Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)

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The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is a 8-bit Cartridge Based System introduced December 1985 (United States) by Nintendo Co. Ltd.

CPU: Nintendo 2A03 8 bit processor based on MOS Technology 6502 core, running at 1.79MHz
Sound: four tone generators (2 square, 1 triangle, 1 noise), a DAC, and a restricted DMA controller
Main RAM: 2 KB
Palette: 48 colors and 5 grays in base palette; red, green, and blue guns can be individually darkened somewhat on a particular scanline
Onscreen colors: 25 colors on one scanline (background color + 4 sets of 3 tile colors + 4 sets of 3 sprite colors)
Sprite sizes: 8x8 and 8x16 pixels
Maximum onscreen sprites: 64
Maximum number of sprite pixels on one scanline: 8
Video memory: PPU contains 2 KB of tile and attribute RAM, 256 bytes of sprite position RAM ('OAM'), and 28 bytes of palette RAM
Scrolling layers: 1 per scanline
Resolution: 256x240
Expansion port on the bottom right hand side
2 seven pin controller ports in the front of the machine

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