Standard sprites can be either eight pixels wide ... the expiration of most of Nintendo's NES patents means that building and selling NES-compatible third-party systems is no longer the dubious ...

Kevin Bayliss Since NES development tools weren’t standardised, a variety of different art tools were used by different companies. Nintendo did use hand-drawn sprites at one point, but ...

Nintendo's system only has two sprite memory grids (one each for the foreground and background), and it can only display 64 sprites at any time — that's why many NES games flicker at busy moments.

Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition for the Switch valiantly ... There are hundreds of different sprites to use as your online profile icon, with almost 60 from Legend of Zelda alone.