ARCADE SYSTEM BOARD

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.

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List of Arcade system boards

★ M-10 ★ M-62 ★ M-107

★ Mega System 32

★ Super NOVA System

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List of Arcade system boards

===Capcom===

★ Capcom Play System 1

★ Capcom Play System 2

★ Capcom Play System 3
===Data East===

★ MLC System
===Gaelco===

★ Gaelco GAE1
===IGS===

★ PolyGame Master
===Irem/Data East

★ M-10

★ M-62

★ M-107

Jaleco

★ Mega System 32

Kaneko

★ Super NOVA System

Konami===

★ Bubble System

★ GX System

★ GV System

★ GQ System

★ Hornet System

★ System 573
===Midway===

★ Astrocade ★ MCR ★ MCR II ★ MCR III ★ MCR-68 ★ Y-Unit (1991-1992)

★ T-Unit (1993) ★ X-Unit (1994; used only in Revolution X) ★ Wolf Unit (1994-1996) ★ V-Unit (1995-1996) ★ Zeus ★ Zeus II

★ Seattle ★ Vegas

===Namco===

★ Namco Pac-Man ★ Namco Galaga ★ Namco Libble Rabble ★ Namco Pole Position ★ Namco Super Pac-Man ★ Namco System 86 ★ Namco System 1 ★ Namco System 2 ★ Namco NA-1 ★ Namco NB-1 ★ Namco ND-1

★ Namco System FL ★ Namco System 11 ★ Namco System 21 ★ Namco System 22 ★ Namco System 23 ★ Namco System 246 ★ Namco System 256 ★ Triforce

===Nintendo===

★ PlayChoice-10

★ Super System

★ VS. UniSystem and VS. DualSystem

★ Triforce
===Sammy===

★ Atomiswave

★ SSV (Sammy, Seta, Visco)
===Sega===

★ Sega System 1 ★ Sega System 2 ★ Sega System E ★ Sega System 16 ★ Sega System 18 ★ Sega System 24

★ Sega System 32 ★ Sega System C2 ★ Sega G80 ★ Sega Megatech ★ Sega Mega Play ★ Sega Model 1 ★ Sega Model 2

★ Sega Model 3 ★ Sega Titan Video ★ Sega NAOMI ★ Sega HIKARU ★ Sega Chihiro ★ Sega Lindbergh ★ Triforce

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★ SPI System
===SNK===

★ Neo Geo MVS

★ Hyper Neo Geo 64
===Sony===

★ ZN-1

★ ZN-2
===Taito===

★ G-NET System

★ Taito B System

★ Taito F3 System

★ Taito L System

★ Taito SJ System

★ Taito X System

★ Taito Z System

★ TypeX / TypeX+
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