One standard, dozens of makers, four continents — and America’s great blind spot. The MSX put the same cartridge slot in living rooms from Tokyo to São Paulo, taught classrooms from Moscow to Riyadh, and hosted Konami’s golden age and the birth of Metal Gear. This page is its complete story.
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Its great British rival, the other Z80 in the room: the ZX Spectrum hub.
The American contemporary it out-standardised: the Commodore 64 hub.
