DECO Cassette System
The DECO Cassette System was introduced in 1980 by Data East and was the first standardised arcade system that allowed arcade owners to change games.
The arcade owner would buy a base cabinet, while the games were stored on standard audio cassettes. The arcade owner would insert the cassette and a security dongle into the cabinet. When the cabinet was powered up, the program from the tape would be copied into the cabinet's RAM chips; this process took about two to three minutes. After this, the game could be played freely until the cabinet was rebooted.
It was revolutionary for its time, but arcade owners complained about the potential unreliability of the cassettes (which could be demagnetized easily), as well as the medium's standard load times.
Most games for the platform are playable in MAME.
Game list
- Angler Dangler
- Astro Fantazia
- Bambolin
- Boulder Dash
- Bump 'n' Jump
- Buramzon
- BurgerTime
- Burnin' Rubber
- Cluster Buster (also known as Graplop and Flying Ball)
- Disco No. 1 (also known as Sweet Heart)
- DS TeleJang
- Explorer
- Fighting Ice Hockey
- Geinohijin Sikaku Siken
- Genesis
- Hello Gate Ball
- Highway Chase (also known as Mad Alien)
- Kamikaze Cabbie
- Lock 'n' Chase
- Lucky Poker
- Manhattan
- Missile Sprinter
- Nebula
- Night Star
- Oh Zumou
- Peter Pepper's Ice Cream Factory
- Pro Bowling
- Pro Soccer (1983 video game)
- Pro Tennis
- Rootin Tootin (also known as La Pa Pa)
- Scrum Try
- Sengoku Ninja Tai (also known as Ninja)
- Skater
- Super Astro Fighter
- Super Doubles Tennis
- Terranean
- The DECO Kid (also known as Flash Boy)
- The Tower
- Tokyo Mie Sinryohjyo 2
- Tokyo Mie Sinryohjyo
- Tornado
- Treasure Island
- Zeroize