[1][2][3][4] With a price of 2990 Fr,[4] the machine was MSX1 standard compatible, had a real keyboard (instead of a chiclet keyboard like its predecessors) and a printer port (missing on the previous models).

The VG-8020 was manufactured by Kyocera[5] and featured a Zilog Z80A microprocessor clocked at 3.56 MHz, 64KB of RAM, 16KB of VRAM, two cartridge slots and two joystick ports.

[3][4] The machine came with MSX BASIC 1.0 in ROM and graphics were provided by a Texas Instruments TMS9929A, with RF and composite video outputs.

Sound was generated by a General Instruments AY-3-8910 chip.

It was replaced by the VG-8220, a MSX2 compatible machine.