MSX Gids was a hobby magazine that focused on the MSX range of computers. The magazine is very heavy on type-in listings with a sprinkle of software- and hardware reviews. Some of the published listings were really pushing the machine and rivaled commercially available software.

MSX computers were an attempt to create a hardware standard among different manufacturers. Many big companies signed on like Philips, Sony, Toshiba, Pioneer, Mitsubishi, Nec and many more. Unfortunately the concept was late to market, and by the time the first MSX1 computers came out, others already started producing 16-bit machines with better memory, graphics, and sound. The last of the standard was MSX Turbo-R, which added a second R800 semi-16-bit CPU which was backwards compatible with the Z80, but it was only produced in Japan by a limited number of manufacturers, as philips and others had already abandoned the concept.