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This resulted in most arcade games in Japan (outside racing and gun shooting games that required deluxe cabinets) to be sold as conversion kits consisting of nothing more than a PCB, play instructions and an operator's manual. The JAMMA standard uses a 56-pin edge connector on the board with inputs and outputs common to most video games. These ...
An arcade cabinet, also known as an arcade machine or a coin-op cabinet or coin-op machine, is the housing within which an arcade game's electronic hardware resides. Most cabinets designed since the mid-1980s conform to the Japanese Amusement Machine Manufacturers Association (JAMMA) wiring standard. [ 1 ]
Head On 2 (1979) [10] G80 [11] [12] Introduced arcade conversion kits where games could be changed in 15 minutes via a card cage housed in game cabinet with six PC boards; kits were sold as Convert-a-Game paks or ConvertaPaks [13] Color display [13] Capable of raster and vector graphics [14] Possessed the world's first color X-Y video system [14]
The exA-Arcadia originally launched as a JVS conversion kit for existing coin-operated arcade cabinets. With its games stored on self-contained solid state media cartridges, a game cabinet can easily be changed to a different game title by swapping the game's cartridge and cabinet artwork.
This is a list of all known Japanese arcade cabinets, also known as "candy cabinets". The majority are sitdown cabinets, with the occasional upright (Sega Swing, SNK MV25UP-0) and cocktail (Sega Aero Table). Construction is usually of metal and plastic, with wood also being used in earlier cabinets.
(1982) by Universal was the first hit arcade game sold as a conversion kit. [5] [6] After the golden age of arcade video games came to an end circa 1983, the arcade video game industry began recovering circa 1985 with the arrival of software conversion kit systems, such as Sega's Convert-a-Game system, the Atari System 1, and the Nintendo VS.
Conversion kit may refer to: Arcade conversion kit, which is used to change the game an arcade machine plays; Miniature conversion kit, equipment used to alter game pieces for miniature, tabletop games. Pinball conversion kit, which is used to re-theme a pinball machine; Vehicle conversion kit, used for electric vehicle conversion
Many arcade systems that don't have a JAMMA compatible connector can be played via adaptors that plug in between the SuperGun's JAMMA interface and the arcade board itself. There exist many non-standalone arcade systems in the form of motherboards that will accept games built into cartridges, for interchangeability.