"Mokon-san's Garden" Reference Photo Album: Materials-22 [Stuffed Animal Club Part 1] Behold the serious expressions of stuffed animals playing a high-difficulty, authentic game called "Mahjong Goku" for the MSX!?
I started collecting stuffed animals in the 70s.
There was no particular reason; it just seemed interesting for some reason.
This time, I didn't use digital files, but scanned color prints. I thought about correcting them, but it would change the feel, so I intentionally left them in their analog state.
In the 80s, the MSX (MSX1) appeared. The one I bought was a Yamaha MSX, which was a bit expensive at the time.
It had an 8-bit CPU and a keyboard. You connect this to a TV. Since it was that era, the TV was a CRT type, different from today's.
Software like games came on ROM cartridges.
The Famicom came out in 1983, and the Super Famicom came out in 1990. In my case, if I was going to play games, the Famicom and Super Famicom had more good software and were more immersive, so I gradually stopped using the MSX. By the end of the 80s, it graduallybeganto decline.
I thought some people might wonder what an MSX is, so I've included a brief explanation from ChatGPT.
Explanation by ChatGPT: What is MSX?
The machine in the photo is an MSX-standard home computer used in the 1980s, and it is thought to be a Yamaha SX100.
MSX was not a product name from a specific manufacturer, but
a common computer standard established so that the same software would run on any manufacturer's machine. Therefore, even if the appearance or manufacturer was different, the basic usage was the same.
At that time, floppy disks were not yet common, and this model used cassette tapes to save programs and data.
You had to load them while playing or fast-forwarding, which is completely different from how current storage media are used.
Commercially available software like games was mainly on ROM cartridges,
and you could play them immediately just by inserting them into the main unit.
On the other hand, programs you made yourself or programs published in magazines
were generally saved and used on cassette tapes.
When you turned on the MSX, BASIC would start up immediately,
and you could enter and run programs directly from the keyboard.
In computer magazines of the time, programs for games and practical software were published on the pages, and there was a culture of typing them in yourself to play and learn.
It is a machine from an era when the basic experience of touching a computer was not using finished software like today, but typing it in yourself, saving it, and running it.
There was a monthly magazine called MSX Magazine specializing in MSX. The 1983 inaugural issue (it ceased publication in 1992) had a detailed article about MSX-Basic, and game programs were also included. Around this time, I submitted a "necessary expense entry program" I made myself in MSX-Basic. Surprisingly, it was published in the magazine. A program that further improved my program was included, and I used this for my tax return. I used a Brother printer to output it at 24 dots.
At that time, if you went to Akihabara, MSX machines were lined up everywhere. Since many manufacturers entered the market, prices kept dropping.
After that, I bought a Sony MSX2. The Sony MSX2 was about half the price of the Yamaha I bought earlier. It was equipped with a floppy disk drive, and the graphics functions were further enhanced.
I tried drawing a picture with a mouse using drawing software, but the machine I was using could only select 16 colors out of 512... it's unthinkable nowadays, isn't it?
This is the first thing I ever drew with a mouse.
I am very sorry for the crude drawing. It's embarrassing, but I'm putting it out there anyway.
Side note:
* Unlike the MSX, the authentic PC was probably the PC-98, right? Back in the 1980s, the PC-98 (PC-9800 series) was very popular, but at over 200,000 yen, it was a bit out of my reach. It was a PC that excelled at Japanese language processing and was strong in graphics, and it was active from the late 1980s through the 90s.
As a bonus, I'll include a work created with a simple prompt using image generation AI as a palate cleanser.
Thank you for reading this far☆
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