Despite having the capability to support sound chips in cartridges, almost no 7800 cartridges feature POKEY hardware for enhanced sound.

Despite having no experience with women, their other signature traits are a shared obsession with sex, and their tendency to chuckle and giggle whenever they hear words or phrases that can even remotely be construed as sexual or scatological.

Despite having lost the test series to South Africa by game three, the Lions won the final test.

Despite his ferocious reputation though, there are no verified accounts of his ever having murdered or harmed those he held captive.

Despite its faintness, Capricornus has one of the oldest mythological associations, having been consistently represented as a hybrid of a goat and a fish since the Middle Bronze Age.

" Despite having the quote presented to a notable organisation, it has also appeared in books such as " The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken " as it is deemed by some Westerners as a prime example of a lack of understanding of foreign culinary traditions in the Western world.

Despite both forces having similar numbers, the Japanese were easily defeated due to the Ming cannon.

Despite having a tremendous chronology, their use was not at all consistent or unchanging.

Despite opinion that such a voyage was impossible and his having retired, Slocum rebuilt a derelict sloop Spray and sailed her single-handed around the world.

Despite having the stronger army, Carinus held the weaker position.

Despite having no debris shields, the spacecraft survived the comet passage intact.

Despite having invented much of the technology of software, Dijkstra eschewed the use of computers in his own work for many decades.

Despite not having a civil ensign, the EU's Fishery Inspection teams display a blue and yellow pennant.

Despite the efficacy of epilepsy surgery, some patients decide not to undergo surgery owing to fear or the uncertainty of having a brain operation.

Despite popular lore, it seems unlikely that he reached Cape Horn or the eponymous Drake Passage, because his descriptions do not fit the first and his shipmates denied having seen an open sea.

Despite having " lost " its Soviet periphery, Russia has 9 time zones, stretching slightly over half the world's longitude.

Despite having direct access to Hitler, Heydrich's loyalty to Himmler remained firm.

Despite opposing the United States in favour of the Sandanistas on the country's northern border, stern warnings against the US Bay of Pigs invasion, along with repelling Nicaraguan dictator Somoza's invasion after turning to the Organization of American States, and border disputes with Nicaragua, Costa Rica has held firmly to its belief against ever having a military.

Despite having the go-ahead runs on base, Smith was able to escape the inning without any further damage.

Despite having just turned 21, Cronje was made captain of Orange Free State for the 1990-91 season.

Despite this, the office was not legally hereditary, and the heir could not title himself " Emperor " without having been personally elected.

Despite having defeated Prussia at the Battle of Langensalza, the city of Hanover became a Prussian provincial capital.

Despite having interest rates down near zero for a long period of time, the Quantitative easing strategy did not succeed in stopping price deflation.

Despite Valenti's two-year marriage to Johnson's personal secretary, the investigation focused on rumors that he was having a gay relationship with a commercial photographer friend.

Despite their simple construction, the tentacles of hydras are extraordinarily extensible and can be four to five times the length of the body.

Despite the game's small size and admittedly joking nature, there are more than 30 fan-authored websites devoted to Risus, some including several rules variants, simple worldbooks, and wholly rewritten adaptations of the game.

Despite its age, it is still considered an excellent commentary on simple but high quality code.

Despite the name, most smartjacks are much more than a simple telephone jack.

Despite being morphologically simple, lacking a skeleton and usually being sessile, cnidarians prey on fish and crustaceans.

Despite its simple narrative style, it was received well in the literary world.

Despite its decoration, the exterior is relatively simple and austere, devoid of flying buttresses or major sculpture and giving little hint of the richness within.

Despite this fact, it was widely used by script kiddies because of its simple GUI and ease of installation.

Despite this, the basic operating principles of a microscope are quite simple.

Despite the simplification they can bring to the electronics of an HVDC valve, light triggered thyristors may still require some simple monitoring electronics and have the disadvantage of being available from only very few manufacturers.

Despite such a simple configuration, one operandum and one feeder, it is possible to investigate many psychological phenomena.

Despite attempts to present himself as a " simple man " and, by default, unable to appreciate post-classical art, Lowry seems to have been aware of major trends in 20th century art.

Despite this, Cisneros personally still maintained a simple life ; although a message from Rome required him to live in a style befitting his rank, the outward pomp only concealed his private asceticism.

Despite her favored state, however, she only wore simple dresses rather than elaborate designs, as a means of savings.

Despite the fact that most engaged in sexual relations with their patrons, hetaerae were not simple prostitutes.

Despite their simple appearance, they are a sister subphylum to the Vertebrata.

Despite the simple appearance of the equations they are, in fact, quite complicated.

Despite substantial evidence to suggest that he was an operative of the Obsidian Order, Garak on several occasions denies having ever been involved with the group, claiming he is just " plain, simple Garak, a tailor on the Promenade " and that his difficulties with the Cardassian government stem from tax evasion.

Despite attempts by his friends and family to get him to move on to a more respectable position for his age, such as a Queen's Counsel ( QC ) or a Circuit Judge ( referred to as Queer Customers and Circus Judges by Rumpole ), he only enjoys the simple pleasure of defending his clients ( who are often legal aid cases ) at the Old Bailey, London's Central Criminal Court: " the honour of being an Old Bailey Hack ," as he describes his work.

Despite their nearly insatiable hunger, Taxxons have enough self-control to do simple tasks, and can fire Dracon beams with their pincers.

Despite its seemingly simple nervous system, however, Aplysia californica is capable of a variety of non-associative and associative learning tasks, including sensitization, habituation, and classical and operant conditioning.

Despite being a good friend, Carl can be very self-centered and workaholic at times – in The Devil Wears Nada, Carl becomes the new supervisor of Homer's sector ( for being the most competent of them ), and starts to abuse his position by forcing Homer to become his assistant, making him do even the mostly simple and unnecessary tasks ( much to Homer's dismay ).

Despite its use of simple chords, including a second theme constructed almost entirely out of tonic and dominant notes and chords, it is full of complex thematic transformations.

Despite some superficial similarities in presentation, excited delirium is a distinct ( and more serious ) condition from simple stimulant psychosis.