest for Tires

 

[EvilDragon]

Golvellius in the Valley of Doom. Kinda Zelda like, but the music is really good and if you don't mind passworded saves, you can contunue. Best if you have an emulator with Save states. Been playing with MEKA for WINDOWS on the PC, and it's a great emulator for Windows, which also plays Colecovision and Spectrum games. Wonder if they'd let us have the source. *Scratches head*

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Ermm... yeah... but we're talking about MSX here, not the SMS...

 

[Winterkid]

Sorry, When I think of MSX, it conjures up SMS. My bad... But the Colecovision games still apply.

 

[Hwrd]

Penguin Adventure is a great game that is also "deluxe" compared to what exists on other formats (Antarctic Adventure on Coleco and NES).

It's kinda nice to see the early Konami games on MSX, more to appreciate what the NES was capable of more than anything else. Gradius, etc have really bad scrolling.

Even without the '83/84 videogame crash, the poor old Colecovision (MSX graphics) would not have held up with all the side scrolling competition (and I am a BIG Colecovision fan).

 

[diablo2]

galaga

 

[washo]

edit: washo, did you know that that 'see you :lol:' signoff looks as if you're taking the piss?

lol²...I dont mean that...
just look at my logo B)

@toxibunny , I think that "see you" thing is a Cowboy Bebop reference.

thanks dude

see you :lol:

 

[Dozer]

Penguin Adventure is a great game that is also "deluxe" compared to what exists on other formats (Antarctic Adventure on Coleco and NES).

It's kinda nice to see the early Konami games on MSX, more to appreciate what the NES was capable of more than anything else. Gradius, etc have really bad scrolling.

Even without the '83/84 videogame crash, the poor old Colecovision (MSX graphics) would not have held up with all the side scrolling competition (and I am a BIG Colecovision fan).

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I second pengiun adventure. Only rom I really play for msx.

 

[toxibunny]

ah... never seen cowboy bebop. I guess that explains it...


see you! :lol:

 

[guruguru]

The best MSX game ever is most likley the two Snatcher games. I like the original Snatcher most. However, that's only becouse of the unpollished feel it has, the explicit language content which only exists in that version and the choppy graphics which is a bit charming if it's compared with the later 16bit/32bit-versions for Sega Mega CD, PCE-CD and PSX/Saturn.

Secondly it's Metal Gear 2 - Solid Snake, which is the very root to what the gaming-world is so amazed about today. If anyone was talking about a total inovation when the first MGS came to the Playstation, they were wrong in therms of not knowing about that the inovation already had been there several years ago.
At the time Metal Gear 2 was released no one had ever seen anything like it, speaking of the interesting story and espionage-theme which the first Metal Gear game lacked. Much of the cunning dialogue in Metal Gear 2 can also be recognized in MGS1. Well, they'r both great works. Adorable.