A few days ago, the third issue of Retroaction was released. In the first two issues of this -good looking- digital magazine MSX got its fair share of attention already, and luckily this third issue again features MSX! Within the 88 pages, here's how MSX gets mentioned:

• A short newspost about MSXdev'09.
  
• A short newspost about the harvest of the first edition of the PassionMSX2 contest and the announcement of the second edition of this contest
  
• A review of RetroWorks "Knight Lore MSX2", which receives an overall score of 85% (92% for the graphics)
  
• A review of Karoshi's "La Corona Encantada", which receives an overall score of 84%
  
• A review of Infinite's "Shift", which receives an overall score of 85%

As mentioned above, this free magazine really looks great, the 88 pages are crammed with text, color, images and screenshots. Recommended!

Relevant link: Retroaction magazine

Scene.org, a large website providing a platform for demos (or electronic art, as they call it) all around the globe, has nominated five oldschool demos from 2009 for their annual scene.org awards. From these five nominations, two are MSX demos!

• Bold, by dvik & Joyrex
• Syntax Infinity, by Tulou & Traktor

These demos will have to compete with two Commodore 64 demos and one Spectrum demo.

Relevant link: scene.org oldschool nominations

This month, the second issue of OLD!Gamer arrived in Brazil. This magazine is aimed at a number of old computer platforms, including MSX, and it's very famous in Brazil. This issue features MSX right away: Marcelo Tini, of MSX History was interviewed. This fresh bimonthly magazine is targeting at collectors of old systems and games. Other platforms featured in the magazine are Arcade, Atari, Dreamcast, Master System, Mega Drive, Neo Geo, NES, SNES and various others. These make up for a very wide era of gaming, and to have our MSX between these is of course something truly special!

Relevant link: OLD!Gamer - issue 2

The digitally published Retroaction Magazine puts the focus where you expect it: retro platforms. A landscape format magazine with quite a lot of pages, all in full color. There have been two issues so far, but in both issues MSX gets some attention!

The first issue contains a review of the puzzle game Perfect Fit, awarding it with an average of 87%! The game got positive remarks from our own scene as well, as you may recall.

The second issue lists the results of MSXdev'08. Further on in this issue, Deep Dungeon (the winner of MSXdev'08) got a review with a score of 87%. Also, the racing game I Need Speed (runner-up) got a review, and a score of 68%. Danger Tower (ranked fourth) also got a page of the magazine, and a score of 80%.

The magazine itself looks very spiffy. It's an online magazine, with this quality it would probably be too expensive to make it a real magazine, considering it's not a magazine for a mass market. In any case, MSX got mentioned in both released magazines so far, with far more than just the single line of text in your average Metal Gear Solid article. These things make your day!

Relevant link: Retroaction Magazine 1
Relevant link: Retroaction Magazine 2

In a recent show of the Brazilian MTV, a number of people were interviewed regarding the various game consoles they own. All kinds of models are clearly visible, including our sturdy MSX! The MSX logo isn't really shown, but to us it was of course more than obvious. Later on Konami's Vampire Killer is shown, both the cartridge and the actual game play.

Relevant link: YouTube - MSX on MTV

MSX fan djh1697 from the United Kingdom just finished scanning the first (and perhaps only) twelve issues of the Konami Software Club Newsletter. These newsletters, more than twenty years ago, kept its readers up to date about Konami. MSX receives a lot of attention, but other systems are mentioned as well. It contains a lot of history, which could be described as essential for any MSX fan out there!

Relevant link: MSX Info Pages

Update (September 16th, 2009): Issue 13 has been scanned and put online here.

The latest issue of the Spanish magazine @RROBA was just released. It's a consolidated computer magazine, distributed in the whole of Spain. For this issue, the chief editors of the magazine were attracted to La Corona Encantada, the new MSX and ZX-Spectrum game from the the Karoshi Corporation. This game, released initially at MSXdev'08 and later at RetroMadrid, is available on cartridge or cassette.

This issue of @RROBA contains a four page article about the making of La Corona Encantada, how it was initially developed for MSX and then upgraded to other system. But the article also mentions how Alfonso Azpiri, a classic illustrator from hundreds of 8-BIT Spanish games, joined the team.

Another two pages are dedicated to a review of the game itself, giving it a whopping 8/10 score. But the real icing on the cake is the cover of this magazine: La Corona Encantada is the main news item at the cover of the magazine, showing the game cover, filling up the whole cover! When was the last time you saw a national magazine in the kiosk or newspaper store featuring an MSX game at the cover? Well?

Relevant link: Thread at the Karoshi forum

The Spanish leading videogame website MeriStation recently published an article about Konami's Snatcher saga of no less than twelve pages. The article appears in a series of writings dedicated to retrogaming called Regreso al Pasado (Back to the Past).

The entire site is in Spanish. However, the quality of the article is superb and it is worth translating it into your language if you'd like to read it. Not only does it cover the Snatcher saga, it also mentions other excellent MSX games from the eighties and nineties.

Relevant link: MeriStation - Article about Snatcher series

Source: MSX Forum

Another tad of news from our MSX discussion boards: the English magazine RetroGamer have once again published an article on the MSX computer system. In the current issue they take 'an in-depth look at the Japanese MSX and discover why the interesting hybrid didn’t exactly endear itself to the UK masses.'. Although the article itself isn't exactly flawless, it is an interesting read and of course it's always nice to see our favourite 8bit platform popping up in the media.

Relevant link: RetroGamer

The leading videogames website for the Spanish market, MeriStation, just published an article about Konami's Knightmare saga on MSX. This article appears as one of the first entries in a section called Back to the Past, dedicated to retro games and published at weekends. This section appears in the splash home page of the site and normally consists of seven to nine pages. Examples of previous entries in this section are Super Mario World, Ghouls 'n Ghosts and the Donkey Kong Country saga.

The entire site is in Spanish. However, the quality of the article and the section is superb and it is worth translating it in your language for reading. It does not only cover the Knightmare saga, but it also mentions other excellent MSX games from the 80's and 90's, as well as mentioning some of the remakes done by Braingames - focusing on the Maze of Galious remake.

Relevant link: MeriStation