MSXdev22 #23 Penguin Catcher

 

Title: Penguin Catcher
Genre: Arcade
Author(s): _NetNomad
Medium: DSK 720KB
Hardware requirements: MSX1, 16KB RAM, FDD, MSX-Music

 

Hey kids, remember those crane machines at locations such as fairs, arcades and amusement parks? Oh yeah, they would drain your pocket money like there’s no tomorrow. Ever imagined what it would be like to be able to unlimitedly try your hand at catching as many cute stuffed animals as you desire? Well, in that case, developer _NetNomad has good news for you, as he issued Penguin Catcher, which pretty much recreates the thrill and feel of said machines.

In line with the traditional penguin-obsession of MSX fans and developers alike, again it’s exactly this type of bird that will claim its place in the spotlights. However, in this case, they’re much like teddy bears. Use your reflexes to reel in as many of those cute stuffed penguins as you can. How we can ever fit all of those in our hobby chamber or even bunk? That’s an issue to take care of, later.

Source: MSXdev22

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Google anuncia el cierre de Stadia

¿Qué pasa ahora con el servicio de juegos en la nube?

  

Google acaba de anunciar el cierre de Stadia. El servicio de juegos en la nube del gigante de Mountain View, que competía con Xbox Cloud Gaming de Microsoft, GeForce NOW de NVIDIA, entre otros, llega a su fin tres años después de su lanzamiento inicial, aunque la compañía promete que la tecnología subyacente seguirá viva.

Fuente: XATAKA

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MSXdev22 #22 Shadow Of The Pig

  

Title: Shadow Of The Pig
Genre: Action, Platform
Author(s): thegeps
Medium: ROM 32KB
Hardware requirements: MSX1, 16KB RAM

 

Hailing from Italy, MSX enthusiast and developer thegeps comes with a fresh offering to the ever-expanding MSXdev game library. In Shadow Of The Pig, we’ll get to perform the role of a pig that’s in quite the pickle, for his shadow has been replaced by that of a beast by an evil witch.

In order to lift that curse, our hero, Farty Pig, is required to best treacherous plains littered with prickly, but also deadly cacti.
Fortunately, he can propel himself quite high into the sky with the power of his gastrointestinal emissions. Does that sound confusing? Well, we’re only trying to put this politely. Let’s just say, this pig’s command over his bowel movements and their resulting air pressure will be a great help in avoiding to get stung by any of those cumbersome cacti.

…Allright, let’s just be frank – you can jump with farts, and even pull off a limited amount of double farted jumps with that.

With the current hubbub over farm animals emissing too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, this particular pig doesn’t seem to care a lot about that. At least he has the decency to wear pants, so it must be a pig of culture, anyway. We, the MSXdev Team, find this a commendable treat and recommend that you aid Farty Pig in his quest to regain his… well, not humanity per se, but you probably know what we mean.

Source: MSXdev22

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Don Quixote -ZX Spectrum16K-

 by ZOSYA

  

De vez en cuando, el afamado equipo de ZOSYA, nos soprenden con algún trabajo "menor" en 16k para el Spectrum, como ya hicieron con Lava 16k.

Ahora le llega el turno, dentro de este sello 16k, a Don Quixote la adaptación de la famosa obra de Miguel de Cervantes.

  

Para portar al ordenador británico tan magno libro, no han optado por una aventura de texto como, en su día, hiciera Dinamic, si no por una aventura de plataformas con un estilo minimalista para aprovechar al máximo los exiguos 16k.

Además, el juego se encuentra disponible en descarga gratuita aquí.

Fuente: ZOSYA

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MSXdev22 #21 Bounce Mania

  

Title: Bounce Mania
Genre: Puzzle
Author(s): Zett Darkstone
Medium: DSK 720KB
Hardware requirements: MSX1, FDD, KUN BASIC

 

Manouvre a bouncing ball through the maze in Darkstone’s MSX1 game called Bounce Mania.

The MSX system has a good set of simple but addictive games in its portfolio. You know, the ones you have fun with for an hour or two without complexity like drawing maps, keeping track of items, and so on; just plain fun. Lord Zett from Darkstone understands this concept, so he kept it simple while concocting his latest creation. With Bounce Mania, the only thing you need to accomplish is to steer a ball to the exit.

Admittedly, when it’s put like that, it sounds pretty easy, right? Well – sometimes, things aren’t as simple as they appear.

