Most Popular Msx Games - Page 3
Marine Battle
1983
Marine Battle
1983
Marine Battle is an arcade shooter which pits your destroyer against a multitude of aerial and naval forces. Your ship can move back and forth across the top of the water, and can fire directly upwards at planes or downwards at submarines or the elusive ghost ship whose shadowy presence occasionally manifests itself at the bottom of the screen. Both planes and submarines may fire back at you, and the goal for a given level is to destroy a certain number of submarines before a timer runs out and while avoiding incoming fire. Destroying a plane will cause its pilot to bail out into the water, and he may be collected for extra points. Your war ship also has a finite amount of ammunition, and a limit on the number of bombs/shots in the air at any one time. When ammo supply runs low, a resupply ship appears at the side of the screen allowing you to restock. Later levels increase the rate of fire of all of the enemies, and the game continues with increasing difficulty until you eventually lose all your lives.Fruit Search
1983
Fruit Search
1983
Fruit Search is a Puzzle game, published by HAL Labs, which was released in Japan in 1983.Devil's Heaven
1983
Devil's Heaven
1983
Devil's Heaven is an Action game, developed by Compile and published by General, which was released in Japan in 1983.Galaxian
1984
Crazy Bullet
1983
Crazy Bullet
1983
Crazy Bullet is a variant of the arcade game Tank. As in that game, there is a top-down view of an arena containing two equally equipped tanks who engage in a fight to the death. Each tank can fire a bullet at a time, and move to avoid the opponent's fire. Contact with a bullet will destroy your tank, earning your opponent a point, and the first player to five points wins the contest. The current game has a couple of important differences from the original. The most important is that bullets do not just travel in a straight line after you fire them. They move in the direction in which you last directed your tank. This allows you to fire around corners, and even to shoot yourself (gifting your opponent a free point). Secondly, there are a number of different arenas which can be chosen, with different wall layouts. Some of these layouts also include a turn-style which allows you to pass but stops any pursuing bullets. Finally there are two speed settings (for fast and slow bullets).Midway
1983
Midway
1983
Below your fighter, you have spotted a fleet of enemy warships. Your airfleet has only three fighters. You find yourself preparing for a life or death battle that can only begin right now. The enemy battleship has already begun to attack with full power. How much success will you have in defeating the enemy fleet?Car Race
1983
Volleyring
2021
Volleyring
2021
Hedgehogs cannot play volleyball because their spines might pierce the ball. Instead they choose volleyring - essentially the same game, but using a ring from Sonic's universe. The rules are simple: send a ring to opponent's side, don't touch the net or ground. Hedgehog have to jump to strike the ring, but three consecutive contacts with it is a fault. Match is played to 15 points. Left player is Sonic the Hedgehog, right player is Shadow the Hedgehog. Both are controlled by players using joysticks or cursor keys. Press [ 1 ] in the main menu to choose Sonic's controls, press [ 2 ] to pick Shadow's controls. Press [ S ] to start match. Note that there is an easter egg in the game!Ikari
1987
Magic Pinball
1987
Magic Pinball
1987
Released in 1987, this Spanish pinball game was developed and published by Omikron. Outside the review (and a page ad) on Issue 42 of MSX Extra, listing on MSX Games World and a post on Instagram by MSX Calamar, not much is known about this obscure game.Arkanoid II
1988
Arkanoid
1987
Alien Syndrome
1988
Sonyc
1995
Ninja Savior
2015
Pac-01
2021
Pac-01
2021
A certain round yellow guy, who’s probably the most iconic video game character ever, makes his entrance in ARC8’s recent MSX game called “PAC-01”. That’s right, it is Pac-Man himself that makes waves in the world’s fastest dot eating game. Combine Pac-Man with relentless vertical scrolling, and you get an interesting game concept. In PAC-01, your playfield scrolls from bottom to top, as pills are scattered around to be eaten. However, pills aren’t the sole item on the menu. The point of PAC-01 is that you advance a level when you had all six of the the spooky baddies for lunch – or dinner, whatever you prefer. Also, as is only befitting in a Pac-Man themed game, pieces of fruit will appear occasionally to serve as a refreshing snack which will increase your score. In this fine piece of Z80 entertainment, you hunt down the ghosts that escaped from the glitch; the deadly green computer bits at the bottom of the screen. This pool of game glitches also means instant death to our yellow little protago
