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Upright cabinets. Upright cabinets are the most common in North America, with their design heavily influenced by Computer Space and Pong.While the futuristic look of Computer Space 's outer fiberglass cabinet did not carry forward, both games did establish separating parts of the arcade machine for the cathode-ray tube (CRT) display, the game controllers, and the computer logic areas.
Reusing old cabinets made a lot of sense, and it was realized that the cabinets were a different market from the games themselves. The JAMMA standard allowed plug-and-play cabinets to be created (reducing the cost to arcade operators) where an unprofitable game could be replaced with another game by a simple swap of the game's PCB.
The cabinets were prepared as ready-to-assemble kits for the consumer to complete at home, providing pre-cut fiberboard frame components for the cabinet's sides including stickers for the game marquees, a 17" LCD screen, controller panel, and emulation hardware and power componentry to run the game. [3]
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.
The Atari System 1 was Atari Games' first upgradeable arcade game hardware platform. Introduced in 1984, the System 1 platform was used for the following games: Marble Madness (1984) Peter Pack Rat (1985) Road Runner (1985) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1985) RoadBlasters (1987)
The amount of classic Russian arcade games from the '70s, '80s and '90s that revolved around military activities is, well, not all that surprising. These games were created during the Cold War ...