This game proves just that; there’s moments you want to pull your hair out of frustration when that fricking ball does exactly the opposite of what you ask it to do. The darn thing keeps on bouncing… where have we heard that before. Good luck.

Source: MSXdev22

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Alien Astro Frenzy - ZX Spectrum 48K-

 by Vintage Software Systems

 

 An energy crisis has befallen the planet. The aliens have stolen the megafusion crystals to power their deadly astro-base. Retrieve the crystals, defeat the dastardly enemies and destroy the base - before it's too late.

Video: 

 Source:  https://www.vintagesoftwaresystems.co.uk/#astrofrenzy

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MSXdev22 #20 MSX Light

  

Title: MSX Light
Genre: Puzzle
Author(s): Sergio Yukio
Medium: Single Sided DSK
Hardware requirements: MSX2, 64KB RAM, 64KB VRAM, FDD, Mouse

 

“There is a World Crisis. The energy is over. Use your Mouse to turn off the Lights.” – and with that you’re left to your own. Use your mouse to navigate, click away and hope for the best. Clear the field to let the dark enter our world, and prevail.
MSX Light by Sergio Yukio is one of those games that’s easy to pick up, but hard to master. Your task is as simple as to switch groups of light off, but which should not be taken lightly, as you must watch for other panels lighting up again.

Source: MSXdev22

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Black Sea -SEGA Master System-

 A submarine adventure by Mananuk

Conversión del afamado Black Sea de MSX a SEGA Master System por su autor, Mananuk

 

 Fuente: https://mananuk.itch.io/black-sea-sega-master-system

 

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Berzerk -Pico 8-

 by pahammond

 Pico-8 game inspired by the 1980 Stern Electronics game and made possible by the excellent  "Speako8 Speech Synthesis Library" by Jennifer L Schmidt (@bikibird) -  https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=116919#p

Play, here

Source: https://pahammond.itch.io/berzerk

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Transylvanian Castle -Amstrad CPC-

 Role playing by Fitosoft

  

Adaptación de la versión de ZX Spectrum de Transylvanian Castle para el Amstrad CPC

 

Descarga, aquí

Fuente: https://fitosoft.itch.io/transylvanian-castle-amstrad

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ALIEN ANNIHILATION -ZX Spectrum Next-

 by Kevman3D

  

Where in space they came from, we will never know.  All we know is that their bombardment of spinning bombs aimed straight at our cities is a sign of their goal to annihilate the human race.

 

Alien Annihilation is a class arcade game inspired by the classic Missile Command.

Source:  https://kevman3d.itch.io/alien-annihilation

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MSXdev22 #19 Sales Discontinued

  

Title: Sales Discontinued
Genre: Click & point adventure
Author(s): NOP
Medium: DSK
Hardware requirements: MSX2,512KB RAM,128KB VRAM,OPL4,DOS2

 

The Dutch group NOP enters the dev show with their point-and-click graphic adventure called Sales Discontinued. A game that makes use of MSX hardware extensions, such as the OPL4 sound cartridge. A rather unique game, for a unique system.

With the Freestyle edition of MSXdev, it is no surprise that we’d see games with extraordinary hardware requirements. This latest submitted game is good proof of that. Making use of MSX2 with a minimum of 512K of RAM, DOS2, a hard-disk with FAT16 and OPL4, this might as well be the largest piece of MSX software in history. Or at least in MSXdev history.

This hardware requirements may not be available for everyone, but luckily, we have the openMSX as the ultimate MSX emulator for modern computers. The author has provided a fully working HDD image with a dedicated loader for this emulator.

In Sales Discontinued, you are the poor sap that needs to go door-to-door, selling products for a living. What happens next is up to you to find out.

Source: MSXdev22

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Slayer Cat -Steam-

 by Ducktail Games

  

 Slayer Cat is a classic action shooter game that combines hand-drawn drawings with classic gameplay. Inspired by games like Contra, Doom, and Cuphead. Play as The Slayer Cat as you traverse strange places on an enemy planet, and discover and discover the mysteries of this place! 

  

Source: STEAM

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MSXdev22 #18 Muhonmourn 3

  

Title: Muhonmourn 3
Genre: Action
Author(s): hoge1e3
Medium: DSK 720KB
Hardware requirements: MSX1, 32KB, FDD

 

This latest dev-entry, dubbed Muhonmourn 3, is the MSX version of a game series created by Japanese developer hoge1e3. The gist of it is – in a play-field with 3 other contestants, you are to conquer as much ground as you can, and the player with the most covered ground wins, Yes, that means it’s multiplayer, so if you needed an incentive to (gently, ofcourse) hustle friends and family for some cozy living room fun, here’s your chance!

