TIA-MC-1 (Russian: ТИА-МЦ-1) — Телевизионный Игровой Автомат Многокадровый Цветной (pronounced Televizionniy Igrovoi Automat Mnogokadrovyi Tcvetnoi; meaning Video Game Machine – Multiframe Colour), Russian arcade videogame hardware, with replaceable game programs, one of the most famous Soviet Union arcade machines. Developed in Vinnytsia, Ukraine by Extreme-Ukraine company in the mid-1980s under the leadership of V.B. Gerasimov. The machine was manufactured by production association Terminal and some other factories.
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Some of the TIA-MC-1 based games are:
Arcade machine consists of several boards called BEIA (Russian:БЭИА, Блок Элементов Игрового Автомата, Blok Elementov Igrovogo Automata). The boards have the following purposes:
Games in a TIA-MC-1 arcade machine can be switched by replacing BEIA-103 module, not unlike cartridges in video game consoles.
Main system characteristics are as follows:
For a long time TIA-MC-1 hardware remained unemulated due to lack of technical information and ROM dumps. Soon after the Russian emulation community obtained technical documentation and ROM dumps of one of the games, Konek-Gorbunok, the first emulator named TIA-MC Emulator was released on July 27, 2006. A TIA-MC-1 driver was included in MAME on August 21, 2006 (since version 0.108). By now, only four games (Konek-Gorbunok, S.O.S., Billiard and Snezhnaya koroleva) are dumped and supported by emulators. An ongoing search for other games is in progress.
List of Soviet computer systems