The MSX Standard was based on the Spectravideo design which was an American company (SV-318 and SV-328).<p>The Colecovision was also pretty close to the MSX and many games has been ported between both systems including some classic Konami games.<p>The only real MSX sold in USA as a far I know was made by  Yamaha, CX5M, and sold as midi sequencer bundle in music stores.