Namco System 2
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The Namco System 2 arcade system board was first used by Namco in 1987 and was a major enhancement to the previous Namco System 1 arcade system board.
Final Lap was the first game to use this board, and also the first to feature multiplayer. The following year, more games using this board were released, including Assault, Assault Plus, Ordyne, Metal Hawk, Mirai Ninja and Phelios. In 1989 they released Valkyrie No Densetsu, Dirt Fox, Finest Hour, Burning Force, Four Trax and Marvel Land for the System 2 board.
[edit] Namco System 2 Specifications
Processors:
- Main CPU: Motorola 68000 @ 12.288 MHz
- Sub CPU: Motorola 68000 @ 12.288 MHz
- Sound CPU: Motorola 6809 @ 3.072 MHz
- MCU: Hitachi HD68705 @ 2.048 MHz
Video:
- Video resolution 288×224 (horizontal) or 224×288 (vertical)
- Variable-sized display window
- 24-bit RGB palette
- 3 scrolling 512×512 tilemap layers (64×64 characters)
- 1 scrolling 512×256 tilemap layer (64×32 characters)
- 2 fixed 288×224 tilemap layers (36×28 characters)
- 1 fixed rotate/zoom tilemap layer
- roadway generator (driving games only)
- 127 variable-sized sprites (up to 64×64) displayed at once
Sound:
[edit] List of Namco System 2 arcade games:
- Assault (1988)
- Assault Plus (1988)
- Burning Force (1989)
- Cosmo Gang the Video (1991) - game which uses the characters from a popular redemption game released in the previous year
- Dirt Fox (1989)
- Dragon Saber (1990) - sequel to Dragon Spirit
- Final Lap (1987)
- Final Lap 2 (1990)
- Final Lap 3 (1992)
- Finest Hour (1989)
- Four Trax (1989)
- Golly! Ghost! (1990) - electro-mechanical/video game hybrid
- Golly! Ghost! 2 (1991) - electro-mechanical/video game hybrid
- Kyuukai Douchuuki (1990) - baseball game which uses characters from Yokai Douchuuki
- Lucky & Wild (1992)
- Marvel Land (1989)
- Metal Hawk (1988)
- Mirai Ninja (1988)
- Ordyne (1988)
- Phelios (1988)
- Rolling Thunder 2 (1990)
- Steel Gunner (1990)
- Steel Gunner 2 (1991)
- Super World Stadium (1991)
- Super World Stadium '92 (1992)
- Super World Stadium '93 (1993)
- Suzuka 8 Hours (1992)
- Suzuka 8 Hours 2 (1993)
- Valkyrie No Densetsu (1989)