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Agree NES is a good place to start. C64 SID is not FM at all, but agree it's not easy to learn.

SID chip does have some FM components to it, for exemple ring modulation or LPF/HPF. This is what makes the learning curve pretty high for it.

Ring modulation is a form of amplitude modulation, not frequency modulation. Filters are not modulation at all.