Barbarian The Duel - Head chopping classic in dev for the MSX

Last year we astounded the community with the announced release of Barbarian Plus, the ultimate in Amiga remasters of a classic game released in the late 80's as Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior; A game released for the C64 and later ported to other systems such as the Acorn, Amiga, Amstrad, Atari, Apple II, BBC Micro, MS-DOS and even the ZX Spectrum, as a great head chopping game with plenty of rolling heads to keep you busy. So why are we mentioning this game you might ask? Well there's good news for the MSX community as Barbarian The Duel has been announced via the MSXdev'18!

Barbarian Plus - Head chopping classic enhanced is finally here for the Amiga!

Well this came as a complete surprise considering we were told it wasn't going to be released until the weekend, but it looks as if the team behind ' Barbarian Plus ' have finally released it through Facebook! This game which we have featured countless times and a big preview available here , is an enhancement of a classic game with much better graphics, more colours, smooth animations, kick ass new arenas, blood splatters and much much more!

Barbarian Plus - Head chopping classic enhanced gets an early Amiga preview

Barbarian....One of my favourite games since I discovered games. I wasn't introduced to it like most heterosexual males my age, via their hormones and a titillating poster. Instead, it was one of the loose tapes that came with my second hand ZX Spectrum, and it got played to absolute death.

Barbarian+ - WIP enhanced version of a classic head chopping game!

Throughout this year we've been keeping you up to date with the work in progress enhancement of Barbarian, which is going to be called Barbarian+ and worked on by Ten Shu, Colin Vella and Simone Bernacchia for the Commodore Amiga. Well you'll be pleased to know this fabulous overhaul is going to be finished soon and thanks to James Brown who has uploaded a new video, we can see the first proper look of this upcoming release!