How to Find Recently Added or Updated MSX Games on MSX Games World

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MSX Games World surfaces new and revised entries directly on its homepage through two lists: Recently Added and Last Updates. If you want to see what just entered the database, scan Recently Added; if you want to see which existing entries have been touched most recently, scan Last Updates. Both lists sit on the front page, so no account or search query is needed to start browsing.

Recently Added vs. Last Updates: What Each List Shows

The two sections look similar but answer different questions.

Section What it tells you Best used for
Recently Added Titles that are new to the database Spotting software you haven't seen catalogued before
Last Updates Entries that have been revised or re-touched Checking whether an existing entry changed

In the site's own excerpt, several titles appear under both headings — for example Odyssey, Berzerk, Cue Brick, Yoomp!, Doom, Psy-Kongs - Attack of the Giant Gorillas, The Secret of Monkey Island, Niwatris, and YokoXevi. That overlap is a useful signal: a title showing up in both places has both entered the database and been worked on recently, which often means its entry is more complete than a brand-new one.

The Last Updates list also includes entries that don't appear in Recently Added, such as Kong ate my City, En busca de Mortadelo, and Uchotos City MSX. Those are revisions to existing records rather than new additions.

Step-by-Step: Tracking New and Updated Entries

  1. Open the homepage. The Recently Added and Last Updates lists are part of the front page content, not buried behind a menu.
  2. Read Recently Added first if your goal is discovery — this is the shortest path to titles new to the database.
  3. Read Last Updates second if you're following a specific title or want to know what changed. Compare it against Recently Added to spot entries that appear in both.
  4. Cross-check against Top Rating and Top Likes when you want a quality signal rather than a recency signal. These sections rank entries by community scores and likes, so a title can be old, recently updated, and highly rated at the same time.
  5. Revisit periodically. The site describes itself as "the forever growing MSX software database," and the update lists change as entries are added and revised.

Using Top Rating and Top Likes as a Second Filter

Recency tells you what's new, not what's good. The homepage's Top Rating and Top Likes sections give you the other axis.

Top Rating shows scored entries with vote counts, for example:

  • Aleste 2 — 88.8 (3 votes)
  • Penguin Adventure — 84.5 (1 vote)
  • Yie Ar Kung-Fu 2 - The Emperor Yie-Gah — 84.5 (1 vote)
  • Elevator Action — 84.5 (1 vote)
  • Knightmare Gold — 84.5 (1 vote)
  • Niwatris — 84.0 (2 votes)

Top Likes shows entries ranked by likes instead of scores, including Konami's Soccer, Lotus F3, Aleste, Castle Excellent, Knight Lore, Warroid, Lazy Jones, Bank Panic, Exerion, and EMU Editor de Músicas, each with 2–3 likes in the excerpt.

A practical workflow: check Recently Added for something unfamiliar, then check whether it also appears in Top Rating or Top Likes before deciding it's worth your time. Note that vote counts are small — a single vote can put a title near the top — so treat these as rough signals, not verdicts.

What Else the Homepage Exposes

Beyond the update and ranking lists, the page shows a Latest Comments feed. In the excerpt, comments include links to external posts and a note that a game was "made ONLY using MSX-BASIC," plus a long walkthrough for La Abadia del Crimen credited to Carlos Mesa for issue 42 of MSX Club magazine (July 1988). Comments like these often point to solutions, maps, and technical observations that the entry itself doesn't contain — useful when a recently added title has little documentation yet.

Common Snags

  • Overlap between the two lists can be confusing. A title in both Recently Added and Last Updates isn't a duplicate — it means the entry was added and then revised.
  • Small vote counts distort rankings. With 1–3 votes per title, Top Rating and Top Likes are indicative rather than authoritative.
  • Recency isn't quality. A newly added entry may be a bare record; a Last Updates entry may have gained maps, solutions, or corrections. Check the comments and the entry itself before assuming either list reflects completeness.
  • No pricing or login details are stated on the page, so don't assume anything about access or cost from these lists alone.