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Famicom had educational games in East Asia I know Thailand has several Famicom clones with keyboards and joysticks to play educational games on it. Each one costs like $35USD and hooks up to a PAL TV.

The Commodore 64 had an advantage over the Famicom in that it could use cassettes and floppy disks to store the games on and could have them in BASIC or assembly.

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The Famicom had a floppy disk drive too. I've got one and a few games on floppy like Zelda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famicom_Disk_System

Anyone who ever wondered why Excite Bike had that awesome track designer but no way to save tracks across restarts, it was intended to work with the FDS and on the Japanese version you could save them to a disk, if you had the peripheral. Learning that some years ago solved a minor mystery from my childhood.