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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.
It was among the thirteen highest-grossing arcade games of 1983 in the United States. [28] A cocktail table version was later released, engineered by Leo Ludzia. [11] It is unique among cocktail games with its side-by-side seating rather than opposing sides, [9] [11] allowing Williams to reuse the same ROM chip from the upright cabinets. [6]
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 ]
They released both an upright arcade cabinet and a so-called "cocktail-table" cabinet; following its usual practice, Taito named the cocktail version T.T. Space Invaders ("T.T." for "table-top"). Midway released its upright version a few months later and its cocktail version several months after that.
The table sold 140 units; [13] its failure caused Mirco to not pursue the pinball business until reentering the market with cocktail table pinball model Lucky Draw (1978). At the same show, Mirco also introduced one of the earliest microprocessor-based video games, PT-109 (1975), utilizing the Fairchild F8 microprocessor – which also sold ...
The topic of retro arcade gaming had come up, and while the members had identified efforts to recreate arcade cabinets, these typically cost thousands of U.S. dollars and were heavy, a form that would not be suitable for smaller consumers at home or offices, or use in locations like arcade bars.