 Hello again, welcome back to Classic Replay. Now this video is me going through all of the MSX Dev MSX games since the beginning and picking out the best and I've managed to get it down to 15 games. So these are the best the top 15 games thus far from the MSX Dev competitions and we kick things off with zero. Now this one is a variation on Painter so it's a chase game and also something called Amadar as well in the arcades in which you not only have to escape from all the pursuing creatures but also turn the squares and rectangles to different colors so you're literally drawing lines around things and each level is different as well it provides an increasing number of pursuers and different grids to traverse. Sound is good given the limitations of the MSX and the graphics and animation are excellent. Wow I didn't know the MSX could play music anywhere near the quality that we've just heard I mean am I right here this sounds almost as good as the Commodore 64 SID chip this is fast and colorful and really lively to play. There's good arcade standard sound effects it's a shame the highest score isn't displayed on the screen as well and it's one of those where you shoot everything that moves and shoot everything that doesn't because the pace is so fast the enemy flies across the screen bombing as they go flying in all sorts of formations the vertical scroll does tend to chug a little bit ever so slightly but once you're in the thicker things you don't really notice. I'd also say part of its appeal is the music and sound the weapon upgrades are good as well you get a triple shot eye shot laser shot and they can be upgraded multiple times. Bit logic took me by surprise actually it's a really good game it's quite limited but it's the look and feel of it that really hoakes you in and apparently it's only 48k in size that can't be right surely it looks it sounds and it feels bigger than that this is my second time of actually playing through the game in its entirety and I've just taken random screenshots from that experience that adventure and I'm not kidding when I say I could play through it again and some people say the game feels short but it took me bloody ages obviously not the second time but the first time and yippee unlimited ammo and no flipping timer hate being against the clock it's just a really good classic platform action game and apparently I don't know if this is true or not you can download it for the Nintendo switch or from Steam how pretty stinking cool is that and I quite like the chiptune music as well admittedly I did spend the first couple of minutes playing this wishing I could jump but then after a while the level design kind of kicks in and the logic for emitting a jump makes sense I didn't have a scooby what I was getting into when I loaded up this game it's absolutely flipping brilliant I've never played anything like it and it takes me back to the good old days of 1985 and what I mean by that is its simplicity I mean just look at it you've got to literally find a key you've got a map that you can use to do so and then once you've got the key you've got to traverse the dungeon again to find your way out and move up to the next floor it just looks really good and it works so well and by the third level you'll be facing off against zombies I just can't recommend it enough and it had to go on the list allegedly it's only 48k but it feels like a much bigger game than that it's an absolute beauty and if I ever meet the programmers the people that put this together I'll definitely buy them around so then it feels like an original idea and innovation is very much alive and kicking in the MSX dev competitions another fantastic game a fantastic experience from the second the game starts where the guards are chasing you and you have to pretty much run away from them and then the door closes behind you and they're banging on the door to get through the thing just shrieks of high quality and that's through the beginning middle and end of the game the game translates to the Abbey of the Dead and by MSX standards this is a massive game 256k in size the ending for this game is really dark and will probably piss most people off for me I just found it hilarious and it gives you an insight into the programmers dark side there's little checkpoints along the way that are really helpful my only wish is that they port this to the Amstrad CPC oh and there's a fantastic Linux version where you can play it in the original ZX Spectrum mode or in full color so I really like it and it has that manic minor dynamite Dan feel about it if there's one thing the MSX appears to have a lack of it's driving games racing games so this was a real sight for sore eyes as I stumbled across it and despite some minor gripes I couldn't stop playing this until I completed it I mean look how smooth the whole thing runs the graphics are quite basic I can't stand it where you get stuck on the grass and you also seem to come worse off when trying to overtake nine times out of ten but for anybody that's a fan of Super Sprint or Grand Prix simulator I mean you could even throw micro machines into that mix so this is a good game a much needed style of game on the MSX and I don't feel uncomfortable mentioning this game in the same light of those that came before it I'm impressed I couldn't put it down the controls are as accurate as you could wish for and there's a really good challenge hence it makes the list petrol heads will love it now I already know this is a good game I had it on the Collector vision Phoenix so I've already played it completed it and so it was a breath of fresh air as well to see it in the MSX devilist and I love my shooters especially those that vertically scroll and whilst this isn't perfect and the graphics aren't the best the music animation speed and challenge is brilliant if you're a shooter much fun there's everything in this game that you desire especially on the MSX now what would be good is if they did this for the MSX to turbo with all the high resolution and color we know the MSX can display so as a newbie to the MSX in 2021 this filled for gap and it plays a hell of a lot better than it looks I don't know if I mentioned before but all these games were available free to play online so what a massive exciting time to be alive to play retro games just wow this one really impressed me talk about innovation I thought Pacmania was as good as you could get but this really takes the franchise in a great new direction I'm not sure how Namco feel about this or whether they were the ones to do this originally and this is just a conversion of that but I can't stop playing it it's absolutely fantastic and it's proof that the small the little ideas the slight improvements are sometimes the best built and an already fantastic game with a great formula who knew that it needed a vertical twist and there's three modes in