Somehow got sucked into a rabbit hole this weekend while looking up information on Konami's Gradius games for the MSX and ended up discovering Matranet, a company creating and seeling new MSX games as well as books and other stuff. They seem to be the MSX equivalent of Atari Age.

I only have the YouTube clips to go off of but I'm shocked the how high quality of the MSX games for sale. Most of them seem to be original adventure games and compared to Atari Age or RetroUsb there are relatively few ports (although I'm not really up on my 1980's European PC culture so I may be wrong about that). It's a testament to the MSX's popularity that such passionate fans exist to produce this stuff.

Here's some of the stand outs:

Ink : Exxon Surfing - This is probably the prettiest looking game. It's a really simply game, the kind I wish I'd tried creating as a kid when all I had at my disposal was Q-Basic.

Zombie Near - What I like about this one is that it has the split screen concept from Spy vs Spy, but instead is a cooperative adventure game where both players work together to infiltrate a complex of some kind, with each player being able to move independently.

Mecha 8 - Looks too Euroshmup for my taste, but its technically impressive how nicely everything scrolls. Its interesting that in some levels the Mecha is walking, Knightmare style.

Matranet also has created a cool looking book called the "Legend of Konami" which details Konami's history on the MSX computer. It's great to see people preserving such a great time in videogame history.