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Nintendo's Origins

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The PPU at the NES Is Actually Doing a Lot of Work

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The PPU at the NES is actually doing a lot of work. And it all came about as this necessitated by this constraint that Yamauchi put on the team to make games for less than a hundred bucks. The famous thing that Nintendo also went on to do, and I'm very curious if you know sort of how this came to be, is that their games are optimized for fun, not to show off the hardware.

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