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by tenebrisalietum 2284 days ago
A lot of 8 bit designs used designed ASICs that weren't a generally available part, like the Atari 2600 with the TIA, the Commodore 64 with the PLA, etc. Using microcontrollers for these seems fair.
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The PLA wasn't an ASIC but you could call out the VIC 2 instead.