A new game has arrived in town for the MSX, released at the MSXdev22 competition. It’s Zett Darkstone’s new puzzle game called Bounce Mania. The goal of the game is to steer a ball around a challenging maze to reach the exit. It sounds pretty easy, right? But it’s not simple as that. There are moments you want to scream out of frustration when that annoying ball does exactly the opposite of what you ask it to do.
In this game, you play as a spy, who has set up an airship in order to farm for crops stolen from an evil megacorporation.
The game is set into two phases, Espionage, where the player explores the corporate owned farm in order to find seeds to steal, and Farming, where the player uses they found in order to farm for crops and gain money for farm expansions, and maybe something else too.
Sleeping in your bed allows your plants time to grow, and if you have stolen seeds, it will store them so that they can be used to plant new crops, and won’t be lost if you are caught by the guards, in addition, seed locations that were stolen from will have new seeds for you to find.
Attention, Gamers! Another new game has arrived: Fly, Fohla-Chan, Fly by Kuri. It is made with Nintendo GB Studio and is available for download via itch.io.
Fohla Chan is a tiny leaf that fell off its plant. You need to find a new, good place to stay safe. Explore and make new friends for a new home by playing this new, tiny and cute game.
The Saga of Sir Thimb, a new game by Idnit Media, has recently been released within GBJAM #10.
It is a tale of a rather tiny hero: Build up on miniature proportions you need to explore above and below the surface while you jump and slash your way through a big world on a small scale. Find the wise oracle and help restore peace to the land. You need to fight some nasty bugs along the way and finally plant the three sacred seeds to return the power to the Flora Folk’s shrine.
Plant! At the End of the World by Amish Alvi, Red Ahmed, Robin Carnilius and Ryan Davis has recently been published for the classic Nintendo Game Boy. This side-scrolling platform game is developed with GB Studio.
The goal of the game is to collect raindrops and save the last plant on earth from wordly pollution. You can move around and float the plant, but be cautious! It is the last hope for humanity!
Spring Warrior by Oniric Factor is MSX single player game, released early 2022.
The goal of the game is to take control of Spring Warrior (aka the main character) and make sure that you survive each level. Beware! The enemies will not leave you alone, only skilled players can manage the whole map. If you have some spare money, you can grab a physical edition of the game as well.
Looking for a new and exciting adventure game? Sales Discontinued by Nop has been recently released for MSX2. The game features Karl Dandleton, an unsuccessful door-to-door salesman who gets himself into the most difficult situations just by fate.
To play this exciting adventure, you only need a hardware with 512K RAM, FAT16 filesystem and OPL. As explained by Nop, the game itself is “100% assembly coded and it uses a custom designed tokenized scripting language. It contains more than 30,000 scripting lines and 5,000 lines of dialog, resulting in what we think must be the most storage space hogging MSX™ game ever.” And what’s more, it’s completely free!
All Humans must die! is a homebrew Nintendo Game Boy (Color) by Mr.Papshmir. You can download it for 4.99 EUR at itchi.io. This game is more of a mini game, but an entertaining one. You control a spaceship and you just gotta kill as many humans as possible (hence the name!).
Tetraminos MD by lunoka has been published in March 2022 for the Sega Genesis / Sega Mega Drive. This demo game has been made with SGDK and is a well known “Soviet falling blocks” game. Goal is the clear all lines, while the challenge will get harder the longer you play.
Super Maximum Overkill by SpacePantsGames has been published in May 2022 for the Sega Genesis / Sega Mega Drive.
The player’s autofire shooting tank moves around in an enemy field, shielding and protecting itself. When you pickup the leftovers of your opponents, your OVERKILL bar refills and you get 10x more points during those kills. It’s a challenging shooter, supposed to look hard but much easier to play. Give it a try and see for yourself!