Time Bandits on Memotech MTX 512 vintage home computer

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Time Bandits playing on the Memotech MTX 512 vintage home computer. Retro gaming.

This is not a review, walkthrough, playthrough, or demonstration of my playing ability.
It's simply a quick demonstration of the game so that anyone not familiar with these old games can see what it looks like.
It's also here so that I can embed it, along with most of the games in my collection, on my website (see link above).

Any opinions or comments I make regarding these games should largely be taken with a pinch of salt.
They are usually based on my first impressions after a very brief play.

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[Retr0Rewind]

Didnt realise that you had done a video of this game. Found it totally by accident.. DOH!! Me and my brother played this game to death on our Toshiba MSX many many years ago. Certanly bought back the memorys.

[SteveBenway]

@Retr0Rewind Cool :)

I have a feeling quite a few MTX games are conversions of MSX games, as the specs are very similar.

[andyzkey]

@SteveBenway No. The MTX predated the MSX. We did port some MTX games to MSX although AFAIK, these didn't make it to market. Some later MTX titles may have come from MSX.

[SteveBenway]

@andyzkey I stand corrected :)

[inphanta]

This is the first time I've seen one of these in action. All we need now is for some demoscene coders to do something with it!

[nickmctrick]

nice parallax scrolling. Very pretty.

[gjc82071]

@gjc82071 PS: The webpage I told you about, If you decide to check out those games (the .wav files that run on MTX/How to make a MTX CD-ROM) could you let me know? As we've discussed, I am interested in the MTX, just can't find/get any emulator to work. So I am just curious if those games I told you about work on a real MTX. Looked like there were a few conversions/ports & maybe some homebrew games on the site. I think 38 games in total. Good luck/hope they work if you choose to get them.

[gjc82071]

@gjc82071 Yea, I can't get it to work with MESS. MTX Emu loads a few games (tapes only), but they run 10x speed. I'm familiar with(& totally LOVE) C64. Back in the day, I had a real Vic20 & C64 (& Timex Sinclair 1000). Now I use emulators. I have almost EVERY (20,000+) C64 game/ROM. Same for Vic20 & Amiga PC's (about 19,000)  I have basically every retro/classic emulator & ROM. I also have 14 real classic game consoles (Atari, Fairchil Channel F, INTV, etc) R U familiar with emulators?

[MadCommodore]

@gjc82071

MESS does not work, one version allows you to load the games but not emulate the keyboard/joysticks properly so you can't start them and the later versions break the cassette loading routines so are useless seeing as nobody else is going to re-dump the roms in snapshot format they want ;)

It's a shame because I've got the actual machine too and they are nice machines, bit different to the old C64s....very similar to the MSX 1 machines. Some cracking games for them though.

[SteveBenway]

@gjc82071 Ah, my mistake... sorry for my blunt reaction :)

I didn't know about that site. I'll definitely check it out. Thanks very much :D