love the back ground music the music from escape from new york . BTW are you pregnant ? you kind of look like it in this video BTW as always i love your vids and if you are pregnant congratulation.
MSX was huge here in Brazil. They were officially released here with the Sharp's Hotbit and Gradient's Expert variants. Sadly the MSX2 never arrived in our market. :(
9:34 that slot divider is for inserting more than one cartridge at once so in addition to a game cartridge you can install things like ram expansions, disk interfaces, audio modules, etc. all at once.
They have fan translations. Emulation is the only way to play it. I don't think they make everdrives for msx computers but I'm sure somewhere out in the deepest darkest parts in the internet, there is a guide to latch it into the msx computer. Its fun on the Chinese Linux based open handhelds. However yeah a pc/laptop, and phones. It's going to be amazing on the upcoming steam deck, it's going to be fun playing AAA games on medium settings on the go. The Emulation is going to be incredible since Linux can run retroarch, touch screen, track pad. Can't wait to try out fps games on it from ps3 Emulation, even if it sucks you can still hook up a kb/m. Lol I feel like an ad. I don't know how they got the price so low on it. I can edit/record video and music on the go with it. Completely will change my mobile studio set up, combined with a laptop tho...however touch screen editing with decent specs on my phone had been a game changer.
Once again, just when I thought I knew it all you pull out something unknown to most of us out of the blue. I especially like learning about PCs like the ZX Spectrum, C64, and MSX. Unbeknownst to me, MSX had a console version in Korea. It's always great to learn about these early 80s PCs because they were not very popular State side, but I am very aware that they were mega popular around the rest of the world. So I'd love to learn more. Very nice info indeed LD.
Fun fact: the C64 version of Castlevania was directly ported from the MSX, and you can save your progress on the disc. After discovering this I realised that they could have let you save your progress in basically any C64 game, since every C64 owner had at least one type of rewritable media available, either be floppy discs or cassettes, but for some reason almost no game let you do it, what a waste.
Just found out about you, Lady. Three videos in, and I'm impressed. I've called myself a collector for 10 years, and you have shown me things I never knew existed. Well done! Cheers! (Or whatever an Amarican bloke should say to mean Thanks!)
Thanks for bringing us these great stories of obscure video game history! I’m American and I’m with you, don’t need to hear about the crash of 1983 ever again lol
Hell yeah! this brought back so many memories. I had my earliest gaming memories with MSX that my brother had in late 80'. It also has my all time favorite game called Knightmare 2: The Maze of Galious, such an awesome game.🥰
These videos are awesome, I love learning about new hardware and how licensing of IPs was different since Nintendo couldn't use the same IP laws. There is like a whole other level when it comes to lost media and game consoles from places besides US/PAL/JPN regions and that's just so cool.
OMG Castlequest for NES was such a great memory of playing video games with my dad and I had NO clue it came out for msx. Lady decade, you are awesome!
The MSX is a fascinating system, plus a very cool library. Funny to see so many copycat titles, plus ported to other later systems. Konami had a huge investment, with Haunted Castle, Gradius, Twinbee, Contra, etc.. Plus the sound quality was amazing Excellent video
I completely agree with you and I find myself at odds with what she said about the Microsoft vs. Sony console wars. I grew up during the 8-bit/16-bit wars. I was an oddity back then as I loved and played both platforms. I had (still have) a Sega Genesis/Sega CD and Snes pretty much from the time they hit the market...well first year. I'm the same way today as I fly both consoles the Xbox and PlayStation flags. Having said that I believe the 7th (Xbox 360 vs PS3) generation was every bit as good as the 4th generation (Genesis vs Snes). The competition was absolutely fierce, they both had excellent exclusives, and their hardware was vastly different. The problem everyone seems to be having is with the 8th generation by itself. It was the most anemic and boring console cycle we have ever witnessed before in gaming. Sony was very much on but Microsoft didn't bother to show up until the release of the Xbox One X...by then it was too late. Not to mention the base 8th generation machines were extremely weak at launch. Thankfully, the 9th generation (Series X and PS5) are not only very powerful but both companies cane to play. The Series X and PS5 are the best built consoles I have ever had the pleasure of owning. The quality is almost otherworldly and the games are already starting at an insanely high watermark. I believe that we are on the cusp of a resurgence of sorts. A new golden age led by competition between the two juggernauts of gaming.
