Antarctic Adventure, created by Konami in 1983, puts the player in the flippers of Penta, a penguin racing across Antarctica dodging crevasses, seals, and blocks of ice as the screen scrolls forward at a constant clip. It was one of the MSX's first great original hits, at a time when the machine still lived largely off conversions, and it helped cement Konami as one of the computer's strongest labels. Its formula of a race against the clock studded with obstacles was popular enough to spawn sequels and ports to other systems, and today it's remembered as one of the genuinely MSX-born icons of the early '80s, with that simple charm of chasing your own best time.
This system doesn't run in the browser yet (Dreamcast, GameCube, PS2 and Xbox are on the way as web emulation matures). The dossier, media and community are already all yours.
If you liked this one
