The same chip family included the TMS9918 Video Display Processor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TMS9918 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_I

The same chip family included the TMS9918 Video Display Processor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TMS9918 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TMS9918 The TMS9918 was the first chip to refer to overlaid graphical objects as "sprites." It was used in a multitude of early computers and game consoles, like the MSX1, Colecovision, Sega's SG-1000, and of course TI's own 99/4 (where it was paired with a TMS9900 CPU). It also served as the basis for the video controllers in the Sega Master System and Genesis/Mega Drive. The TMS9918 is also interesting because it was one of the few off-the-shelf video generator chips ever produced. (There were a couple others, like the MC6847 used by the CoCo, but almost every other home computer/console of the era used custom silicon for video generation.)