Fascinating story, given the large amount of cartridge software for the MSX I did wonder if there was ever a console version. Yes, the US Video game crash gets a lot of press, mostly unwarranted. Here in the UK, we had a mass die off of computer manufacturers, Dragon, Oric Camputers, and a few others just curled their toes up and snuffed it around 84/85. A Saturated market seemed to collapse leaving the cheap end Sinclair, The better but more expensive Commodore 64, the education focused BBC, and somehow the Amstrad CPC range arrived in that time to became a success (and Atari chugging along with the excellent XL line). Then you had late entries like the Enterprise and the Memotech MTX that were practically dead on arrival. MSX seemed to thrive in markets that had not developed yet to the point that they became saturated. Commodore with the 64 seemed to do OK everywhere.
I’ve never seen a Daewoo car, but the video says that’s what I should know them for in the west. I’ve seen their electronics plenty, however they’re always considered a ‘discount’ brand.
@@EnygmaRecords I haven’t seen a Daewoo car either, though my father has talked about them and said that they are pieces of shit and I guess they were more prevalent in the past than they are now. I’ve never seen their electronics though. Since I’m a firearm enthusiast as well aside from being a retro nerd, I am familiar with their rifles like the K1 rifle which used to be imported into the US civilian market in the ‘90s and I think in the ‘80s and 2000s as well. Hell, you can see the rooftop Koreans use some to defend their businesses during the LA riots back in 1992 if you are familiar with them. Apparently I think the Daewoo rifles are actually decent unlike the cars and the electronics.
@@EnygmaRecords may I ask if you live in the US? Daewoo are everywhere in Europe. Only reason I could think of why they could possibly be absent in America is because you seem to only have really big cars there and most Daewoos are normal size xx My understanding is that in the US, big cars are the norm because petrol and diesel are much much cheaper and the vast majority of towns and cities don't have the same layouts as Europe. This is because our roads and towns were essentially designed by the Romans and were alright for horses and carts lol but massive cars don't fit!
@@LadyDecade Yes, I do live in the US - that's exactly right! I'm rather used to people referring to the US as 'the west', however the term seems to apply to Europe as well (perhaps even more so than the US). While we do have a number of large cars here, compact cars have also been popular for as long as I can remember. Typically they will be Japanese brands, though domestic brands such as Ford and Chevrolet also make compact cars. Daewoo seems to be absent from our car market, though I'm sure there must be some imports scattered about if it's popular in Europe.
Legit playing games 30 years. Never heard of this one. Interesting how convoluted this world can be. Thanks for shedding light on some dark history for me 🌞
Back then it was convoluted, since at least the first Playstation it's become pretty standarized around the world. Sony, MIcrosoft, Nintendo, and Vale on the PC. And that's it.
wow I'm early.... might as well say i like your videos much entertaing than others yt documenters. Idk must be how you present yourself. Thanks for making my lunch breaks more entertaining!
The MSX in the early 80s was my first computer (Mitsubishi ML-F80) Great memories of playing games such as Blagger, Chuckie Egg, Footballer of the Year, Eric and the Floaters and Shark Hunter. When your character in Shark Hunter died I always cried at the sight of the wife and child leaving home 😭
Thank you. This was hugely educational; I had no idea about this system. Also, props for throwing shade on the usual US/Nintendo centric gaming history that’s usually trotted out as the be all and end all of gaming worldwide.
Incredible story, congrats for the video indeed! Your channel is really being helpful to enlighten the videogame history out of the radar of so-called official history, too much North-American centric. Hats off to you from Brazil! (A distant witness of the MSX and an owner of a NES clone, Top Game, in my teens...)
I noticed your Evercade is behind you in some of the shots. Maybe after the VS comes out you can give us some history behind that company and its new console. That would be fun.
LOVING THESE VIDEOS! You tell us about the best obscure hardware we never knew existed. Now, I wanna get hold of some of them if I can. Also, thanks for crediting me here!
Wow. I had no idea MSX was related to Microsoft. Great work. You’ve had some really interesting videos lately. Great stuff for sure. Your husband sure has his hands full trying to keep up with you. Lol I hope all is well across the pond. Have a great weekend.
Being in Asia, majority of the kids here grew up with Famicom instead of Atari. The 2600 was sold here but was prohibitively expensive. When the videogame industry crashed in NA, we didn't feel it as we were busy with the Famicom.
