[April fools] Konami MSX antiques 25-in-1 joystick

The newspost below is an April fools joke

We have just received an e-mail from Shigatsu Usoda, stating that a new, very interesting collectors item was released in Akihabara, Tokyo today: a Konami MSX antiques 25-in-1 joystick. Following Namco, Atari and Commodore, Konami has just put a small Joystick-shaped gamecomputer to market which contains the following MSX games:

The joystick can be connected directly to an NTSC television, runs on 4 ordinary AA batteries and can be obtained for 5600 Japanese Yen (about 42 euro) in Japanese shops (at least in Akihabara) as of today. It looks like the joystick contains a complete MSX computer provided in a single ASIC chip, with the ROM images of the games listed above built-in. This news quickly follows the re-release of classic Konami MSX games for Windows on i-revo. Admittedly, the Metal Gear and Snatcher games are left out of this impressive list, but given the fact that the patent on Snatcher was recently renewed, it certainly looks like the fresh co-operation between MSX Association, D4E and Konami is going to lead to more interesting products like these. Thanks go out to Shigatsu Usoda for sending in the news.

Comments (22)

By POISONIC

Paladin (1012)

31-03-2006, 19:40

Nice 1 april fools joke good one why no metalgear and solid snake?

By Manuel

Ascended (19467)

31-03-2006, 19:53

OK, how can you type in the MoG codes with a joystick?

By BiFi

Enlighted (4348)

31-03-2006, 19:56

I wondered when you guys started another april fools joke...

By SolidEric

Champion (332)

31-03-2006, 20:10

Yes, for sure an april 1st fools joke

By Unicorn

Master (138)

31-03-2006, 20:11

MSX Konami games for the masses, sweet! It’s alive people, IT’S ALIVE! Move over one-chip MSX!

NOT!

By wolf_

Ambassador_ (10109)

31-03-2006, 20:32

anduhm.. "F1-spirit in slot 2" when playing "Usas in slot 1" ... how do we combine those? Two joysticks?

By mars2000you

Enlighted (6482)

31-03-2006, 20:42

Shigatsu Soda = April's Water or April's Soda

Let's make bubbles !

By djh1697

Paragon (1702)

31-03-2006, 21:08

Isnt this too early for an April's fool joke ??

31-03-2006, 21:23

The last started March 28th. So you could also say it's rather late ;)

By dvik

Prophet (2200)

31-03-2006, 21:28

I haven't seen this joystick here in the US but there are several similar joysticks with a lot of retro games built in. I know there are at least two different joysticks with C64 games and several arcade once. I tried one that had Aleste (not the MSX version but looked almost the same) and it worked great. They are cheaper here in the US, around $30 iirc.
So although an MSX joystick is news to me, the concept has been around for over a year.

By AuroraMSX

Paragon (1902)