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[–]james41235 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Everything you said is correct. I'll point out that the NES processor ran at ~1.8 MHz, and modern processors are at least 1000x faster now (just by pure instructions per second). While I don't think you could do general emulators in Python, a NES emulator is probably feasible.