Muhonmourn is a series of HTML games, of which this third edition is the exclusive Z80 MSXdev rendition. It basically functions as a feasibility test of a game engine called reTrONew, by the developer himself. It is a means to develop MSX games with a syntax that resembles JavaScript-like OOP and pseudo-parallel programming.

Let’s get back to the game itself, shall we? So – with four players in the play field, your one objective is to paint more tiles than the other players, within a time limit of 60 seconds. Fast reflexes are needed to dodge enemy attacks, as well as a good portion of wit to outsmart them. Grab the appearing equal-colored ball to increase painting area and use it to delay the opponents.

At the title screen of Muhonmourn 3 you can select your players. This is no luxury and actually with reason, because this game can be played with three players at once, using keyboard and 2 joysticks. If you have no friends or family to play with, because they’re probably playing COD on their smartphones, the almighty MSX CPU will be in control of your opponents, so beware.

Source: MSXdev22

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Planeta Sinclair alcanza 1.000.000 visitas

  

La fantástica web de referencia para los seguidores del ZX Spectrum, Planeta Sinclair, alcanza el millón de visualizaciones, un hito destacado cuando hablamos de una temática dedicada a un ordenador con más de 40 años de historia.

Su contenido es bien conocido por los fans del ordenador británico, nuevos lanzamientos, mias, reviews completísimas (se echan de menos últimamente), etc, y en especial, destacar la organización de su GOTY (Game Of The Year) muy valorado y considerado por desarrolladores y jugadores.

Con todo ello, desde S&R NEWS felicitamos a los amigos portugueses de Planeta Sinclair, y en especial a André Leao (alma mater de la página) por las cifras alcanzadas y por su repercusión en la comunidad Spectrumera.

Fuente: Planeta Sinclair

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Logitech anuncia Logitech G Cloud Handheld, su consola para jugar en la nube

 Se trata de una consola portátil Android centrada en el juego en la nube a través de servicios como Xbox Cloud Gaming o NVIDIA GeForce Now, además de poder ejecutar juegos de forma local

  

• Sistema Operativo: Android 11
• Dispositivo optimizado para el juego en la nube con Xbox Cloud Gaming y NVIDIA GeForce Now
• Pantalla: Contaremos con una pantalla táctil de 7 pulgadas con resolución de 1920 x 1080 píxeles y tasa de refresco de 60 Hz.
• Controles: Retroalimentación háptica y giroscopio, así como dos sitcks, D-PAD, gatillos y botones reprogramables inspirados en el mando de Xbox.
• Autonomía y peso: Más de 12 horas de batería y un peso de 463 gramos

La consola Logitech G Cloud Handheld saldrá a la venta durante el mes de octubre en una fecha aún por confirmar. Por el momento solo se conoce su precio en Estados Unidos, que será de 349,99 $, aunque los primeros que la reserven podrán adquirirla por 299,99 $.

Fuente: VANDAL

 

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SPIKY HAROLD -Game Boy Color-

 by Rajcsányi László (WLS)

  

This is a homebrought game, run on Gameboy Color. Original version: Andrew Rogers and Commodore 16 conversion by Simon Sorsbie - Firebird Software, Commodore 16/Plus4, 1986

  

Download, here

Source: https://lacoste42.itch.io/spiky-harold

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Jerry's endless travels Planet Zarg -VZ 200-

 by Frederick352

 

 Simple platformer, but some rooms have traps and other tricks. Vz200 version storyline of game is different from Zx spectrum version

Download, here

Source:  https://frederick352.itch.io/jerrys-endless-travels-planet-zarg

 

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Switch ya tiene más de 8000 juegos disponibles, 1000 más que hace cinco meses

 El catálogo de Nintendo Switch se ha duplicado en dos años: en septiembre de 2020 había 4000 juegos disponibles, ahora hay 8000. Eso sí, solo alrededor de 800 están disponibles en físico

  

El éxito de la consola portátil de Nintendo resulta incuestionable e intratable, además de ser una fuente inagotable de títulos Indie.

