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This was a choice of components that was shared by many other home computers and games consoles of the period, such as the ColecoVision home computer (an emulator was later available with which MSX systems could run some of its software), and the Sega SG-1000 video game system. The standard consisted primarily of several off-the-shelf parts the main CPU was a 3.58 MHz Zilog Z80, the graphics chip a Texas Instruments TMS9918 with 16 KB of dedicated VRAM, the sound and partial I/O support was provided by the AY-3-8910 chip manufactured by General Instrument (GI), and an Intel 8255 Programmable Peripheral Interface chip was used for the parallel I/O such as the keyboard. Nishi's standard was built around the Spectravideo SV-328 computer. In particular, the expansion cartridge form and function were part of the standard any MSX expansion or game cartridge would work in any MSX computer.

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Any piece of hardware or software with the MSX logo on it was compatible with MSX products of other manufacturers. Inspired by the success of VHS as a standard for video cassette recorders, many Japanese electronic manufacturers along with GoldStar, Philips and Spectravideo built and promoted MSX computers. Nishi proposed MSX as an attempt to create a single industry standard for home computers. Other Japanese consumer electronics firms such as Panasonic, Canon, Casio, Yamaha, Pioneer, and Sanyo were searching for ways to enter the new home computer market.

The hardware design of these computers and the various dialects of their ROM Basics were incompatible. In the early 1980s, most home computers manufactured in Japan such as the NEC PC-6001 and PC-8000 series, Fujitsu's FM-7 and FM-8, and Hitachi's Basic Master featured a variant of Microsoft's Basic interpreter integrated into their on-board ROMs. Many MSX programs were unofficially ported to the SV-328 by home programmers. The Spectravideo SV-328 was the predecessor of the MSX standard. The Metal Gear series, for example, was originally written for MSX hardware. It is one of the major platforms for which major Japanese game studios, such as Konami, Sega, Compile, Falcom and Hudson Soft, produced video game titles. The MSX was released almost at the same time as the Nintendo's Family Computer in the countries where both were marketed, becoming one of Nintendo's main competitors in Japan. To a lesser extent, the MSX platform was also popular in the former Soviet Union and Kuwait. The MSX-based machines were seldom released in the United States, but were popular in Asian, South American, and European countries.

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The system was designed to be plug and play, thus requiring no user intervention either on hardware or software to install extensions. It was conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation. MSX is a standardised home computer architecture, first announced by Microsoft and ASCII Corporation on June 16, 1983.

For other uses, see MSX (disambiguation) and MSX2 (disambiguation). This article is about the home computer family.