this mode that I'm playing you've literally got to capture all of the ghost which I think is six in total and then you move on to the next stage of which there are ten there's also a two player mode and there's a survival mode and the survival mode runs really fast that's a good look now this is another great shoot them up for the MSX there's actually an MSX2 version that improves on this in lots of different ways one be in the graphics and smoothness of scroll and I think the other version has more levels but we're focusing on the MSX1 here and this is an absolute beaut of a game and my promise to you is that if you like shoot them up so you won't be able to put this one down and that's why I'm here that's why I'm doing this under the day to find those games from the hundreds out there that you can't put down and that you want to continue to play but to be honest the quality of the MSX dev games are really high and I could have had a top 30 or maybe more but then I asked myself you know where where does it end so if your game didn't make this list it's nothing personal it's just that I play these more and who knows I might do another list I'm trying to do a long play of this one at the moment I've got through the whole of Asia and I think I'm nearly at the end of Europe and it's brilliant I can't put it down it's absolutely fantastic stuff and when I have put it down I'm still thinking about it and I guess that's the true test isn't it in a way although you're on a snowboard it feels a little bit like super cycle where you've literally got a race down the track avoid things that are coming at you the only thing this doesn't have unless it's coming later and I haven't seen it yet is competitors opponents and a two-player option would have been fantastic with a split screen but who knows there might be a snowboarding too there's also little jumps that you can go over and pull off stunts like there you go now the problem there the reason I fell is because I wasn't going fast enough but this game is seriously my cup of tea and I hope there's more to come from the programmer I hope there's a sequel because there's so much more that can be implemented and I mean just look at this it's absolutely brilliant it's got lots it's got everything I've not been able to put this one down and also whilst playing I'm just grinning like a Cheshire cat and the girls the kids think it's hilarious it shouldn't be this much fun and I can't explain it but it is just give me the benefit of the doubt and give it a go just give it a couple of goes the controls couldn't be simpler it's just up down left right and fire in fact from memory there was a game called one man and he's droid and you had to go up the screen and as you went up the screen enemies came down to try and block you and so you had to kind of navigate around them if you didn't navigate around them they'd push you off the screen but this has been implemented far better and it's a hell of a lot more fun and once again I'm really impressed by the music on the MSX now the story goes apparently you're a cowboy in the US and your name's Patsy what my mom's name's Pat and people call her Patsy so what's all that about so apparently then you watch something on TV that makes you want to go to Spain and do it for real experience it for yourself and you fly off earn a load of money fly off and experience the fiesta for yourself yeah forget about the story but the games good this is another one that I'm doing a long play on I can't put it down it's really good it's a little bit like zombie eight my neighbors on the Super Nintendo or Sega Mega Drive whichever I can never remember also the comparisons have to be made to gauntlet druid and other games that came before it so anyway there's a virus that spread and it's infected lots of people and it's called the LQP 79 virus not COVID-19 most of the people in the town have been turned into zombies but there are still the odd few people dotted around that need rescuing the music the graphics the intermission screens that you get are all wonderfully thought out and well implemented you basically have to save three survivors on each of the stages and then escape through a door it shouldn't take you longer than an hour to play through but it's just a good old-fashioned top-down shooter and I have to recommend it because again it's another one I can't put down long live the good old msx dev that's what I say now this one it probably should be lower in the list but I really like it and it doesn't look that sophisticated but it plays a blinder and you know I'm a sucker for shooter maps so there might be some internal bias going on towards shooters but there's three characters and lots of enemies and although it's not a bullet hell shooter it's not far it's knocking on the door but I like it I think it's a really good challenge it's not easy you're not going to complete it on your first couple of goes maybe some people out there might but for me it takes at least a good maybe four or five goes for me to get anywhere decent in the game and if you can ignore the graphics and lack of color on the sprites and enemy weapons check it out honestly it's really good all the games on this list are fantastic and so it's not easy to place these games potentially in the right order and it will probably upset people to see certain games in certain positions now this one I just don't think it comes any better I mean the msx dev competition might as well just pack up and go home after this game came through because it probably achieves everything that the competition stands for and I mean you could release this today on any of the major platforms as an indie title a retro release and I think it would sell by the bucket load and it cements the fact that there's lots of creative people out there working on these retro games so my advice is don't miss this it really is retro slice of msx goodness now here's another game I'm not going to say I save the best or last but here's another game that really ups the ante especially in the quality the looks department presentation and play for all intent and purposes you could be playing a Nintendo switch title I mean the quality is really high the level design is off the scale and for me it's one of the most addictive games I've ever played on the msx admittedly I've not played that many I'm far from a seasoned gamer on the msx but that's the feeling I get about this game and it just oozes quality and it gives me that thing where I've got to have another go I've got to get further all I can say to the team behind this is please please and double please with cherries on top and ice cream can you release this on the Amstrad CPC I've really enjoyed this video I'm looking forward to more msx videos so that brings us to an end of another video if you like this please subscribe like it and leave a comment until next time bye