Man, you can not imagine how I feel when a saw this game again!! Last time was in 1988. I am 31 y.o when I was 5 I played every day on my uncle´s MSX. Man you can not imagine how happy I am. See you playing was awesome. Thank you very much!
Ha! Took me about a year to finish this game. No cheating, no playing on Mame and saving, no Sir. I played and played on my Sony MSX- dying in late levels and biting my fist - till I mastered the friggin game & made it to the end. One of Konami's epic classics!
Gosh. Even with such amazing skills you managed to die once. That game is truly hard. Me personally, when I was a child - I never got past level 3..... Only once, barely - and then I immediately caught a projectile.
I remember this game from my early childhood. I'm a big fan of Konami, especially the Castlevania series. I think the song playing over the first stage is awesome, and I fell that there is a lot it's influence in the Castlevania's soundtrack.
lovely childhood memories playing this game with my dad ... i think firebird from konami was a sequell to this one on msx2. damn , how time flies , im 42 now. cant imagine back then to play those games on a smartphone nowadays
Games were so much harder at that time, but somewhat I think that was unnecessary and frustrating. I think the way games are more accessible today made playing games more enjoyable and widespread.
Knightmare ==> Knightmare II Maze of Galius ======> ~Anubis and the Buried Bone~ My what a history lesson this has been, and all started by a porn game no doubt.
oh wow! this game... me and my brothers used to sit in front of the TV all night long trying to beats it, only reaching the second boss and died. as a kid the 2nd boss scared the shit out of me the first time i saw it XD now it looks so silly lol!
Me too but i beat the game . It was one of the best game ever !!! . I disagree with u about looking silly now because it was in1986 (28 years ago). So even the best game now will look bad after 28 years but not silly imo i find even its fun to play because it will remind u of our childhood :).
jason freddy no don't get me wrong, i wasn't talking about the graphics as i'm still playing games with this 8-bit type of graphics and still loved them..." Retro City Rampage " for an example. i was pointing at that grim reaper boss, as a kid anything about ghosts and skeleton used to scare the shit out of me, now as an adult even games like silent hill is barely gave me jump scares :D
Haidar Dashti i believe it's still selling at the PS store, unfortunately, only in the Japanese PS store in a collection, i think the collection called MSX 8 in 1 or something.
I know what you mean. I remember seeing my brother and cousin playing this game back in the 80s and felt amazed by this game atmosphere. Although this type of game aged very well, today I can't say that I had the same reaction that I had when I saw it when I was a kid.
I played this to death as a kid. Even if some power ups and other things weren't very clear. Still enjoyed the fuck out of it. btw. awesome soundtrack. #NeverForget
Yes, this game is running on an emulator, but bear in mind that this is played on a Japanese system which runs at 60Hz instead of 50Hz like European systems do, therefore it should run slightly faster. That being said, I'm not sure how accurately this is emulating an actual Japanese MSX1 system, because I only own an European one.
@@xxbeholderxx Everything about the game runs 20% slower on non-Japanese 50Hz machines. Anyway, I'm 99% sure that I died at least once or twice on this playthrough. I think I would remember if I could do this game deathless (it's on my to-do list for my Twitch streams).
challenge: converting this game to nes/famicom (there are Antarctic Adventure, Circus Charlie and Majou Densetsu 2 for nes/famicom, there are no excuses! :D )
Their stats should be 100% the same. The only difference is that since you start off with arrows, it's slightly faster to get your arrows maxed out. That's not the reason why I prefer double arrows over double swords, tho. I'm just more of a bow and arrows type of guy. :)
The game is played on a Japanese MSX (60Hz) instead of European (50Hz) one, so that's why the music is a bit faster. This is how it's supposed to sound like originally.
Technical limitations. The background is made of 8x8 pixel tiles, and the original MSX can scroll only by a tile. Its CPU power was not high enough to rewrite the tiles per screen refresh for smooth full-screen scrolling. C64 and MSX 2 had scroll registers in their gfx chips for specifying an offset to the tiled graphics, which allowed smooth scrolling. It's amazing to think how much the tech has evolved since, in only 30 years or so.
One of the most difficult games ever. Extra unhandy is that you lose all your power ups when you die. Luckily you could use some poke's to circumvent the game play.
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