So my friend BlackThorne decided that today was my birthday, and he decided to celebrate it by gifting me a vintage Philips VG-8020 Computer, watch my video and enjoy this wonderfulld machine with us.
I got one of those, and it still works. I should probably try and play Road Fighter again :) b.t.w. unboxing videos are the work of the devil! Especially unboxing Chinese junk and apple iphones.
I bought one in 1990, because after learning 6502 and 8086 assembly I wanted to learn Z80 and it was already outdated at that time so I paid 25 euros for it. I wrote an assembler for it and it ended up in the attic. When I moved I found it and gave it to me old colleague. Which meant that in February or this year I had to buy another one (MSX2) and my god they’ve become pricey! BTW where are you guys from? I can’t place the accent. I first thought Swedish then Swiss... but really no clue. And I got the answer :) Denmark 🇩🇰 :)
Yes ... We're from Denmark, one of my goals with this channel was to become better at English, and after rewatching some of this video i can clearly see improvement 😂
@@RetroComputingwithMike no complaints at all! I can follow you perfectly and the accent is not excessive either. I was just wondering what certain sounds were. Initially I thought Swedish but it wasn’t that, then I thought Swiss because your accent doesn’t have “Zat Horrible German Zouding Zee :) “ Then I saw your shirt with .dk and I was like, of course. Yeah with all this COVID nonsense I haven’t been outside the Netherlands for almost 2 years :( I went to Kopenhagen 3 years ago. I really enjoyed it. It felt like a quant version of Amsterdam. BTW I love your channel content. There’s some awesome gems on here! Its hard to make unique retro content.
Hi, maybe you can help me with a mistery that´s been ridelling for almost 34 years. I got exactly the same computer with that exact box way back in Christmas 1986, and while a pretty capable machine in poor 80´s backward Portugal, trying to find any MSX game in a 8-bit market with more than 90% Spectrum users and 100% pirated software was almost impossible, as almost no stores sell them nor have them for display. For years I´ve been intrigued by what games where those displayed in the VG-8020 box. One was a racing game and the other a cool 3d perspective image of a fantasy warrior facing a gryphon/dragom/whatever. Years passed with little and mostly crappy european ZX Spectrum ports till finally surrendered to the almighty Commodore Amiga in Summer 1990 and let the MSX to rest in the basement ( by that time I think the box was long gone ). Enter internet era and nostalgic interest was born and suddenly here I am trying to find what was that game screen about. I found the racing game is a 1984/85 game called Le Mans but there´s no way I can find any information about the adventure/rpg one, or if it´s a real game or just a art screen. I sthere any way you can send me a good resolution photo of that screen so I can try to find it somewhere in a MSX games database forum? Thanks in advance.
Sure drop me an email, mikkel@mikjaer.com and then i'll snap some pictures for you next time im in my studios :-) I'd like to get some more MSX Games myself, i only have the one i showcased in this video :-)
Be careful! I had this computer in the 80's and tried to insert a cartridge from an earlier Philips game console; it ruined my MSX within a second. I'm not sure if that will also happen with the module you mention, but again, don't do anything stupid like I did...
