The Famicom used a 6502 clone from Ricoh in part because that’s the only thing they could find; every other chip manufacturer had too much backlog. They had alr

The Famicom used a 6502 clone from Ricoh in part because that’s the only thing they could find; every other chip manufacturer had too much backlog. They had already used the Ricoh chip in arcade boards, and just went with that one.