Arcade Perfect has interviewed the creators of the famous game Q*Bert. The interview is built up in several parts about the game, the gaming industry at that time, emulation and themselves.
Quote: "Developed at Gottileb's Northlake plant and released in 1982, Q*Bert is a lesson unto both the players and creators of video games.
Delta Soft site update
Just before the holidays Delta Soft announced an update of their home page. The third scenario disk of Sorcerian is fully translated and can be downloaded for everyone who bought the translation. Other things updated to their page:
- Their calendar has been updated
- The solve of Level 3 of Find It has been added
- Order list has been updated
EGG - 10.000 members
One of the first signs of the MSX Revival was Project EGG that started selling Retro Software for PC at very low prices in April 2002. The MSX games run on PC using MSXPLAYer.
MSX Downloads top 10
A month ago we introduced our new freeware MSX downloads database. Several interesting files were added so we thought it would be nice to check which ones are the most popular every now and then. Here is the current Top 10:
- 01.
The major community site for Texas Instruments calculators, ticalc.org, has added an MSX Utilities section to their file archives.
Best MSX2 game ever [round 2]
After a grand total of 29 people had cast their votes in the first round of our search for the best MSX2 game ever 108 games moved on to the next round. Right here you can find all you need to know if you want to participate in the second round of this mega-poll. Only 54 games will make it to the next round.
BestGear scans
We reported earlier about the appearance of an MSX top 3 in the August edition of the Japanese computer magazine BestGear. On Gigamix online you can look at a small scan of the magazine.
Nintendo songs
Sources: VGM or Chiptune news and Gigamix online
As you all probably know many popular MSX games were ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES or FAMICOM). In most of these ports the music remained very close to the original.
MSX Info pages update
Hans Otten has updated his MSX Info pages once again with some valuable information.
MSX Fair Bussum 2003
Laurens Holst just mailed us to let us know the annual MSX Fair in Bussum will be held on September 27th this year. As you probably know, the MSX Fairs in Bussum are the continuation of the legendary MSX Fairs in Zandvoort.
The Bussum fair consits of two parts: A regular MSX Fair which is followed by an MSX Marathon that will continue until Sunday morning.
