Hi...
I didn't follow this story from the beginning, but from Laurens' message
and the subject, I get the impression that this is about MSX history and
the like...
To go in short... I was born in 1979 (as they say, I can't clearly
remember)... I was a very happy kid, often playing outside with friends
and so on...
This changed when at school I was confronted with the thing they called
'computer'. The letters 'MSX' were written on it, and the school gave
its pupils the possibility to take the MSX home in the weekends to play
games. Ofcourse, there weren't that many computers, but also there
weren't that many fans, so it wasn't such a big problem.
Anyway, my father got charmed with a game called 'King's Valley', and
his family decided to give him a MSX1 with taperecorder at his
birthday... That was 1989, if I remember correctly. Both my father and I
were interested in the phenomena 'MSX' and 'games' and when my
schoolteacher sold his MSX2-set (NMS 8255 with lots of other stuff) we
were the first ones to take a look... and buy it. This was in 1991.
Our game-madness continued. My favourite game-type turned out to be
RPG's, and as they were (and are) mainly developed in Japan, I also
developed some interest in Japanese, as most of these games weren't
translated and I desired to know what kind of storyline there was.
But well, gradually the Japanese MSX-companies stopped and therefore
also the flow of new Japanese games to the Netherlands ceesed to
exist...
Eventually, I had played enough games. I got contacts with the Dutch
MSX-scene (1992 if I'm right) and soon I worked by a club called
MSX-Code. The first MSX-fair I visited was Tilburg 1993. At that time, I
also became MSX-Code member... Eventually I would end up being
chief-editor of MSX-Code's diskmagazine Newsdisc and make some games on
my own with the GameBuilder, but let me not dig those nightmares up
again... (Ah well, nightmares, I had a lot of fun making them, but their
quality was... GameBuilder).
But I wanted to keep this story short (there has been published a
MSX-story of mine on various diskmagazines, e.g. FutureDisk and
Defender), so let me finish... In 1995 there were some troubles with
MSX-Code and I decided to leave the club (which, shortly afterwards,
disappeared). At that time I also worked together with Jan Wilmans and
Aaldert Dekker, two ML-programmers, and we decided to form the team
'Pigeonsoft' (this was a name with nostalgic value to me, as I also used
this name when I was just making shit in BASIC before entering
MSX-Code). Ofcourse, we needed more teammembers, and eventually Johnny
Hassink, Sven Neve and Robert Vroemisse entered the team as respectively
musician, graphic designer and musician/graphic designer. After all, we
found the name 'Pigeonsoft' not that charming, so we decided to change
the name to 'Sargon' and that's what we're still today... We started the
Defender-project, a diskmagazine on half-yearly basis and began lots of
games of which, sofar, none has been completed (snff...). We also made a
music demo (Twisted Reality) and some gametipsdisks (Guide through
Gameworld 1 and 2). Our first products to be released now are Defender 6
and Twisted Realtity 2.
Next to Sargon, I also was for two years editor of the magazine MSX-User
and I wrote now and then something for FutureDisk and some other
magazines (not that frequently, however).
My greatest fun with MSX is not the MSX itself anymore, but the scene
that uses it... For example, fairs, friends coming to drink a beer and
play pool, MSX-parties, etc... If I want to play games nowadays, I
mainly use my PlayStation or SNES... For playing games, I really reject
PC's, but they really come in handy when you want to do desktop
publishing or Internetting or so...
Oh, and about that Japanese language... I'm now studying Japanese, not
because now I really want to understand those games (but that's also
nice, ofcourse), but my interest came because of the games... I'm not
THAT fanatic...
Then my MSX hardware setup...
- MSX2 NMS8255
- MSX Turbo R ST
- Music Module
- Panasonic FM-Pac
- MoonSound
- External 512kB memory mapper
- Philips NMS1431 matrix printer
- Two Philips full-colour monitors
- Two Philips mouses
- Some old joysticks
- MT-Telcom modem, which crashed shortly before I went to Japan
Well, possibly I forget something, but well... These are the main
things...
So far my story (I guess...) !
Bye,
Rieks
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