You may recall the Alien 8 MSX2 remake gaining very positive reactions from the MSX scene, not too long ago. And not without reason, the new MSX2 graphics were nothing short of outstanding.

Today, a new video popped up at YouTube showcasing what appears to be Manuel Pazos' next big bang: an MSX2 remake of Knight Lore, the isometric MSX1 game from 1986 by Ultimate Play The Game. This remake is visually as spectacular as the Alien 8 remake, maybe even better, although it's a different genre of course. In any case, this new remake represents some of the best graphics you can find in any MSX2 game. The video showing a bit of the gameplay is one you want to see. At once!

Relevant link: YouTube - Knight Lore MSX2

A while ago, new MRC member maikuma let us know on the forum that a new Thexder game is expected to be released later this year for Sony's PSP and PS3. Thexder, released by Game Arts for several Japanese homecomputers (including MSX of course) and ported to other systems overseas by Sierra, is to be remade by Square Enix.

Square Enix are mostly known for their successful RPG series, notably Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, but have some experience with shooting games too, like Einhänder. MSX Thexder fans owning one of the aforementioned Sony consoles will rejoice.

Relevant link: YouTube video

Source: Remakes Zone

A few weeks ago, Ignacio Lancho released a new remake of Abu Simbel Profanation called La Maldición de Ramsés. The remake can be found right here.

Relevant link: Abu Simbel - La Maldición de Ramsés

On MSX, the Nemesis saga is one of the most popular game concepts by Konami, perhaps only topped by their Metal Gear games. And not without reason: the Nemesis games (including Parodius and Salamander) were great action games with memorable music, stunning graphics for MSX1 and great gameplay. Later on in history, Space Manbow would lift up Konami's shooter concept to quality levels comparable with those from 16bit consoles from the same time. It's the old Nemesis/Gradius series however which seems to stand the test of time. Often, retro fanatics keep themselves busy with these games, and that has happened just once more!

It's called Nemesis online, by Kotai. Judging from the screenshots alone, this production looks very polished, while still not losing that magical sense of retro here and there. It's well worth checking out if you are a Nemesis fanatic!

Relevant link: Nemesis online

Whilst browsing the web for remakes to publish on Classic Retro Games, Bart spotted a remake in the making of King's Valley on Crozza's site. Although development is currently on hold, and only a screenshot is available, development appears to be half done already. Perhaps a mail or two could persuade PJ to complete it?

Relevant link: Crozza's site - Projects in development

A new version of Nemesis Online has been released. New in this version is that all the stages of Nemesis 1 have been finished! Also available are videos of the new levels. Which leaves us with an important question, would there ever be a game like this for the Graphics9000? It certainly looks doable for this chip!

Relevant link: Nemesis Online

Yesterday, a new version of the F1 Spirit Remake was released. Changes in this version:

• New HUD
• Direction signs
• Night mode in the endurance track
• Chat room for the upcoming network mode
• Much improved version of the online highscores
• Extra tracks whic appear after finishing the game
• Updated musics and graphics
• Option to change nº of enemy cars in multiplayer modes
• Optimized collision detection so that the game is much less CPU intensive
• Rocks in Rally mode, including jumping rally cars
• Adjusted difficuty in the first races of the game
• Many bugs fixed and many other little things

In this forum thread you can comment on the changes and make suggestions for future versions.

Relevant link: F1 Spirit Remake website

Computer Emu Zone, who just got rewarded the runner-up position in MSXdev'08 have released a remake of Captain 'S'. The original game dates back to 1988 and was released by Dinamic, a company from Spain. While the MSX version had the typical mono-color looks, this remake is -as one can expect- highly colorful and detailed.

The game is available for Windows and Linux. A video and screenshots of the game are available at their website, highly recommended!

Relevant link: Computer Emu Zone - Captain 'S'

The Nemesis Online project by Kotai keeps progressing. It's a remake of the nemesis series using modern graphics, yet still having that retro style. Meanwhile we're facing version 0.26f already, containing a stage full with megabosses (including the big bird!). The Nemesis Online website features videos demonstrating all these.

Relevant link: Nemesis Online

Source: MSX Files

Knightmare Gold is an MSX2 remake of Konami's classic Knightmare, originally released for MSX1 in 1986. Using the capabilities of the MSX2, the Knightmare gold remake adds multicolor sprites, the possibility to use the Knightmare Audio CD for BGM, different color settings and the famous double wave Konami logo as a bootscreen. The game will be released on a CD-ROM and will function as a patch to the original Knightmare ROM.

On the Knightmare Gold website you can find a lot of information on the project (in Portuguese), download MIDI and XM arrangements of the Knightmare songs and have a look at a screenshot of the loader of the game.

Relevant link: Knightmare Gold website