I had a Toshiba MSX in the 80s and loved it. We had a PC as well, but the msx was used by me and my younger brother more as the pc was for my fathers work. Everyone else had spectrums or if not probably an amstrad cpc or c64.
Nintendo did a powerful case study on what to do with a declining to stagnating growth market. Their fixes to the market created a new market share and growth to what video gaming could become. Stuff like this is interesting. Cause Nintendo saw that the decline in the adoption of video games was due to the saturation of subpar content. Hence the Nintendo quality seal. Their teams are really good at turning an entire market around as seen with their consumer cyclicals. They realized that they could take market share just by fixing the problems and they did reinvigorate the stagnation that was in the video game market. Really interesting in a business sense.
I still have the Philips NMS 8250 MSX2 computer in storage which I wore out back in the day, hah... Love the MSX system, with some really cool games. Metal Gear is the obvious example, but also lesser known games like Alpha Roid, Andorogynus, Rollerball and Payload. Ah, the good old days...
Team Neo had recently released the Zemmix Super Mini. A mini console version of the Zemmix Super V which is a consolized MSX2 computer. Unlike the Zemmix Mini, the Zemmix Super Mini will have 2,000 units made instead of 500 units.
Honestly, up until several months back I thought I was familiar with pretty much every brand name and obscure gaming console. I was wrong once I accidently came upon your channel. I am 44 and have seen A LOT of consoles and once I turned 40 I THOUGHT I knew about 90% of them, well the jokes on me 😂
The thumbnail needs the MSX/Zemmix era-appropriate Microsoft logo, the 1982-1987 version where Microsoft is in all caps and the first O has all those lines across it (possibly representing scanlines).
This is very interesting. In addition Samsung distributed (under their own branding through a licence with Nintendo), NES and SNES consoles in South Korea but they had a totally different name. Also who remembers when Kjonami changed their name when they went outside Japan. There was a few years when they were still branded as : Kjonami (the proper name) but then rebranded as KONAMI.
The MSX Zemmix was not strictly Microsoft, it was done by ASCII, which at the time was the Japanese arm of Microsoft, Micro$oft fell out with ASCII soon after the MSX2 introduction. Very sad story really
I grew up with the MSX, it‘s practically my childhood, being the very first computer to adapt Arabic writing it got very popular here in the middle east, if you wanna know more about it feel free to ask.
I think that SpectraVideo computers came out before MSX, and in fact inspired the MSX specifications. But the original SpectraVideo computers weren't quite (forwards) compatible with MSX, so they made later models conform to MSX compatiblity. Or something like that. Another system that was almost-but-not-quite MSX was the ColecoVision. Like many other game consoles at the time, the ColecoVision promised to be working on a computer expansion. Unlike almost all of the others, Coleco actually delivered. The Coleco Adam was not very successful, but it wasn't too bad (albeit here in the USA the use of tape drives was seen as very backwards). But of course, ColecoVision had nothing to do with Microsoft so whatever.
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Evern... you must be a Geordie 🤔
Thanks for another great review to go with my cuppa. How's big daddy tophat and the kids?
love the back ground music the music from escape from new york . BTW are you pregnant ? you kind of look like it in this video BTW as always i love your vids and if you are pregnant congratulation.
MSX was huge here in Brazil. They were officially released here with the Sharp's Hotbit and Gradient's Expert variants. Sadly the MSX2 never arrived in our market. :(
@@tenbob1972 Maaaan!!!!! Never ask this to a woman!!!!
I watch a lot of game collectors/ historians on UA-cam, and Lady, you come up with some of the most obscure stuff I didn't even know existed. Kudos.
Yes! I was just thinking the same thing! Just subbed today
Same, I really learned many things... And you discover new nostalgic video footages. + like.
Multi Dimensional Video Game Time Goddess
I agreed.
She certainly does! I've learned things I didn't know about from seeing her vids as well.
9:34 that slot divider is for inserting more than one cartridge at once so in addition to a game cartridge you can install things like ram expansions, disk interfaces, audio modules, etc. all at once.
The MSX was my first computer, I own 5 of them now, I know nearly all of them, but I never knew they had done an MSX console. Thank you.
I always wanted to play the Metal Gear games on the MSX computers. Hoping that some day I can.
