https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDv_c1zfUA0
This is a commercial for Hitachi’s H2 model of the MSX, Microsoft’s unsung hero of Japan’s gaming past. The soothing tones, the brilliant whites, the computer-generated animal…this is the future, people. The distant, star-gazing future! Where video games are so advanced they’re sold not on discs, or downloaded over communications networks, but put on cassette tapes.
https://kotaku.com/metal-gear-was-born-on-microsofts-great-japanese-succes-5797534
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