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Microsoft MSX is a standardised home computer architecture, first announced by Microsoft on June 16, 1983. It was conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation. The system was designed to be plug and play, thus requiring no user intervention either on hardware or software to install extensions.
The MSX-based machines were seldom released in the United States, but were popular in Asian, South American, and European countries. To a lesser extent, the MSX platform was also popular in the former Soviet Union and Kuwait. 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. 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 Metal Gear series, for example, was originally written for MSX hardware.
MSX may refer to:
- MSX, a computer standard
- Haplosporidium nelsoni, an oyster pathogen
- Metal Slug X, a video game
- Midcourse Space Experiment, an infrared satellite telescope
- Mossendjo Airport, in the Republic of the Congo