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Re:Galaga, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong Emulator for ESP32 by deaddodo on Thursday January 26, 2023 @10:24PM (#34542085)
> but it's always fascinated me how the Z80 and the 6502 dominated the market for reasonably-priced CPUs for about a decade.

Only a decade? I would argue they had at least 15 years of dominance and were being used en masse for ~20 (the Genesis, SMS, NES, Gameboy, etc were using them well into the 90s, as you mentioned).

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Re:Galaga, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong Emulator for ESP32 by TedDoesntTalk on Thursday January 26, 2023 @11:24PM (#34542455)
True… the Atari 2600 was released in Sept 1977 and used a 6502 variant. The 6502 was released in late 1975 by MOS Technology, but I don’t think any sold until 1976.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502#Introduc...

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