Volker Becker was one of Germans top programmer in the mid 80's homebrew scene. Games like Miraculus had been published in Magazines coming with arcade like action in printed listings.
Here is a compilation of his games which he send us to share with you.
It contains:
- Alien Attack (7 KB)
Start:RUN "alien.bas"
Fight against aliens.
Playable promo of Thunderbirds are Go. It's an adventure game with Moonsound sound.
Tokamoka MSX Collection
In the 80s and early 90s Timo Poikela created various software under the nickname Tokamoka in Finland. Some of them were released as program listings on the Finnish computer magazine, MikroBitti, while the rest never got any proper releases
BCF pushes the Tetris genre to its limits.
Turfy is an MSX card game for one or two players (two AI opponents are available for the former case) written by MRC user Uninteresting. It uses the standard 52-card deck.
This has been tested only on emulators so far.
The idea of each screen is to destroy all enemy pods and direct the laser beam into the receiver. To actually direct the beam you can use a mirrors by draging it over a screen.
Universe Unknown, final version. This shooter, heavily inspired by Konami's Gradius series, reached the second place in the MSXdev'05 competition.
Educational software to learn American topography and find general information
A port of a small strategy game made by norakomi.
Instructions:
send:
press send to send the vectroids.
the goal is to kill them all before they reach the end of the path.
auto:
press auto to automatically send new vectroids every level
towers:
place towers alongside the path to attack the vectroids.
Vectron is a game by Parallax Software (1989) and considered freeware.
In the package there is one .dsk files