SONY MSX Games

Game Title: Championship Lode Runner
Game Type: Strategy
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: The game contains 50 challenging levels and is designed for expert players. First time players may find this game a little frustrating so you have been warned.

There is no level editor and you have to play through the levels in order. The game creators are not completely evil as they did provide a save-game option was provided, though you lose one life every time you were restored.

Game Title: Chase H.Q.
Game Type: Racing
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Your mission is to patrol the streets as an undercover agent and track down five criminals. Pay attention to the mission briefing before starting off. Your briefings will give you valuable information such as what car the suspects drive.

Avoid crashing in to other cars while you search for the suspect. Once you catch up to the other cars, bump into them until your car is no longer functional. All this must e done under a time limit so keep an eye on your time. However, once you've caught up with your suspect, you are granted more time.

Game Title: Choplifter!
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Chopper Command is a side-scrolling action/arcade game. You command of an attack chopper. Your mission is to go behind enemy lines and rescue 16 hostages per level.

To prevent you from rescuing the hostages, tanks and enemy aircraft will try to stop you and won't stop until you have rescued the hostages.

Game Title: Cloud Master
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: You have the ability to float on clouds and shoot small balls of energy at bad guys who fly at you from the left and right of the screen.

Collect powerups and visit the shops to upgrade your offensive and defensive powers. There are several stages all of which have their own bosses and mini bosses.

This is one of the only games ever made which features flying noodle bowls and bears with guns.

Game Title: Columns
Game Type: Strategy
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Columns is another Tetris copycat as it involves arranging falling blocks in such a way as to clear them.

Columns groups three same-size but varying colour blocks that must be arranged into sequences of three or more horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

Sequences of four or five count for double or triple points. The real trick is to setting up combos - where one line causes other blocks to drop so as to create other lines.

Game Title: Commando
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Another popular game from the 1980s.

Fight through several levels in this arcade conversion. Armed with only a standard rifle and a few grenades, take on the hordes of Nazis. Some are wandering around in the open while others have picked out hiding places, which you must approach from certain angles.

Use the trees, rivers and bridges when developing your combat tactics. Be sure to collect grenades and always have a few ready as they will become life savers at critical moments.

Game Title: Congo Bongo
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: This is a port of the popular jump n run arcade game. Your objective, should you choose to accept it, is to run, jump, and climb your way through a dangerous jungle while avoiding various animals and projectiles.

As a bonus, the game includes the introductory animation from the arcade game.

Game Title: Contra
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: A small meteorite hit the Galuga archipelago, some 20km northeast of New Zealand. Two years later, a terrorist group seized the island in preparation for an alien invasion.

The earth's marines sent two members of their elite Contra unit, Bill Rizer and Lance Bean, to neutralize the terrorists. Your mission is to take out all enemy forces on the island. Upgrading your weapons is key to your success.

Game Title: Daedalian Opus
Game Type: Strategy
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: You play Daedaleanopus and your mission is to solve puzzles that consist of placing shaped pieces into a space and completely filling the area with all the pieces in a Tetris kind of way.

Game Title: Decathalon
Game Type: Sports
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: The Activision Decathlon attempts to use the player's own physical endurance to simulate athletic performance. Players move their joysticks left and right to run, and hit the red button to perform actions such as vaulting or throwing the discus.

There are 10 different Olympics events including:
100-meter dash,
long jump,
shot put,
high jump,
400-meter race,
110-meter hurdles,
discus throw,
pole vault,
javelin throw, and
1500 meter race that takes several minutes to complete.

Game Title: Dig Dug
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Dig Dug is another Arcade port and is considered one of the top arcade games on the 1980s. So popular that the game is still being ported to generations 7 consoles.

Dig Dug is pretty much the same in concept as Pac-man, but instead of eating cookies while moving through a maze of hallways, Dig Dug has you digging you own maze of tunnels while avoiding creatures that want you dead.

The only weapon that you carry is an air pump, which you can use to inflate the monsters to the point where they explode. Furthermore, rocks are scattered throughout the earth, and you can use these rocks to squash them if you dig a tunnel directly under the rocks.

If the monsters do not find you for several seconds, they will eventually get turned into ghosts, which are able to walk through the earth and this is very bad! Oh, I forgot to mention, each successive level gets harder with more and faster creatures.

Game Title: Donkey Kong
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Released in the arcades in 1981, Donkey Kong became a smash hit as was soon ported over to all popular gaming platforms of the time. In fact, the game has become so popular that it is still being ported over to modern gaming platforms.

Mario must scale four different industrial levels: construction zone, cement factory, an elevator-themed level, and removing rivets from girders. Why you may ask, well, Mario must save the damsel in distress, Pauline, from the big ape before the timer runs out.

Once the rivets are removed from the final level, Donkey Kong falls, and the two lovers are reunited. From there, the levels start over at a higher difficulty.

