No relation to Quintet. Quartet is a puzzle game that has made its rounds on multiple platforms before landing on MSX in 2018, courtesy of Ilkke and bitsofbas. The original concept appears to be from a Flash game Quartet (Photon Storm,...

Konami's Nemesis is arguably one of the most popular game series on MSX. For Santiago Ontañón's The Menace from Triton (2020), that is also a key inspiration. The author has also stated that Steredenn (Pixelnest Studio, 2...

MSXdev is a long-running game dev compo for the MSX computers. The deadline for entries of the 2021 edition was the end of August 2021, and a record number of entries took part. Coincidentally, the rewards were also higher than ever be...

MSXdev'21 will have its deadline on August 31st, 2021, and I wanted to add in my entry as well. This year, I didn't manage to make a brand-new game from scratch. Instead, I chose to just update my previous adventure game engine and wri...

I've been orienteering a few times this spring. The control points are in the forest for one week, I can buy a copy of the map with the control points' locations and with that, I can go find them when I want (within that week), at my o...

This time, I'll tell you about a game where the player has to take photos of youkai to defeat them. I thought of trying to make you believe I'm talking about Project Zero, but no, can't do that. There are some similarities, though -- y...

If you've followed my qtoid posts in February, you may have noticed me frequently posting about Captain is Dead. As a Star Trek fan that this game introduced into boardgaming, I have something of a soft spot for it. Captain is Dead is ...

I didn't expect to see these happening: rereleases of feature phone games on modern platforms. Zanac was an 1986 shmup by Compile, whose later titles included Blazing Lazers, Puyo Puyo and Aleste. This gives Zanac a fair bit of histori...