Yeah that would be great. Emulators are good and all, but it doesn't beat the real thing ever. Closest is the rg351m/p
Use a fpga
wow dude I never expected to find you here, lol cheers Tip!
Closest I ever got were the official translations on the MGS3:Subsistence edition.
They have fan translations. Emulation is the only way to play it. I don't think they make everdrives for msx computers but I'm sure somewhere out in the deepest darkest parts in the internet, there is a guide to latch it into the msx computer. Its fun on the Chinese Linux based open handhelds. However yeah a pc/laptop, and phones. It's going to be amazing on the upcoming steam deck, it's going to be fun playing AAA games on medium settings on the go. The Emulation is going to be incredible since Linux can run retroarch, touch screen, track pad. Can't wait to try out fps games on it from ps3 Emulation, even if it sucks you can still hook up a kb/m. Lol I feel like an ad. I don't know how they got the price so low on it. I can edit/record video and music on the go with it. Completely will change my mobile studio set up, combined with a laptop tho...however touch screen editing with decent specs on my phone had been a game changer.
This is the first time I heard ASCII pronounced as each letter instead of ‘ask-e’
"Daewoo" is also pronounced pretty funny here.
This is the first time I've heard Konami pronounced that way.
@@Dec4AllTimeAlways Yep, "ask-e" is definitely correct. Then again, I'm sure she'd thing the same of us saying "S-N-E-S."
This was great. It's rare to see something so obscure covered so well. This video was a real treat.
Props for pronouncing “Daewoo” correctly, unlike most retro youtubers!
Shame for ascii pronunciation
I was impressed with that too.
@@johndavis5891 s t f u.
That’s only the British pronunciation. American and original Korean pronunciation pronounce the “W” instead of making it silent.
@@Nether2342 No, it’s silent in the original Korean.
Once again, just when I thought I knew it all you pull out something unknown to most of us out of the blue. I especially like learning about PCs like the ZX Spectrum, C64, and MSX. Unbeknownst to me, MSX had a console version in Korea. It's always great to learn about these early 80s PCs because they were not very popular State side, but I am very aware that they were mega popular around the rest of the world. So I'd love to learn more. Very nice info indeed LD.
I want one of those mini’s.
Fun fact: the C64 version of Castlevania was directly ported from the MSX, and you can save your progress on the disc.
After discovering this I realised that they could have let you save your progress in basically any C64 game, since every C64 owner had at least one type of rewritable media available, either be floppy discs or cassettes, but for some reason almost no game let you do it, what a waste.
Just found out about you, Lady. Three videos in, and I'm impressed. I've called myself a collector for 10 years, and you have shown me things I never knew existed. Well done! Cheers! (Or whatever an Amarican bloke should say to mean Thanks!)
I’ve been loving this series! So interesting to find about gaming across the world and how they adopted (or adapted) the formats of the 1980’s!
Thanks for bringing us these great stories of obscure video game history! I’m American and I’m with you, don’t need to hear about the crash of 1983 ever again lol
Hell yeah! this brought back so many memories. I had my earliest gaming memories with MSX that my brother had in late 80'. It also has my all time favorite game called Knightmare 2: The Maze of Galious, such an awesome game.🥰
These videos are awesome, I love learning about new hardware and how licensing of IPs was different since Nintendo couldn't use the same IP laws. There is like a whole other level when it comes to lost media and game consoles from places besides US/PAL/JPN regions and that's just so cool.
OMG Castlequest for NES was such a great memory of playing video games with my dad and I had NO clue it came out for msx. Lady decade, you are awesome!
How "awesome!" is she?
Enough for you to donate or support her work in Patreon?
The MSX is a fascinating system, plus a very cool library. Funny to see so many copycat titles, plus ported to other later systems. Konami had a huge investment, with Haunted Castle, Gradius, Twinbee, Contra, etc..
Plus the sound quality was amazing
Excellent video
I agree. There were some amazing games on the MSX and MSX 2. I’d love to get my hands on one of those mini’s.
Can't believe the model is called CPC (51) and the ads for it have a crocodile in it, much like the Amstrad CPC!
Awesome video! Very entertaining and full of cool info!
Really do miss the golden days of the console wars, that being said I still have the TIME OF MY LIFE with the games we get these days!!!..
