Last week I shared a bit of a musing about the Nintendo Famicom and the fact that, in an era of Zilog Z80 based arcade machines, it was a bit of an oddball for a dedicated game system to be MOS 6502 based. A friend in the phone phreak community shared with me the below …
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Just Why Was The Famicom 6502 Based?
Seriously, if most Arcade hardware of the era was Z80 based, why did Nintendo opt for the 6502? In the early 80’s when it was already an “old” chip?
Angry Video Game Nerd Episode 72: Transformers – Episode Review
In this Angry Video Game Nerd episode James takes a look at a couple of games in the Transformers franchise, one for the Commodore 64 and one for the Nintendo Famicom. Opening up, the Nerd poses the question of what format you usually play games on. For the most part, in the case of the …
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