Mario must dodge a constant stream of barrels, fireballs, and spring-weights. Use the hammer to destroy the barrels and fireballs. Gain bonuses by finding Pauline's hat, purse and umbrella.

Game Title: Double Dragon
Game Type: Fighting
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Double Dragon is set in post-apocalyptic New York.

Double Dragon is the story Billy and Jimmy Lee, twin brothers trained in the fighting style of Sou-Setsu-Ken. Together, they managed a small martial arts training school. One day, Billy's girlfriend, Marian, is kidnapped by the Black Warriors, led by Willy. As you can imagine, Billy and Jimmy set out to save Billy's girlfriend.

Using various techniques fight using punches, kicks and the elbow strike.

Game Title: Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: The Marian was rescued from the Shadow Boss by Billy & Jimmy Lee in the first Double Dragon game. However, this time she has been kidnapped and killed.

Your mission is simple, seek you revenge against the Shadow Boss.

Game Title: Duck Hunt
Game Type: Sports
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Duck Hunt became popular due tot he light gun it came with.

Every scene starts off with your faithful dog running into the bushes, scaring the ducks into the air. No more than one or two ducks will fly in to the air. Shoot them and get credit. Miss too many and you will not be permitted to the next level. As the rounds progress, the ducks begin flying faster and faster, and fewer misses are allowed.

Game Title: Elevator Action
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: You are Agent 17 (codename: "Otto"). Your mission is to secure all top secret documents from a security building and escape in the getaway car, located in the basement of the building.

Enemies spies are scattered throughout the 30-floor building and they have only one mission: execute Agent 17 at all costs. There are several ways in which Agent 17 can kill them:

* Shooting them with his gun.
* Kicking them by jumping onto them.
* Shooting a light on the ceiling while in an elevator, dropping the light onto one of them.
* Crushing them with an elevator.

Whenever a light has been dropped, the hallways will be dark for a short period of time, making the enemy spies harder to see. The same holds true for hallways that are already dark.

While Otto is in an elevator, he will have complete control of it by moving up or down. Agent 17 can still get killed if he's already in an elevator if a bullet's trajectory is aimed at it.. When Otto is not in an elevator, it will move from floor to floor automatically, even when enemy spies are in it. Otto is able to leap over the elevator gaps, but he must be as close to the edge as possible without falling off in order to make the jump safely. If there is an elevator cable in the way, however, it will block him, causing him to fall.

Just because the game is called Elevator Action doesn't mean that elevators are the only means of travel. There are also escalators which you can ride up or down, useful if you want to avoid gunfire and don't have time to jump.

Otto must go into the rooms with red doors to collect the top secret documents. If he tries to get to his car without getting all the documents, he cannot escape and must go back and collect the remaining documents. Once he has all the documents and drives away, he then proceeds to the next building.

If Otto takes too much time to collect the documents, the alarm will go off, and he will have trouble controlling the elevators, which will take time to react. Bad guys will be especially aggressive. The alarm doesn't go off when Otto loses a life, it only resets after finishing a building. Besides ducking, bad guys may also drop themselves and lay flat on the floor. It's virtually impossible for Otto to shoot bad guys when they do this. Also, Otto cannot duck when in an elevator.

Game Title: Elite
Game Type: Strategy
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Embark on a trading venture among the many star systems. To be safe, trade on razor-thin margins among in the safe systems, or in order to make a lot of money, take risks and trade with anarchic systems while watching out for pirates. Keep in mind that your ship does not have much in terms of defence.

Save on fuel costs by buying a fuel scoop and flying near the star. Don't get a bad rep as the police will come after you and then you will have to dodge more than just pirates. Stations are a good place to trade and upgrade your ship. Getting upgraded weapons and shields should be considered your highest priority.

Game Title: F-15 Strike Eagle
Game Type: Flight
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: F-15 Strike Eagle features 15 missions that fall within the F-15's flying envelope. Your missions take place in the Middle East and Asia theatres in the 1970s and 1980s. Use your machine guns, guided missiles and bombs at your disposal as directed in your mission briefings.

The game features three enemy aircraft and three types of enemy SAMs.

Game Title: F16 Fighting Falcon
Game Type: Flight
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: You command the F-16 Fighting Falcon in this carefully crafted simulation where you must take down all enemy jets.

Fight and fly through ten levels using your flying skill. Your jet is equipped with machine guns and two types of missiles. The number of missiles you have vary between each level.

Game Title: Fantasy Zone
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 8bit

Game Description: Fantasy Zone is a solar system consisting of eight brightly colored planets.

The system is under invasion by the evil Menons by using misappropriated foreign currency to build their forces.

Recover all of the coins and save the solar system. You need to destroy all of the creatures on each planet while collecting the lost coins. Each level has a boss that must be defeated before moving to the next level.

Use the part shops to purchase improvements including better weapons and faster engines.

Fantasy Zone is an arcade style shooter for one or two players.