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Namco System 21
The Namco System 21 "Polygonizer" is an arcade system board unveiled by Namco in 1988 with the game ''Winning Run''. It was the first arcade board specifically designed for 3D polygon processing. The hardware went through significant evolution throughout its lifespan until the last game, ''Cyber Sled'', was released in 1993. It was preceded by the Namco System 2 in 1987 and succeeded by the Namco System 22 in 1993. System 21 specifications The System 21 consists of four PCBs housed in a metal crate. *Main CPU: 2x Motorola 68000 @ 12.288 MHz *DSP (used for performing 3D math): 4x Texas Instruments TMS320C25 @ 24.576 MHz (''Starblade'' uses 5x TMS320C20 instead) *Sound CPU: Motorola 6809 @ 3.072 MHz *Sound Chip: Yamaha YM2151 @ 3.58 MHz * MCU Hitachi HD63705 @ 2.048 MHz * + Namco custom chips Development It was in development for over three years before release, since around the mid-1980s. According to Phil Harrison (in the September 1989 issue of ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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was a Japanese multinational video game and entertainment company, headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo. It held several international branches, including Namco America in Santa Clara, California, Namco Europe in London, Namco Taiwan in Kaohsiung, and Shanghai Namco in mainland China. Namco was founded by Masaya Nakamura on June 1, 1955, as beginning as an operator of coin-operated amusement rides. After reorganizing to Nakamura Seisakusho Co., Ltd. in 1959, a partnership with Walt Disney Productions provided the company with the resources to expand its operations. In the 1960s, it manufactured electro-mechanical arcade games such as the 1965 hit ''Periscope''. It entered the video game industry after acquiring the struggling Japanese division of Atari in 1974, distributing games such as '' Breakout'' in Japan. The company renamed itself Namco in 1977 and published '' Gee Bee'', its first original video game, a year later. Among Namco's first major hits was the fixed shooter ''G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motorola 6809
The Motorola 6809 ("''sixty-eight-oh-nine''") is an 8-bit microprocessor with some 16-bit features. It was designed by Motorola's Terry Ritter and Joel Boney and introduced in 1978. Although source compatible with the earlier Motorola 6800, the 6809 offered significant improvements over it and 8-bit contemporaries like the MOS Technology 6502, including a hardware multiplication instruction, 16-bit arithmetic, system and user stack registers allowing re-entrant code, improved interrupts, position-independent code and an orthogonal instruction set architecture with a comprehensive set of addressing modes. Among the most powerful 8-bit processors of its era, it was also much more expensive. In 1980 a 6809 in single-unit quantities was compared to for a Zilog Z80 and for a 6502. It was launched when a new generation of 16-bit processors were coming to market, like the Intel 8086, and 32-bit designs were on the horizon, including Motorola's own 68000. It was not feature competitiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xevious
is a vertically scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Namco for arcades in 1982. It was released in Japan and Europe by Namco and in North America by Atari, Inc. Controlling the Solvalou starship, the player attacks Xevious forces before they destroy all of mankind. The Solvalou has two weapons at its disposal: a ''zapper'' to destroy flying craft, and a ''blaster'' to bomb ground installations and enemies. It runs on the Namco Galaga arcade system. The game was designed by Masanobu Endō and a small team. Created to rival the success of ''Scramble'', it was originally themed around the Vietnam War and titled ''Cheyenne''. Endō wanted the game to have a detailed, integral storyline and a comprehensive world, and to be welcoming for newer players. Several enemies and characters were made to pay homage to other popular science fiction works, including ''Star Wars'', ''UFO'', ''Alien'', and ''Battlestar Galactica''. ''Xevious'' was praised for its detailed graphi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solvalou
is a 1991 first-person rail shooter arcade game developed and published in Japan by Namco. The sixth entry in the ''Xevious'' series, the player takes control of the Solvalou starship from a first-person perspective as it must destroy the Xevious forces before they take control of Earth. The Solvalou has two weapon types: an air zapper to destroy air-based enemies, and a blaster bomb to destroy ground-stationed enemies. It runs on the Namco System 21 arcade board. ''Solvalou'' was advertised as a "hyper-entertainment machine" for its sit-down cabinet design and 3D shooting gameplay. The game is named after the starship the player controls in the series. Although it proved to be a commercial failure, ''Solvalou'' was well-received by critics for its realism, 3D graphics and impressive hardware capabilities, with some finding it to be better than Namco's previous 3D arcade titles. It was digitally re-released for the Japanese Wii Virtual Console in 2009 as one of the first titles u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Driver's Eyes
is a 1991 3D computer graphics, 3D driving simulation arcade game developed and published in Japan by Namco. The game has a pseudo-panoramic view using three Cathode ray tube, CRT screens; the player would sit in a then-realistic Formula One car cockpit with Liquid crystal display, LCD instruments. The game would start with the player selecting either "easy drive" or "technical drive". Once the selection was made the screen would show a 3D model of a Formula One car with a V8 engine being placed into the engine bay and then the body work gliding down. As that happened the camera view would change and reveal a sign saying "BRAKES ON". When the sign lifted the race would start. Reception In Japan, ''Game Machine'' listed ''Driver's Eyes'' on their May 1, 1991 issue as being the second most-successful upright/cockpit arcade game of the month. Notes References External links 1991 video games Arcade video games Arcade-only video games Formula One video games Namco games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galaxian 3
is a 3D rail shooter video game developed and published by Namco. It was originally a theme park attraction designed for the Expo '90, International Garden and Greenery Exposition (Expo '90) in Japan, and was later released as an arcade game in 1992. The game involves players controlling a starship named the Dragoon in its mission to destroy Cannon Seed, a superweapon set to destroy what is left of the human race. An entry in the ''List of Galaxian video games, Galaxian'' series, ''Galaxian3'' was conceived following Namco's success with motion-based arcade games in the late-1980s, such as ''Final Lap'' and ''Metal Hawk''. The attraction version, housed in a massive circular room and supporting 28 players, was designed by company engineer Shigeki Toyama. He was tasked with making the biggest video game possible to prevent other companies from copying it, in addition to creating a game that showed off Namco's 3D technology. The attraction was moved to Namco's Wonder Eggs theme park ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
