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There is an even bigger missing entry: toys. The Chinese company Sunplus/GeneralPlus has had a near monopoly on toy microcontrollers for over two decades at this point and the vast majority of their lower-end offerings are based on trimmed down 6502 derivatives, usually expanded with dedicated hardware for tasks like audio playback. Notably, the original Furby [1] and many Tamagotchi models [2] use such chips.

[1] https://archive.org/details/furby-source

[2] https://spritesmods.com/?art=tamasingularity&page=2




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