poke-1,170 did it again! After getting some MSX action into a Lenny Kravitz music video he managed to get MSX on Dutch national television. Yesterday, he was one of the guests in the late-night talk show De Staat van Verwarring on Nederland 3. He was there to talk about the Commodore 64 orchestra, a project that he, Jeroen Tel and Rob Hubbard initiated. This weekend, the orchestra performed various popular C64 game tunes on the Noorderslag festival. Reasons enough to get him to the TV studio, but not without an MSX shirt on! Over here you can watch the entire TV show. The item is right at the beginning of the show.

Relevant link: De Staat van Verwarring - January 16th

MundoCombo, also known as Nakoko, is a spanish web magazine devoted to a variety of topics such as books, movies, music and videogames. Recently, MundoCombo has published a review of the MSXDev'07 winner, Caos Begins, together with additional information about the group who developped the game, Hikaru Games, and about each of its components.

This is certainly good news, as it demonstrates that the media are paying more and more attention to vintage platforms, such as the MSX!

Relevant link: Caos Begins and Hikaru Games in MundoCombo

Source: MSX Posse

The UK games magazine GamesTM has once again dedicated a fair part of its retro corner to the MSX computer system. This time a two-page review of the Konami classic shooter Space Manbow was published in issue 59. Scans are available here on MSXposse.

Relevant link: Space Manbow in GamesTM

With both msd and roadfighter reporting on the One Chip MSX getting attention on the frontpage of the Dutch website Elektuur, it's high time for a short overview of One Chip MSX attention in the media:

• 3Dnews Russia
• Biruji
• Classicgaming.com
• Cooler online
• Elektuur
• Emulatronia
• FOK!
• FPGA FAQ
• GamesTM 50; scan available on the Bazix in the news page
• HCCnet
• Menéame
• Old-computers.com
• Old computers blogspot
• Silicon era
• VNUnet
• Zonadictos

Before the One Chip MSX became available on pre-order in Europe, the Spanish website Barrapunto had also already reported about it, together with Tweakers.net. I guess we can safely say that the return of MSX to the Western market did not go overlooked. At Bazix, the One Chip MSX can be pre-ordered until November 21st.

Relevant link: One Chip MSX website at Bazix

The UK gaming magazine Ngamer have reported about MSX in the December 2006 edition of their magazine. In an article on the Virtual Console of the Nintendo Wii, Ngamer felt it would be a good idea to do a little history lesson on the computers and consoles supported - including MSX. Manuel Bilderbeek, who was also responsible for delivering the MSX images to Ngamer magazine, already reported about it in our MSX Forum a while ago. You can watch the evidence in this forum topic.

Relevant link: Ngamer talks MSX

The UK magazine RetroGamer have published a 2-page review on the new retro gaming service WOOMB.net and 5 MSX of the games out of its collection (Aleste 2, DiX, Frantic, Golvellius 2 and Undeadline). You can read the review in PDF format on Bazix' website, in the Bazix in the news section.

Relevant link: Bazix in the news

Today, 1up have published an article on 4 foreign systems that are Missing in America. The list starts with our beloved MSX computer system and correctly mentions the Xbox wasn't Microsoft's first step on the hardware console/computer market, neither that the Playstation was Sony's. As the main reason why MSX did not make it in the US, 1up concludes that "although the standard was conceived by a Microsoft executive, it was a Japanese initiative. In America, the company supported the IBM PC standard."

The article, originally published in Electronic Gaming Magazine has quickly spread to many other news sites and blogs, such as SlashDot and Joystiq. In a week that the release of WOOMB got attention in CNET Japan, Yahoo! Biz and GameSetWatch it's almost a shame our MSX in the Media Challenge died a silent death. So, without the challenge element: from now on we will keep report every now and then when MSX hits the news somewhere in this world. Have you spotted MSX on TV, large websites, magazines or newspapers... or at another surpsing location? Let us know at msxmedia@msx.org and we will report about it.

Which reminds us, one entry for that challenge that was still pending for publication concerns the fact that an MSX computer was on display at the 2006 CeBit fair in Germany. During this fair, which is visited by more than 500,000 visitors each year, there was a small section dedicated to retro computers in Hall 9, arranged by InformatikJahr. Here, a Philips VG8235 MSX2 was on display, with Crazy Train cartridge inserted. Don't believe us? Evidence - shot by Richard Foersom - in the comments!

Relevant link: Missing in America

The games industry portal Gamasutra have published an interview on the MSX Revival with Sander Zuidema of Bazix. The article deals with "the WOOMB.net service, currently licensing and translating Japanese MSX classics for the west, about creating a business purely on retro titles, Virtual Console, and how to avoid setting up the bomb.". You can read the full interview over here.

Relevant link: Gamasutra's MSX Revival Q&A

The Finnish gamers portal Peliplaneetta have published a review on WOOMB.net, Bazix's retro gaming service. Unfortunately the review is entirely in Finnish, but the article has special attention for the MSX computer system. The review contains an interview with Sander Zuidema of Bazix and short reviews and ratings of 5 games available in WOOMB, being Aleste 2 (8), DiX (7), Golvellius 2 (7+), Nosh (5) and Undeadline (8.5).

Relevant link: WOOMB.net review on Peliplaneetta

Almost a week ago we reported on a new Lenny Kravitz music video which contains a lot of MSX action. The music video, created by poke-1,170, was the video to Nikko Patrelakis's remake of the Lenny Krativz song Breathe. On the Absolut Kravitz website the video was a bit hard to find and download, but now the video can be downloaded a lot easier from Edwin van Aalderen's website.

To those who are wondering about the MSX references in the video:

• In the scenes where you can see a white silhouette of Lenny Kravitz, the lines were generated on an MSX2
• A Zemmix Super V MSX console can be spotted, if you look closely
• If you look even more closely, you can spot two Sony cartridge ports
• And last but not least, the cursor keys of a Sony hb201P can be spotted as well

Relevant link: Edwin van Aalderen's website