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The MSX Standard was based on the Spectravideo design which was an American company (SV-318 and SV-328). The Colecovision was also pretty close to the MSX and
by pmarin 11y ago
The MSX Standard was based on the Spectravideo design which was an American company (SV-318 and SV-328).
The Colecovision was also pretty close to the MSX and many games has been ported between both systems including some classic Konami games.
The only real MSX sold in USA as a far I know was made by Yamaha, CX5M, and sold as midi sequencer bundle in music stores.
- bane 11y agoMy understanding is that a variant of the same architecture became the Sega 8-bit consoles (which was repeated again in the portable Game Gear). There's some hobbyist ports between the systems floating around the internet. Sega for a while also had a policy of incrementing architecture by adding more "power" to their original architecture. So the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive is essentially still compatible with the Master System (the SMS adapter was pretty much just a pin adapter)...which means that the Spectravideo/MSX architecture lived on in some form for a very long while.