Arcade system board

An arcade system is a standardized platform or a hardware compilation on a board that is used as the basis for many arcade games with very similar hardware requirements. The board is also called arcade system board.

Earlier arcade motherboards integrated the game directly into the motherboard, which in the production due to the standardized components saved costs, but demanded that arcade game owners had to buy a complete motherboard for each new game.

The first standard was the DECO Cassette System from Data East (1980).

Later arcade motherboards, including the Neo Geo, CPS by Capcom, and the Sega NAOMI, separated the main board from the game and used separate modules. This method took advantage of manufacturers and the operators of the gambling halls: the production cost could be reduced tremendously due to higher volumes, and the owners of the machines could have different games running on the same system.

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