DECO Cassette System is the first unified arcade platform released by Data East in 1980. Unlike the early arcade game machines , which used unique equipment for each game, this system made it possible to use the same equipment for executing replaceable game programs.
Games for the system were stored on ordinary tape cassettes . To protect against copying, dongles (electronic keys) were used. The cassette and dongle were installed in the gaming machine, when you turn on the game program was loaded into the RAM of the machine. The boot process took about two minutes.
Advertising materials mentioned that more than 35,000 DECO slot machines were operating in the world. [one]
The disadvantages of the system were the low reliability of the cassette tapes and the low quality of games for the system.
Currently, DECO equipment is emulated in a multi-system MAME slot machine emulator .
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Features
- Processors : MOS 6502 at 750 kHz , MOS 6502 at 500 kHz and Intel 8041 at 500 kHz
- Video: 240 Γ 240, 32 colors
- Sound: two microchips AY-3-8910
Game List
- Burgertime
- Bump 'n' jump
- Burnin 'rubber
- Cobra command
- Super astro fighter
- Boulder dash
- Kamikaze Cabbie
- Manhattan
- Missile sprinter
- Nebula
- The tower
- Buramzon
- Astro fantasy
- DS TeleJang
- Disco No. 1 (also known as Sweet Heart )
- Treasure island
- Lucky poker
- Cluster Buster (also known as Graplop or Flying Ball )
- Terranean
- Angler dangler
- Rootin Tootin (also known as La Pa Pa )
- Skater
- Night star
- Super doubles tennis
- Tornado
- Explorer
- Genesis
- Bambolin
- Zeroize
- Scrum try
- Peter Pepper's Ice Cream Factory
- Lock 'n' Chase
- Pro tennis
- Pro bowling
- Pro soccer
- Fighting ice hockey
- Oh zumou
- Hello gate ball
- Highway Chase (also known as Mad Alien )
- Sengoku Ninja Tai (also known as Ninja )
- The DECO Kid (also known as Flash Boy )
- Tokyo Mie Sinryohjyo
- Tokyo Mie Sinryohjyo 2
- Geinohijin Sikaku Siken
See also
- History of computer games