Your choice MSX or C64

I'm always impressed what people can pull off on the C64, but I also think it's a pretty awkward beast. It is not as programmable as the MSX (at least for beginners), so it is less inviting to start creating your own things. Also the keyboard usually sucks, most MSXes are much better (at least for cursor keys). C64 is also a bit odd with respect to having joysticks plugged in port 2 (why 2?) for most games. The disk drive is also pretty bad.
But on the other hand, as I said, people did great GREAT stuff on the C64. Really astonishing. You wouldn't expect them from the graphics specs. And the sound is unique. Very distinct and bound to give many people a nostalgic feeling.

I somehow have the feeling that only Konami really got everything out of the MSX1 (think about games like The Maze of Galious or King's Valley II) and there are not that many games that reach that level. On C64 there seem to be more. And the scrolling makes it a better games machine in many cases.

Still, I grew up with MSX, so MSX is my thing. I might want to get a good Amiga one day, though!

yzi posted a bad direct port

ok, yzi said the colors in his home, that's true.
the C64 has better gray. but the brown is not always better. sometimes the 3 red of MSX are better.

I was reminded of this

Justin Cyr on Twitter

Great game.