La página oficial de la consola de de la compañía nipona recoge todos los títulos que hay disponibles para la híbrida, tanto en formato físico como en digital, y a día de hoy podemos ver que ya se ha superado la barrera de los 8000 videojuegos, un hito que recuerda mucho al catálogo de títulos disponibles para el ZX Spectrum, en la época dorada de los 8 bits.

La pregunta es bastante obvia, ¿Conseguirá igualar los 15000, 20000 o hasta 25000 juegos disponibles, que se supone que alcanzó el ordenador de Sinclair?

Es probable, que a este ritmo de desarrollo lo podamos ver...

Fuente: VANDAL

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Top&Tom 2600 -Atari 2600-

Port of a GMTK Game Jam game by chsxf for the Atari 2600

  

Original Game

https://chsxf.itch.io/top-and-tom

  

Download, here

Source: https://arlagames.itch.io/toptom-2600

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SPACEMAN KERL -Amstrad CPC-

 by FITOSOFT

  

El equipo de Fitosoft ha conseguido portar uno de los juegos más brillantes, de los últimos tiempos, para el ZX Spectrum, Paracadisita Kerl de Azimov y desarrollado en Basic al Amstrad CPC: Spaceman Kerl

  

Historia

El paracaidista Kerl ha cambiado de escenario de manera súbita. Ahora está en el espacio exterior donde tiene que ayudar a alguien.

Para ello debe descender paulatinamente cayendo de una plataforma a otra, teniendo en cuenta la utilización de 3 tipos de recursos que existen en el escenario. La optimización de esos recursos con inteligencia y suspicacia, será clave para no agotar el fuel en el jet que porta a su espalda, no quedarse sin máquinas perforadoras o baldosas adicionales que permiten extender la plataforma.

Descarga, aquí

Fuente: https://fitosoft.itch.io/spaceman-kerl

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Recordando: Invasion of the Zombie Monsters -Zx Spectrum-

 by Relevo

 

Relevo, un año después de su creación, tal vez consiguieron un de los mejores videojuegos homebrew desarrollado para el ZX Spectrum: Invasión of the Zombie Monsters. Detrás de este largo título se esconde un fántastico shooter horizontal con muchos enemigos, diferentes armas y toques plataformeros que consigue atraparte desde el primer instante. 

 

Además, por si esto fuera poco, fue el regreso de Cesar Astudillo (Gominolas) legendario compositor de melodías para el Spectrum, en la década de los ochenta. Los detalles gráficos y visuales no son menos imponentes para conseguir, en su conjunto, un trabajo redondo que deleitará a los fans del ordenador británico.

Finalmente, no queremos terminar esta breve reseña sin recordar que existen versiones, mismamente, para MSX y CPC, y destacando que, en determinados momentos, recuerda al clásico de Dinamic, Risky Woods.

Descarga, aquí

Fuente: https://relevo.itch.io/invasion-of-the-zombie-monsters

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Gherbert Grounddhog Save the Date -ZX Spectrum-

 DIGITAL DOWNLOAD EDITION - OUT NOW!

  

Gherbert had just got his burrow laid out perfectly for his upcoming date with his sweetheart. Unfortunately his jealous crazy critter neighbours broke in and stole his belongings. With only hours to go until his big date Gherbert must venture outside to find his stuff and get back to tidy up before his date arrives at 8pm.

  

Ric Lumb (PuttyCAD) - Graphics

Jeff Murray (PsychicParrot) - Programming

PUBLISHED BY PuttyCAD/PsychicParrot

Source: https://puttycad.itch.io/gherbert-groundhog-in-save-the-date

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The Story of the Unreleased Sinclair LC3 Console

 

This video looks at the fascinating story behind Sinclair's unreleased 8-bit LC3 console, a low cost system based on the best selling ZX Spectrum.

 Source: The Laird's Lair

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Salt -Windows-

 by Selfish Dream

  

As the hot day subsides, my dolphin body returns to the awaiting work of art below.

  

Cool idea!!

Free Download, here

Source:  https://selfishdream.itch.io/salt

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ESCAPE FROM THE LOST PLANET -Play in browser-

by Isaías Díaz

Eres el astronauta Sainferden, tu nave se ha averiado y has tenido que aterrizar en un planeta desconocido. Tu misión es llegar a un complejo para poder recuperar piezas para arreglar tu nave.

