On May 20th, ASCII started taking pre-orders on the new One Chip MSX. Within a week, 1000 devices were pre-ordered. It took almost 2 months before the 2000 milestone was reached.
On May 20th, ASCII opened up their Japanese One Chip MSX pre-order page and started taking orders on the new MSX computer from Japanese MSX fans.
Today, an important step in the MSX revival was taken.
On June 25th the Dutch MSX group MSX Club Groningen announced their first meeting was to be held on July 17th, 2005 in Wijkcentrum 'De Karre', Groningen.
What do Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom have in common? Well, chances you'll see someone walking around in an MSX T-Shirt in one of these countries have just increased quite a lot.
Amusement Center haver released Carry Lab's action game 'The Great Escape' (aka Large Desertion), an action game for MSX1 originally released in 1985, in their retro gaming service Projec
Manic Miner 3D
Paradum Games have released a single-level 3D remake of Software Projects's Manic Miner, demonstrating their 'Nudge 2' engine in action.