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MSX was very popular in my area more people had them than Amstrads or C64s I think it was because it was sold in independent tv/hi-fi shops rather than chains like WH Smiths / Dixons so in a rural area people tended to buy from the local shop. The problem was these shops tended not to sell many game...

and it doesn't need to have the greatest graphics either How about really crappy graphics? :wink: Check this out: http://www.stickhead.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/top50/colonialconquest1.png http://www.stickhead.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/top50/colonialconquest2.png I've not played it much, but people who like ...

The original XBOX and the 360 are a poor mans PC without the mouse and keyboard. If you have a decent PC you eventually get versions of nearly all 360 games. FPS, simulation, strategy and especially RTS games are much better on the PC. PS3 exclusives like Uncharted 2, Little Big Planet, Valkyria Chr...

You need a japanese Pioneer msx or any ntsc msx and a Pioneer Palcom ER-101 expansion module. You need to connect it to a Pioneer CLD-9000, LD-7000, LD-5000, LD-v500 or LDP-150 laser disk player. I don't have any laser disks. It would be an expensive proposition to import the hardware needed http://...

I used to have a Sony MSX in the 80s. At the time my family believed the hype that it would be a standard like VHS was for VCRs. It was later sold to finance an Atari ST - a big mistakes as some of the Konami MSX games had better playability than anything on the ST. The Atari was better for work tho...

1. Age of Empires 2
2. Civilization - I liked the first version best
3. Panzer General
4. Gradius / Nemesis - played it originally on an MSX then I spent alot of time playing the original arcade version
5. Space Invaders - I was easily pleased and played all the variations on the VCS

MSX - Penguin Adventure
C16 - never used one. I doubt it has one
BBC - Elite
CPC - most games were converted from other platforms or arcade. Sorcery looked good at the time
Atari 800 - Star Raiders
Spectrum - Knight Lore was a real step forward
C64 - Winter games

The Famicom & MSX cartridge versions come with a special dial controller. I think I have the MSX2 & Atari ST versions stored away. I will compare them if I have time.

At primary school there were no computers but we had a Speak & Spell. I remember we watched a TV program about computers once and the teacher passed round a plastic bag with some microchips in for us to look at Junior school had 4 BBCs one of which was a model A. I only ever saw these computers used...

http://thejoyofsticks.wordpress.com/the-great-atari-st-game-survey-2008/ List of the best games on the ST http://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14998 A partial list of ST games that were not released on the Amiga A few ST games have the option for much better sound if you connect to a MIDI ...

A screen from the game Antarctic Adventure (released 1983 MSX, Colecovision and later Famicom) can be seen briefly in the introduction of Gradius ReBirth that has just been released on the Wii

I am trying for a complete collection of Konami MSX games European and Japanese but it is becoming very expensive. The last one I was able to get was konami's Synthesizer that cost 200 euros. The ones i need are boxed copies of Frogger, Cabbage Patch Kids, A1 Spirit with Steering Wheel, Pooyan on be...

I stopped subscribing to this magazine a while ago. I did not think the articles were well enough researched (and losing issues when the publisher went bust puts you off). More depth and less breadth would be the only way to get me back I bought this issue for the MSX coverage. My first computer was...

Plenty of sharks in this one. I thought it was a good game at the time

http://www.generation-msx.nl/msxdb/softwareinfo/3041

I remember standing on a box playing Sea Wolf (you had to look through a periscope) in an arcade on the Isle of Wight.

The first home video game was Combat on the VCS. The first computer would be a Sony MSX and I played Antarctic Adventure on that