  

Nuevo trabajo de Isaías, especializado en desarrollo de videojuegos para ZX Spectrum, pero que también se apunta al carro de los juegos play in browser, con este  excelente plataformas y una fantásticas melodías obra de Jimmy Devesa: Escape from the lost planet

Puedes jugarlo, aquí

Fuente: https://isaiasdiaz.itch.io/escape-from-the-lost-planet

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MSXdev22 #17 SpaceCat

  

Title: SpaceCat
Genre: Platformer, lander
Author(s): Platty Soft
Medium: ROM 256KB
Hardware requirements: MSX1

  

From Platty Soft, the author of the book Modern MSX Basic Game Development, we received this brand new MSXdev22 entry. Originally released for Android phones way back in 2014, the author recreated the game for MSX1. It combines gameplay aspects of lander- as well as platform games, with accessible gameplay, and also features very cute and colorful graphics. All this makes this release serve as a fine demonstration of what a modern MSX Basic game can be like.

A lot of people like cats, and a great number among those even love them. So naturally, it’s only logical that quite some contributors to MSXdev, throughout the years, would be bound to be a card-carrying member of the league of furry fiend friends.
To name a few examples, there was Imanok’s Stray Cat, ray2day’s Litterbox, and ofcourse Landing by Z80 Epoch. To add to that list, we introduce SpaceCat.

In SpaceCat, you are a new student at the SpaceCat academy. Because, you see, in the year 3122, humankind has conquered space and has taken their favorite pets with them, which would ofcourse be cats. All this for a good reason – namely to hunt mice, as space is infested with those dirty rodents.Make it through the training deck, and you will be rewarded with an official certificate. With that, you can go into space as a SpaceCat pilot.

The gameplay and controls are fairy straight forward. Use the cursor keys to maneuver the cat’s flying saucer through space, catch the mice, and land safely on the next platform. Easy, right? Wrong! You’ll be screaming in frustration after failing again, and again. After all this is a training course. Don’t give up, you’ll get there… eventually.

Source: MSXdev22

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ZOMBIE MALL -ZX Spectrum-

 by The Mojon Twins

  

The Mojon Twins 2022 (anjuel, na_th_an, kendroock, murciano, jfjara, octopusjig y zemman)

  

El regreso a la escena de los Mojon Twins nos trae una historia de Zombis en la que el objetivo es conseguir escapar vivo del centro comercial donde te has refugiado de la horda de no muertos, para el ZX Spectrum: Zombie Mall

Tendrás que echarle ingenio para lograrlo. Podrás interactuar con casi todo el escenario del juego aunque no todo te será útil.

Recoge objetos, combínalos y úsalos para resolver pequeños puzzles evitando los ataques de los zombis ya que a veces pueden causar heridas graves que necesitarás curar y limpiar.

Descarga, aquí

Fuente: https://mojontwins.itch.io/zombi-mall-spectrum

 

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La consola portátil retro Evercade EXP incluirá 18 clásicos de Capcom

 La máquina que llegará a las tiendas de España el 24 de noviembre vendrá con varios títulos instalados: Street Fighter 2, Final Fight, Strider, Breath of Fire, Mega Man y más

  

Evercade EXP, la revisión de la consola portátil dedicada a los juegos retro de recreativas, consolas y ordenadores, está a la vuelta de la esquina: llegará a España y el resto de Europa el 24 de noviembre. Pero no llegará sola: dentro de cada máquina, tanto en su edición estándar como la limitada, vendrán preinstalados 18 juegos de Capcom entre los que hay sagas tan populares como Street Fighter y Mega Man. El listado completo es el siguiente:

• 1942 (Versión arcade)
• 1943 (Versión arcade)
• 1944: The Loop Master (Versión arcade)
• Bionic Commando (Versión arcade)
• Captain Commando (Versión arcade)
• Commando (Versión arcade)
• Final Fight (Versión arcade)
• Forgotten Worlds (Versión arcade)
• Ghouls ‘n Ghosts (Versión arcade)
• Legendary Wings (Versión arcade)
• MERCS (Arcade version)
• Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting (Versión arcade)
• Strider (Versión arcade)
• Vulgus (Versión arcade)
• Mega Man (8-bit)
• Mega Man 2 (8-bit)
• Mega Man X (16-bit)
• Breath of Fire (16-bit)

Evercade EXP estará disponible el 24 de noviembre a un precio de venta recomendado de 149,99 €. Las reservas anticipadas comenzaron el 6 de septiembre.
 

Fuente: VANDAL

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