Computer + Video Games - Commodore Is Awesome

Errr HELLO! It's me. Big
Red! They've allowed me
back to do the Mailbag
pages again — as long as I
don't touch anything. Did
you like my sticker last
issue. I thought it was
rather fetching. Didn't like
the place that B-Con stuck it
though (Get on with it! Ed)
Oh. era all right
• I am writing in response
to an article you published
in your November issue. It
concerned micros past and
present. Your treatment of
the MSX stable of micros
was unfair, unjust and
biased.
Last Xmas MSX was
the best selling
micro — Toshiba
alone sold
50,000 —
True
marketing strategy was not
well thought out and they
were initially overpriced.
But once that was sorted
they sold well.
In Europe they are very
well supported — a fact you
neglect to mention at all.
Vera Cruz, Mandragore, Inheritance
were all introduced
for MSX from France
and then converted to Spectrum
etc.
You also do not state in
your software reviews
that games are available
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on MSX as you do for others
like the Spectrum and
Commodore_ Games like
Super Cycle, Jewels of
Darkness and many
others
All reviewed as available
in other formats but no
mention of the MSX format,
even though an advert you
carried said they were.
You rave about the Com-
modore as the best games
machine, yet MSX is as capable
in the graphic department.
As far as basic goes it
is provided with better
drawing instructions than
either the Spectrum or Commodore.
It can also be expanded
to MSX 2 configuration
and up to IBM RAM.
The only thing against the
MSX appears to be magazines
like yourself who refuse
to acknowledge its ex-