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  • Because the person creating the image didn’t take the time to optimize the image. It’s probably just a PNG or a JPEG, which is way overkill for representing a NES frame.

    Other commenters have mentioned that the NES has 56 colors and uses tiles to draw the frame. If you took the same approach (maybe embedding a GIF tile in an SVG), you could cut down the size of the modern image significantly.