Slowdown, be gone.
The SNES is a legendary console, of that there can be absolutely no doubt. However, it did have one considerable weakness when compared to its main rival, the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis: the clock speed of its CPU.
The Ricoh 5A22 which powers the console runs at 3.58 MHz, while Sega’s 16-bit system has a Motorola 68000 running at 7.6 MHz (even the 8-bit TurboGrafx-16 / PC Engine has a faster CPU than the SNES, with its custom Hudson Soft HuC6280 CPU running at 7.6 MHz).
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