Arcade system board
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An arcade system board is a standardized printed circuit board or group of printed circuit boards that are used as the basis for multiple arcade games with very similar hardware requirements.
Early arcade system boards incorporated the game directly into the system board, which saved on manufacturing costs (due to the common components) but required arcade game owners to buy an entire system board for each new game.
Later arcade system boards, including SNK's Neo-Geo, Capcom's CPS-2, and Sega's NAOMI, separated the system board from the game itself, akin to a home video game console and cartridge. This method benefitted both manufacturers and arcade game owners; the owners only had to buy the system board once, and could switch out the games at a fraction of the price and with less effort, and the manufacturers could produce fewer of the costly system boards and more of the less-costly games. The ease and value of switching out games also led to brand loyalty, as owners of system board X would be much more likely to buy the latest X game for $1000 than to fork over $5000 for system board Y to run the latest Y game, or incorporated system board and game Z.
[edit] List of Arcade system boards by manufacturer
[edit] BrezzaSoft
- Crystal System (2001)
[edit] Capcom
- Capcom Play System (1988 - 1995)
- Capcom Play System 2 (1993 - 2004)
- Capcom Play System 3 (1996 - 1999)
[edit] Cave
- Cave 1st Generation (1994 - 2001)
- Cave 3rd Generation (2004 -)
[edit] CD Express
- Cubo CD32 (1995)
[edit] Data East
- Cassette System (1981 - 1985)
- Simple 156 (1994 - 1996)
- MLC System (1995 - 1996)
[edit] Examu
- EX-BOARD (2008)
[edit] Fuuki
- FG-2 (1995 - 1996)
- FG-3 (1998 - 2000)
[edit] Gaelco
- Gaelco GAE1
- Gaelco GAE2
- Gaelco 3D
- Gaelco PC Based
[edit] IGS
- PolyGame Master (1997 - 2005)
- PolyGame Master 2 (2007)
[edit] Irem/Data East
[edit] Jaleco
- Mega System 32
[edit] Kaneko
- Super NOVA System
[edit] Konami
- GX System
- GQ System
- Baby Phoenix / GV System
- GTI Club System
- M2 System
- Cobra System
- BEMANI DJ-Main
- Hornet System
- System 573
- BEMANI 573 ANALOG
- BEMANI 573 DIGITAL
- BEMANI Firebeat
- Viper
- Pyson
[edit] Limenko
- Power System 2 (2000 - 2003)
[edit] Midway
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[edit] Namco
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[edit] Nintendo
[edit] Psikyo
- Psikyo 1st Generation (1993 - 1996)
- Psikyo SH-2 (1997 - 2002)
[edit] Sammy
- Atomiswave (2003 - 2006)
- SSV (Sammy, Seta, Visco)
[edit] Sega
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[edit] Seibu
- SPI System
[edit] Seta
- Seta 1st Generation (1987 - 1996)
- Seta 2nd Generation (1993 - 2002)
- Seta Aleck64 (1998 - 2004)
[edit] SNK
- Neo Geo MVS (1990 - 2004)
- Hyper Neo Geo 64 (1997 - 1999)
[edit] Sony
- ZN-1 (1996 - 2000)
- ZN-2 (1997 - 1999)
[edit] Taito
- Taito F3 System (1992 - 1998)
- FX-1A System (1995 - 1996)
- JC System (1995 - 1998)
- FX-1B System (1996 - 1997)
- Wolf System (1997)
- PPC JC System (1998)
- Taito G-NET (1998 - 2004)
- Type Zero (1999 - 2000)
- Scorpion (2000 - 2001)
- Type X (2004 - 2008)
- Type X+ (2005 - 2007)
- Type X2 (2006 -)
[edit] Tecmo
- TPS System (1997 - 2001)
