Konami Antiques MSX Collection
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Konami Antiques MSX Collection is a series of compilations of MSX
MSX
MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation...

 computer games released by Konami
Konami
is a Japanese leading developer and publisher of numerous popular and strong-selling toys, trading cards, anime, tokusatsu, slot machines, arcade cabinets and video games...

 in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 for the Sony
Sony
, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....

 PlayStation and Sega Saturn
Sega Saturn
The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console that was first released by Sega on November 22, 1994 in Japan, May 11, 1995 in North America, and July 8, 1995 in Europe...

 between 1997 and 1998.

Releases

Konami Antiques MSX Collection Vol. 1 — 1997 — PlayStation
  • Antarctic Adventure
    Antarctic Adventure
    Antarctic Adventure, known in Japan as Kekkyoku Nankyoku Daibōken is a video game developed by Konami in 1983 for MSX, and later for video game consoles, such as NES...

  • Gradius
    Gradius
    The Gradius games, first introduced in 1985, make up a series of scrolling shooter video games published by Konami for a variety of portable, console and arcade platforms. In many games in the series, the player controls a ship known as the Vic Viper...

     aka Nemesis
  • Gofer no Yabō Episode II aka Nemesis 3
  • Hyper Sports 2
  • Konami's Boxing
  • Konami's Ping Pong
    Konami's Ping Pong
    Konami's Ping Pong is a sports arcade game created in 1985 by Konami. The game is noted as the first video game to accurately reflect the gameplay of table tennis, as opposed to earlier over-simplifications like Pong...

  • Mopiranger
  • Road Fighter
    Road Fighter
    is a car-based arcade game developed by Konami and released in 1984. It also was the first car racing game from Konami. The goal is to reach the finish line within the stages without running out of time, hitting other cars or running out of fuel...

  • Sky Jaguar
  • Yie Ar Kung-Fu


Konami Antiques MSX Collection Vol. 2
— 1998 — PlayStation
  • Athletic land
  • Gradius 2 aka Nemesis 2
  • Knightmare
  • Konami's Golf
  • Konami's Billard
  • Hyper Sports 3
  • Magical Tree
  • Super Cobra
    Super Cobra
    Super Cobra is a 1981 horizontally-scrolling shooter, arcade game. It was developed by Konami from the engine of the popular Scramble , and manufactured and distributed by Stern in the U.S..-Gameplay:...

  • TwinBee
    Twinbee
    is a video game series composed primarily of cartoon-themed vertical-scrolling shoot-'em-up games produced by Konami that were released primarily in Japan. The series originated as a coin-operated video game simply titled TwinBee in , which was followed by several home versions and sequels...

  • Yie Ar Kung-Fu II
    Yie Ar Kung-Fu II
    is a computer game where the main character fights martial arts masters and is a sequel to Yie Ar Kung-Fu. This sequel was released for the Commodore 64, MSX, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, Acorn Electron and Thomson TO7-70 home computer systems and featured a different approach to the game...



Konami Antiques MSX Collection Vol. 3 — 1998 — PlayStation
  • Comic Bakery
    Comic Bakery
    Comic Bakery is a computer game for the MSX, made by Konami in 1984 and later ported to Commodore 64 by Imagine Software.-Summary:The music and sound effects for the C64 version were made by Martin Galway, a well-known musician of computer game music. As it was normal for the machine at the time,...

  • King's Valley
    King's Valley
    King’s Valley is a platform/maze game from Konami, released for the MSX computer and MS-DOS in 1985. The game plays is like Lode Runner except it takes place in pyramids instead of egyptian ruins. As an intrepid adventurer, the player's goal is to collect various gems, while evading angry mummies...

  • Konami's Tennis
  • Konami's Soccer
  • Konami Rally
  • Parodius
    Parodius
    , or just Parodius, is a scrolling shooter video game developed by Konami for the MSX computer and was released in Japan. The game is notable for being the first title in the Parodius series, although it is often confused with its sequel Parodius Da! -Shinwa kara Owarai e- in that respect, which...

  • Penguin Adventure
    Penguin Adventure
    is an action-adventure platform video game released by Konami in 1986. It is a sequel to Antarctic Adventure and has the distinction of being the first game that game designer Hideo Kojima worked on; he was an assistant designer. It has been acclaimed as one of the best MSX action games for its...

  • Pippols
  • Salamander
  • Time Pilot
    Time Pilot
    Time Pilot is a multi-directional scrolling shooter and free-roaming aerial combat arcade game designed by Yoshiki Okamoto, released by Konami in 1982, and distributed in the United States by Centuri...



Konami Antiques MSX Collection Ultra Pack
— 1998 — Sega Saturn
Sega Saturn
The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console that was first released by Sega on November 22, 1994 in Japan, May 11, 1995 in North America, and July 8, 1995 in Europe...



The SEGA one, considered the best by fans of the MSX games, included all three of the Playstation games on one Disc.
YouTube video Part 1, showing the intro and a small demo of the various games.
YouTube video Part 2 of the video.

Included games:
  • Konami's Boxing
  • Konami's Ping Pong
  • Hyper Sports 2
  • Hyper Sports 3
  • Konami's Golf
  • Konami's Billiards
  • Konami's Tennis
  • Konami's Soccer
  • Konami Rally
  • Road Fighter
  • Sky Jaguar
  • Gradius (aka Nemesis)
  • Gradius 2 (aka Nemesis 2)
  • Gradius 2: Gofer's Ambition Episode II (aka Nemesis 3)
  • Super Cobra
  • TwinBee
  • Time Pilot
  • Parodius
  • Salamander
  • Mopiranger
  • Antarctic Adventure
  • Penguin Adventure
  • Yie Ar KUNG-FU
  • Yie Ar KUNG-FU 2
  • Athletic Land
  • Magical Tree
  • Knightmare
  • Comic Bakery
  • Pippols
  • King's Valley
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