I completely agree with you and I find myself at odds with what she said about the Microsoft vs. Sony console wars. I grew up during the 8-bit/16-bit wars. I was an oddity back then as I loved and played both platforms. I had (still have) a Sega Genesis/Sega CD and Snes pretty much from the time they hit the market...well first year. I'm the same way today as I fly both consoles the Xbox and PlayStation flags.
Having said that I believe the 7th (Xbox 360 vs PS3) generation was every bit as good as the 4th generation (Genesis vs Snes). The competition was absolutely fierce, they both had excellent exclusives, and their hardware was vastly different. The problem everyone seems to be having is with the 8th generation by itself. It was the most anemic and boring console cycle we have ever witnessed before in gaming. Sony was very much on but Microsoft didn't bother to show up until the release of the Xbox One X...by then it was too late. Not to mention the base 8th generation machines were extremely weak at launch.
Thankfully, the 9th generation (Series X and PS5) are not only very powerful but both companies cane to play. The Series X and PS5 are the best built consoles I have ever had the pleasure of owning. The quality is almost otherworldly and the games are already starting at an insanely high watermark. I believe that we are on the cusp of a resurgence of sorts. A new golden age led by competition between the two juggernauts of gaming.
Very interesting & well made video. It’s nice to have discovered your channel 👍🕹️
You been showing up on my UA-cam feed lately.
Watched about 5 or so videos.
Like how you review things.
I subbed
Amazing. Growing up in the US, I never heard of this system until now. What a unique item of retro gaming history. Thanks for this.
Fascinating story, given the large amount of cartridge software for the MSX I did wonder if there was ever a console version.
Yes, the US Video game crash gets a lot of press, mostly unwarranted.
Here in the UK, we had a mass die off of computer manufacturers, Dragon, Oric Camputers, and a few others just curled their toes up and snuffed it around 84/85. A Saturated market seemed to collapse leaving the cheap end Sinclair, The better but more expensive Commodore 64, the education focused BBC, and somehow the Amstrad CPC range arrived in that time to became a success (and Atari chugging along with the excellent XL line). Then you had late entries like the Enterprise and the Memotech MTX that were practically dead on arrival.
MSX seemed to thrive in markets that had not developed yet to the point that they became saturated. Commodore with the 64 seemed to do OK everywhere.
I learn something new with every one of your videos. Keep up the good work!
Daewoo makes like literally everything, from cars, to computers/electronics, to rifles and other weapons, the list goes on.
I’ve never seen a Daewoo car, but the video says that’s what I should know them for in the west. I’ve seen their electronics plenty, however they’re always considered a ‘discount’ brand.
@@EnygmaRecords I haven’t seen a Daewoo car either, though my father has talked about them and said that they are pieces of shit and I guess they were more prevalent in the past than they are now. I’ve never seen their electronics though. Since I’m a firearm enthusiast as well aside from being a retro nerd, I am familiar with their rifles like the K1 rifle which used to be imported into the US civilian market in the ‘90s and I think in the ‘80s and 2000s as well. Hell, you can see the rooftop Koreans use some to defend their businesses during the LA riots back in 1992 if you are familiar with them. Apparently I think the Daewoo rifles are actually decent unlike the cars and the electronics.
@@EnygmaRecords may I ask if you live in the US? Daewoo are everywhere in Europe. Only reason I could think of why they could possibly be absent in America is because you seem to only have really big cars there and most Daewoos are normal size xx
My understanding is that in the US, big cars are the norm because petrol and diesel are much much cheaper and the vast majority of towns and cities don't have the same layouts as Europe. This is because our roads and towns were essentially designed by the Romans and were alright for horses and carts lol but massive cars don't fit!
@@LadyDecade Yes, I do live in the US - that's exactly right! I'm rather used to people referring to the US as 'the west', however the term seems to apply to Europe as well (perhaps even more so than the US).
While we do have a number of large cars here, compact cars have also been popular for as long as I can remember. Typically they will be Japanese brands, though domestic brands such as Ford and Chevrolet also make compact cars. Daewoo seems to be absent from our car market, though I'm sure there must be some imports scattered about if it's popular in Europe.
I live in US and I've seen a hand full of them in the state of Louisiana, a guy I played college baseball with had one, I think it was a lanos
Love your content Ms Decade...
Lady Decade The New UA-cam Gaming Sleuth 🕵️♀️.
hey watch that mouth
@@omegarugal9283 Sleuth not that other word. I would never call her that or any other derogatory comment.
