Sent you a DM. Hopefully that works. Alternatively, you could also look for "FOT-ManyoKoin Std B".

It seems like there's no modern digital version of Tankoin AL-KL font available anywhere, but we do at least have clones that are really close to the original, such as HanWang GuinMedium-Gb5:

For over a decade I've been wondering what this freaking font is, because I kept constantly seeing it in Japanese gaming media from the 80s and 90s. It wasn't until in recent years when I discovered that the font is called Tankoin AL-KL (淡古印 AL-KL) and it was made by Shaken (写研) in 1979.

A random manga from the 1989-9 issue of Technopolis magazine, featuring Adventure of Randar II: Revenge of Death (Disc Station Special #3, MSX2).

GitHub - fygar256/psk_act: past pasocom shop Kochi action games that run on FreeBSD with wine and M88. past pasocom shop Kochi action games that run on FreeBSD with wine and M88. - fygar256/psk_act

Some of their original PC-88 action games can be downloaded from here: github.com/fygar256/psk...

Games icluded here are Galack, Pack'n Boy, Star Struck, and Internal Trouble.

While going through I/O Magazines, I stumbled on this advert from the 1983-03 issue. It's for PSK PC Shop Kochi (パソコンショップ高知), a computer store that used to sell adult games, system-related software, and action games in the 80s. They ceased operations in 1990.

This girl cracks me up. She's not OK.

BUSTERS - Majuu Busters for PC98

here's that undumped #PC98 doujin adv we talked about yesterday. happy gaming! 😸 archive.org/details/bust...

I was really surprised to see how every single version kept the exact same dimensions for the rooms. I was expecting it at least being different for the Game Boy port, but nope!

Cross Blaim (1986, MSX) is a Metroid-type game by dB-SOFT. It was originally advertised as a totally different game -- an action-strategy-RPG with side-scrolling battles that up to 3 players could play simultaneously. However, it got completely overhauled after the main designer left the company.

Commodore 64 version is the worst of the bunch and has the clunkiest controls and bubble movement. Personally, if you're only going to play one or two versions of Bubble Ghost, make it the Atari ST original and/or the Game Boy port. The latter is the only version with in-game music.

DOS version is the easiest of them, if you can emulate it. Gives the most lives.

Every single version of Bubble Ghost/Bubble+ mapped!👻

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Macaw45 is a huge fan of this game. Always talking highly of it.

This makes me so sad. 😭

Many covers of Bubble Ghost, a game originally created by Christophe Andréani for the Atari ST, released in 1987. It was later ported to Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, DOS, Apple IIGS, and Game Boy. There's also the 1990 remaster, Bubble+, for the Amiga and Atari ST.

Heh, I've also recorded a longplay with the good and bad endings:

youtube.com/watch?v=gTZt...

Now the game is better documented online. Perhaps one day we can find the devs and interview them. I'm curious about the game's history.

[Amiga] Xeno Genesis - Longplay YouTube video by MP83

First made the map, now recorded a longplay:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTZt...

This is the end result of game overing almost 100 times and starting the game from the very beginning over and over again. If the game seems easy from the footage, trust me, it isn't. 😱 Trial-and-error gaming, yo!!

Recently an Amiga game called Xeno Genesis was dumped. It was developed by Demantoid Productions and published by CAT Computer Club in Denmark in 1992. I've now made complete maps to the game! (:

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This is a really solid game. A great showcase that MSX2 can do smooth scrolling.

Taito's Bubble Bobble is a great one and retains most (all?) secrets? Shame about not using FM music.

Contra was apparently outsourced to Bit2 to make. Weird that Konami didn"t make it by themselves. All weapon pickups are shit pretty much.

I have no idea what happened with this release. Taito seemed to have had big plans for it originally. It's interesting to see that FOUR programmers worked on this one.

I wonder what happened during the development of Rastan Saga for the MSX2. The box boasts about the game being on a 2M ROM cartridge, but over 600 tiles of graphics in it are actually unused. It also claims to have "a variety of new RPG elements", but the released game has none. 😒

Alley Cat! One of Bill Williams' great games. Will be checking this one out soon! (:

As for this game itself: I don't care too much about it myself, but it does have some nice illustrations in the manual, and I do like the cover art. Out of all of Casio games, I enjoy Koneko no Daibouken and The Stone of Wisdom the most. Neither game has any boss fights, though...

There's so many MSX games without proper scans, no matter how popular or common a game is. People mainly buy games to have them in their collections and are playing them occasionally. There's not many who bother scanning these things. I'd scan more myself, but I'm always low on money. 🫠

Hahah, every time when you buy a CIB copy of a MSX game, I'll be there to beg you to scan covers and manual, this being no exception. ;)

[MSX] Rotors - Longplay YouTube video by The MSX Channel

A longplay of Rotors (1984, MSX):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjHt...

It's a fun little action-puzzle game for 1 or 2 players (simultaneous). Developed by Hibiki Godai (program/music), Satoshi Uesaka (title/characters), and Mariko Uemura (graphics). The previous game was called Pairs (1983, MSX).

[MSX] Pairs - Longplay YouTube video by The MSX Channel

A longplay of Pairs (1983, MSX):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN3d...

It's a fun little action-puzzle game for 1 or 2 players (simultaneous). Developed by Hibiki Godai (program/music) and Satoshi Uesaka (graphics) of Thexder fame. The game got a sequel called Rotors (1984, MSX).

Ripped graphics from ASCII Corporation's MSX games, Pairs (1983) and Rotors (1984). Hibiki Godai of Thexder fame worked on these (programming+music), with graphics by Satoshi Uesaka (Pairs) and Mariko Uemura (Rotors).

I'm also fascinated by these fake screenshots used on most releases of Grog's Revenge. They're not of any of the released games. The game was released for the ColecoVision, MSX, and Commodore 64 (Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, BBC Micro, and ZX Spectrum versions were cancelled).