Fruit Mazes is a simple game for MSX 1, in a 16kb ROM using 16kb of RAM. The goal of the game is to navigate the maze in each stage and pick up all of the fruit in the maze within ten minutes, without touching the walls.
It features omnidirectional smooth scrolling, which is not typical of MSX 1 games since hardware scrolling is not a feature of the TMS9918 video chip used in MSX 1 computers.
The scrolling is achieved by pre-generating multiple sets of patterns, one set for each vertical scroll offset modulo 8, and by setting the TMS9918 pattern base address correspondingly.
The game also has accurate roll-on/roll-off of sprites at all sides of the viewport, achieved by setting the EC bit on every sprite and by pre-generating copies of the sprite patterns with pixels masked out from the right.
There are twelve stages, the second set of six stages has narrower corridors.
You are the last surviving member of an artillery regiment fighting in the desert. Using your cannon you are trying to destroy a wave of advancing tanks ans stop them reaching a supply dump. When the first wave is destroyed you are attacked by super thanks that are more difficult to hit. You have 4 defensive positions and if the thanks reach your last defensive position or you receive 3 direct hits the game ends.
When you hit a star on an enemy, a fruit will appear. If you take a fruit, you get a score.
When you touch an enemy, your POWER will decrease.
When the power reaches 0, the game is over.
MSX Port of "OutRun"
OutRun is a racing game that allows the player to race across varied terrain in a readily available Ferrari, over a series of short tracks.
Gameplay is viewed from just above and behind the car. The roads are full of sharp bends and hazards, contact with which can cause the car to roll and lose the player’s time. On each section of track there is a fork in the road, allowing the player to choose which direction he or she wishes to go in. The player has to to complete five track sections in total, out of the fifteen in the game.
You control the main character who has to take the red ball. When you insert the red ball into the hole in the wall, an exit appears. Once the hero enters there, the level is considered passed. There are a total of 15 levels. The game ends when you complete the last level. To open the chest with a question mark, climb onto the chest and press the down button. There are also secret brick blocks that open in the same way. The hero's lives increase by one for every 20,000 points.
Developed for the BASIC 10Liner 2023 contest, 10 Lines Princess is a sequel to the already impressive 10 Lines Hero, which was itself an entry to the 2021 edition of the contest. This time, killing enemies changes your color to allow for hazard immunity and more effective healing, among many improvements. The hero saved the princess, but after the hero had been captured, can the princess rescue her savior?
The objective of the game is to rescue the princess who has been kidnapped by monsters. You have to defeat the monsters that live in the dungeon and reach the room where the princess is trapped.
Hydefos is a shoot 'em up with smooth scrolling, a rarity on the MSX, where the scrolling is usually choppy, and a feat developer Hertz had already accomplished on a previous title, action platformer Psychic World. You pilot one of five ships through levels featuring branching paths, so two play-throughs could be different depending on where you go.