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Sega's Blast Processing? We Did It On The SNES First, Says Former Sculptured Software Dev

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"That was before Sega adopted the slogan".

During the epic console war of the early '90s, Sega and Nintendo used every weapon in their arsenal to gain the upper hand on each other. Any feature or technique that was seen as an advantage was quickly turned into a marketing point, and when
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arrived on the scene, Sega was quick to focus on the fact that its console was capable of doing things faster than the competition.

Some of this is based on solid fact; the Motorola 68000 CPU inside the Mega Drive / Genesis is clocked at 7.6 MHz, which means it's more than twice as fast as the Ricoh 5A22 which powers the SNES, which runs at 3.58 MHz.

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