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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)the console itself is nothing more than controls, LCD panel and a controller chip for the LCD panel. Each cartridge contains the microprocessor, which happens to have a small amount of ROM space on it that MB loaded the game code onto.
The main unit was little more than a housing for the display, batteries, switches and controller, while the brains of each game was a combined microprocessor/memory chip inside the clip-on cartridge.
In fact, it was the cartridge itself that contained the CPU, and just to confuse everyone two different ones were used.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)the console itself is nothing more than controls, LCD panel and a controller chip for the LCD panel. Each cartridge contains the microprocessor, which happens to have a small amount of ROM space on it that MB loaded the game code onto.
In fact, it was the cartridge itself that contained the CPU, and just to confuse everyone two different ones were used.
The main unit was little more than a housing for the display, batteries, switches and controller, while the brains of each game was a combined microprocessor/memory chip inside the clip-on cartridge.