A (Sept.) 1985 Yamaha MSX presented with a mouse – a rare conjunction mayhaps. Giving me Amiga tank mouse vibes. The Amiga 1000 came out in July, and originally with only 256KB RAM iirc. Its sound and graphical chipset was more impressive than MSX2 I'd say.

Looks like around 200K¥ for the bundle below. Hard to guess what that is in modern money since something happened to the yen in 1985 (the Plaza Accord).

From the same late 1985 Technopolis (#38) issue, a game design article about... a living ball? Metroid was released in 1986.

Would you like to type a picture into your computer? It's only a few pages of hex.

These seem to be conveniently checksummed in blocks which go together with renderer code... probably of the line drawing and paint bucket variety.

The scan OCR don't seem to have picked the numbers up.

Do you know a man named Syd Mead? As one of the world's top industrial designers, he designs for top international companies, mainly automobile manufacturers, but as a future artist, he is also almost deified, and is an amazing person who is in charge of the concept art of various science fiction movies.

Recently, he was in charge of the design of the electro tank and the photoelectric cycle in "Tron", and he also designed the amphibious aircraft spinner and the set design in "Blade Runner".

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