Keep it up. New favorite channel!
The design of the Daewoo Zemmix Console looks quite nice!
These vids are always so interesting. thanks for the content.
Legit playing games 30 years. Never heard of this one. Interesting how convoluted this world can be. Thanks for shedding light on some dark history for me 🌞
Glad you enjoyed it!
Back then it was convoluted, since at least the first Playstation it's become pretty standarized around the world. Sony, MIcrosoft, Nintendo, and Vale on the PC. And that's it.
Again, great video! Never knew of these consoles. Keep up the good work!
wow I'm early.... might as well say i like your videos much entertaing than others yt documenters. Idk must be how you present yourself. Thanks for making my lunch breaks more entertaining!
Im starting to like your new channel girl, cheers from USA, keep it up, love your attitude!
Fantastic video!
Fantastic channel
Thank a Lady D!! 🤗
So professional your work !👏👏
Amazing video and props for the Escape From New York chiptune!
Thats were it from! Thanks
The information on this channel 10/10
The MSX in the early 80s was my first computer (Mitsubishi ML-F80)
Great memories of playing games such as Blagger, Chuckie Egg, Footballer of the Year, Eric and the Floaters and Shark Hunter.
When your character in Shark Hunter died I always cried at the sight of the wife and child leaving home 😭
Thank you. This was hugely educational; I had no idea about this system. Also, props for throwing shade on the usual US/Nintendo centric gaming history that’s usually trotted out as the be all and end all of gaming worldwide.
Incredible story, congrats for the video indeed! Your channel is really being helpful to enlighten the videogame history out of the radar of so-called official history, too much North-American centric. Hats off to you from Brazil! (A distant witness of the MSX and an owner of a NES clone, Top Game, in my teens...)
I noticed your Evercade is behind you in some of the shots. Maybe after the VS comes out you can give us some history behind that company and its new console. That would be fun.
Another brilliant piece
Thanks for this video. It is the 1st time I have heard of this.
This channel brings back a lot of good memories (half of my childhood memories are video games, haha)
Lady Decade is putting the Obscure Section back on the map and its just too awesome. Love the vids, keep em coming .
LOVING THESE VIDEOS! You tell us about the best obscure hardware we never knew existed. Now, I wanna get hold of some of them if I can. Also, thanks for crediting me here!
awesome video….. 👍👍 i love learning the history of different regions lots of interesting stuff
You have the best videos!
Keep up with your nice vibe !!!
The lady and her mister produce some seriously binge-able content
Here in Brazil, it was good to have MSX or MSX 2, until there was SNES and Sega Mega Drive.
Loved the "Escape from New York" theme music at the beginning...
Is this a Mandela effect? I'm 43 and this is the first time I've heard of msx or any of the msx systems. Mind blown🤯
I love these videos on obscure consoles. Do you do your own editing Lady?
No, my editing is done by Exploding Music Syndrome xx
@@LadyDecade they do a very good job.
It's very impressive the global perespctive you take cause it must be difficult to research, and it's very much appreciated too
You know top hat personally? You both make brilliant videos!
I think they are 'together' so to speak :-)
I first heard about MSX on the Game Sack channel, and they mostly covered the games so it was nice to get the full history of the platform!
Lady, great video!
Wow. I had no idea MSX was related to Microsoft. Great work. You’ve had some really interesting videos lately. Great stuff for sure. Your husband sure has his hands full trying to keep up with you. Lol I hope all is well across the pond. Have a great weekend.
Microsoft’s first big screwup besides Commodore licensing of Microsoft Basic for a flat out fee of 25K! 😃
Well researched, not sure how you continue to find things that are this obscure. Keep up the benevolent work 😃
More to come!
Amazing channel, congratulations. look at the Double Dragon abobo's face! 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
I am impressed. I have lived in Korea for almost a decade but I have never heard of it before.
Never heard of this! Thank you! So interesting.
Oh snap new lady D!
MSX was my first experience with video games. The games I played on it are very special to me.
Never heard of this...crazy. cool vid.
Very Awsome vid of the MSX
Even Yamaha did a MSX computer. It featured a FM synthesis synth in addition to the standard YM chip. :)
Being in Asia, majority of the kids here grew up with Famicom instead of Atari. The 2600 was sold here but was prohibitively expensive. When the videogame industry crashed in NA, we didn't feel it as we were busy with the Famicom.
