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1980, Game of the Year

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Conina on 09 September 2023
SvennoJ said:

I ended up writing my own Pac-Man on MSX with a twist that pills are ammo which you can fire at ghosts, instead of them running away. It was one of my first coding projects and I hadn't got into multi tasking yet, so everything paused while the bullet was flying until it either hit a ghost or wall. Drawing out all the animations on graph paper, to then convert to hexadecimal sprites was a lot of work.

Why did you chose an MSX as a home computer in the 1980s? Wasn't it quite exotic in Europe compared to Commodore (C64 and Amiga), Atari (400/800 and ST), Amstrad CPC and Sinclair ZX Spectrum or Apple II in the US?



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SvennoJ on 09 September 2023
Conina said:
SvennoJ said:

I ended up writing my own Pac-Man on MSX with a twist that pills are ammo which you can fire at ghosts, instead of them running away. It was one of my first coding projects and I hadn't got into multi tasking yet, so everything paused while the bullet was flying until it either hit a ghost or wall. Drawing out all the animations on graph paper, to then convert to hexadecimal sprites was a lot of work.

Why did you chose an MSX as a home computer in the 1980s? Wasn't it quite exotic in Europe compared to Commodore (C64 and Amiga), Atari (400/800 and ST), Amstrad CPC and Sinclair ZX Spectrum or Apple II in the US?

My dad worked for Philips at the time, he bought a Phillips made MSX for us. I was 10 at the time.




My nephews had C64 and later NES.



Conina on 09 September 2023

Cool, I wish I had family buying me computer/gaming hardware back then.