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Soundwave said:
The_Liquid_Laser said:

I don't know why I keep hearing that the NES had "normal" hardware.  It had same processor as the Atari 2600.  Nintendo seems to do its best work when the hardware is underpowered.

The NES was a lot more powerful than an Atari 2600

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The Atari 7800 (a generation leap above the 2600) was comparable to the NES, but the 7800 never really took off. An Atari 2600 is to the NES what the NES is to the SNES, probably even more so because the types of games on the 2600 were so limited. 

The NES had a graphics chip.  However, it had the same processor as the Atari 2600.  The NES is notorious for flicker and slowdown because its processor was so weak.