I had a Toshiba MSX in the 80s and loved it. We had a PC as well, but the msx was used by me and my younger brother more as the pc was for my fathers work. Everyone else had spectrums or if not probably an amstrad cpc or c64.
Entertaining and really informative.love to know what some of this kit is worth nowadays.
Nice goldstar 3do cameo. Brief but nice. Love those LG CRTs
Nintendo did a powerful case study on what to do with a declining to stagnating growth market. Their fixes to the market created a new market share and growth to what video gaming could become. Stuff like this is interesting. Cause Nintendo saw that the decline in the adoption of video games was due to the saturation of subpar content. Hence the Nintendo quality seal. Their teams are really good at turning an entire market around as seen with their consumer cyclicals. They realized that they could take market share just by fixing the problems and they did reinvigorate the stagnation that was in the video game market. Really interesting in a business sense.
0:19 When you said "But", I immediately thought you were about to say Guru Larry's "Heeellllllllooooooo, you"
I still have the Philips NMS 8250 MSX2 computer in storage which I wore out back in the day, hah... Love the MSX system, with some really cool games. Metal Gear is the obvious example, but also lesser known games like Alpha Roid, Andorogynus, Rollerball and Payload. Ah, the good old days...
She just makes things sound so damn official. She's a professional videogame journalist.
Awsome video can't wait for the next
its been 20 years. . . thats amazzzing. . . 20!
This is some top quality short documentary, rly had very little clue of this console war on south korea, pretty cool stuff. Keep up the great work!
You have an amazing Chanel
Team Neo had recently released the Zemmix Super Mini. A mini console version of the Zemmix Super V which is a consolized MSX2 computer. Unlike the Zemmix Mini, the Zemmix Super Mini will have 2,000 units made instead of 500 units.
Honestly, up until several months back I thought I was familiar with pretty much every brand name and obscure gaming console. I was wrong once I accidently came upon your channel. I am 44 and have seen A LOT of consoles and once I turned 40 I THOUGHT I knew about 90% of them, well the jokes on me 😂
The thumbnail needs the MSX/Zemmix era-appropriate Microsoft logo, the 1982-1987 version where Microsoft is in all caps and the first O has all those lines across it (possibly representing scanlines).
This is very interesting. In addition Samsung distributed (under their own branding through a licence with Nintendo), NES and SNES consoles in South Korea but they had a totally different name. Also who remembers when Kjonami changed their name when they went outside Japan. There was a few years when they were still branded as : Kjonami (the proper name) but then rebranded as KONAMI.
The MSX Zemmix was not strictly Microsoft, it was done by ASCII, which at the time was the Japanese arm of Microsoft, Micro$oft fell out with ASCII soon after the MSX2 introduction. Very sad story really
I grew up with the MSX, it‘s practically my childhood, being the very first computer to adapt Arabic writing it got very popular here in the middle east, if you wanna know more about it feel free to ask.
I think that SpectraVideo computers came out before MSX, and in fact inspired the MSX specifications. But the original SpectraVideo computers weren't quite (forwards) compatible with MSX, so they made later models conform to MSX compatiblity. Or something like that.
Another system that was almost-but-not-quite MSX was the ColecoVision. Like many other game consoles at the time, the ColecoVision promised to be working on a computer expansion. Unlike almost all of the others, Coleco actually delivered. The Coleco Adam was not very successful, but it wasn't too bad (albeit here in the USA the use of tape drives was seen as very backwards).
But of course, ColecoVision had nothing to do with Microsoft so whatever.
Awesome video.
Obscure! That's awesome.
These videos are always interesting. It's amazing how many copyright issues and clones and just dirty business that was going on.
WTF! I have never heard of this. Actually looked really cool.
I loved both my msx and msx2. (I imported cartridges for the msx2 ). The msx decade sadly died suddenly.
Looks cool, I'll buy one if it's available as a real console or a plug and play.
I don't know why you was in my recommended, but take my sub.
*I have a Daewoo refrigerator in my house and you are ever so pretty! I remember MSX in the 80’s*
I remember the first time I saw Daewoo! It was a car! Then I saw it on a PC monitor! I was like....wtf!
9:24 That character reminds me of one of the villains in Dawn of Sorrow
I love your content! You are very easy on the eyes as well.
Where do you find this content? This is amazing