Retro Gaming Australia

The Konix Multisystem was an ambitious British made console originally intended to go on sale in 1989, but never eventuated following years of delays and the death of its parent company. The 16-bit 8086 driven system essentially acted as a dashboard with a variety of peripherals (steering wheels, joysticks etc.) available. Unfortunately the combination of the company’s ambition to use floppy disks and media combined with the system’s low RAM doomed it in the eyes of most developers.

For many years, the only way you get could a taste for what the system was like was through some old VHS footage of the games. However now through the hard work of a programmer called Savoury Snax, Phil Bennett, Slipstream – the Konix Multisystem archive and legendary British programmer Jeff Minter, a Konix Multisystem emulator is now available.

Currently Slipstream has source code for two games: Robocod and Attack of the Mutant Camels 1989. Although the games are from different eras of the Konix Multisystem hardware (as it changed a lot in development), the fact that they are playable at all is simply amazing.

Via RetroCollect