Buck Rogers MSX

[hootyhaha]

In space, explosions sound like flatulence!

[saigokun]

@hootyhaha

Nothing beats flatulent explosions in arcade games from the eighties!

[mintysilver]

Wasted my childhood playing this, Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner...Loved my MSX!!!

[saigokun]

@mintysilver

Those were the good old days, my friend :)

[jayce79]

The Commodore 64 version was even bettre than this.

[hootyhaha]

Was the MSX system a better system than the Atari 5200? Looks like the graphics are a little bit more detailed.

[saigokun]

Good question. I can't really judge that since I never had an Atari 5200.

I do know however that British and Spanish software houses produced games with that very detailed in graphics even if they only used one color ('English disease').

[stevethefishdotnet]

@hootyhaha The graphics look better in this version for the MSX (the fighter actually resembles the one in the show), but the 5200 version had better SFX and maybe faster, arcade-like action.

[SandsOfArrakis]

Aww man, thanks for bringing back some very good childhood memories. I don't know how many hours I've wasted getting my MSX to load this game from a tapedrive. Been years since I've played the game, but it still hasn't lost it's appeal to me. I think I have to dig it up somewhere since my MSX went KIA..

[saigokun]

You are welcome.

It was a great game. I too played it (and Zoom 909) for many hours.

I liked it when you took off into space for the space dog fight and destroying Ardala's ship.

[ApacheMan2K]

"ES" must belong to the person who designed and/or programmed this game. did Sega actually sell this on MSX? they were already doing SG-1000 games at that time, i think.

[saigokun]

Thanks for your reaction. Yes Sega made a lot of games for the MSX system and released them under their own name, although they also licensed a few games.

I guess you are right about 'ES'.

[ApacheMan2K]

i've also been curious about whether or not Sega actually made Colecovision ports of their games for Coleco, considering the style of the graphics and audio.

[saigokun]

Sega made several games for the Colecovision. Zaxxon for example. Zaxxon was ported twice to the MSX, the first one was the Colecovision version. The second (and in my opinion superior version) was the reprogrammed one.

[ApacheMan2K]

that would make sense. i mean, the MSX and the Colecovision basically had the same guts, so to speak. i believe that Konami made a number of games, too (like Antarctic Adventure and Cabbage Patch Kids, which is related to Athletic Land). i've also wondered if Sega made games such as Smurf Rescue, as well, since such a game shares similar graphics and audio style (and even text).

[saigokun]

The MSX, Colecovision and ZX Spectrum were nephews of each other.

Konami licensed several titles to Ocean Soft.

Cabbage Patch Kids was released later than Athletic Land. If I am correct it was a merchandise vehicle for some toy line in the US.

[ApacheMan2K]

and you'd be right. the game was based on a popular line of dolls, here in the USA. strangely enough, i've seen two versions of Cabbage Patch Kids, which Konami made -- one for Colecovision, and one for MSX.

[saigokun]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was also licensed by Konami to a third party but I can't remember which one.

[ApacheMan2K]

Image Works, i believe. i saw a ZX Spectrum version, once.

[saigokun]

Yes, you are right. It was converted to various ports, including ZX Spectrum and the MSX.

WEC Le Mans was another one.

I think that Green Beret (or Rush 'n' Attack) was the last game Konami licensed to a third party in the home computer era. But I am not sure about that.

[ClassicTVMan81]

TMNT was distributed by Konami's offshoot label, Ultra Games, for the Nintendo NES and Game Boy (the offshoot label was a way of Konami working around Nintendo's 5 games a year per licensee limit outside Japan; for the European PAL market, Konami had established Palcom there for the same reasons as Ultra Games here).

[saigokun]

Thanks for this info. I didn't know about Palcom. As far as I know Konami licensed several games to European software house like Ocean Soft, at least for the MSX platform. All with results below Konami's (and that of the gamer) expectation.

[jkeelsnc]

I played this one on the C64 and it is a cool game. The MSX and C64 versions appear about equal overall.

[saigokun]

Thanks for sharing that information.

[SpeakRH]

I can't believe I used to spend hours playing this! I want my youth back!! Damn MSX.

[saigokun]

Hahaha, this was (is) a good game.

[AnimeTalk]

hey i love the game called :snatcher on the msx its such a classic cyberpunk game

[saigokun]

Welcome Animetalk, I love your reviews. Snatcher is indeed a very good game and so is SD-snatcher. Again welcome AnimeTalk.

[neshagui]

It seems to be a very great game

[saigokun]

It is a great game. I especially like the player's fighter which resembles the ones I saw in the TV series.