My memory of getting this machine is very vague, but I do remember picking it up from someone local back in 2000. It was in its box but missing the polys, and it came with some ROM carts and the manual. Sadly the up arrow key was missing.

The HX-22 was the successor to the HX-10 and spec wise not much had changed apart from an extra ROM slot at the back and a word processor in ROM that was selectable at power on. The Japanese version of this machine had extra fun things like a RAM disk and stereo sound, but us Brits were left bereft. This means you won't see many HX22GB models.

Amazingly, in 2004 I received an email from Clark who'd given me the machine originally, saying 'I have the up arrow key' so one English pound later and the machine was complete :oD

These pictures are rough and ready because I was testing the machine ahead of a gaming exhibition and needed a couple of MSX machines as backups in case my main four exhibits (all playing Chuckie Egg) failed during the weekend. This is also why the machine itself is not clean, I'd literally just got it out of the box to test. I'm impressed that it just worked though.