Nintendo Entertainment System — Technical Details

The record

Type: Vendor documentation
Tier: A: Vendor documentation, a government document, a technical manual or an official benchmark result. One tier A source is sufficient to publish a figure.
Locator: Technical Details table, CPU and Memory rows
Consulted: 2026-08-15
Address: https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Hardware/Nintendo-History/Nintendo-Entertainment-System/Technical-Details/Technical-Details-627027.html
Retrieved: 79883 bytes, SHA-256 e164547b0f54cdb2… Recorded by the pipeline as evidence of what was downloaded, never as a fact about the hardware.
License: Copyright Nintendo. Quoted here under short-extract fair use for verification of the figures cited.
Usage: Nintendo's own specification table for this console, still published, and the only one this project has found. It states a single processor frequency and names no region, although the console shipped with different crystals in different territories — a distinction the catalog's record makes and this document does not. Its figure is also not the one that circulates. Both facts are carried on the measurement rather than resolved here, because the manufacturer's statement is the manufacturer's statement.