Does that matter? As we’ll see, this board doesn’t need to do as much work as King of Fighters ‘97.Īnother key feature of the 60-in-1 is its VGA port and PC Molex power supply ports. As a result, it lacks things like “Intel® Wireless MMX™ Technology”. I’m not sure if this is a new chip or a module that was salvaged from elsewhere. This here is a PXA225, which seems to be a little older than the PXA270 the King of Fighters ‘97 board used. For example, both are powered by Intel XScale-derived ARM CPUs. (That’s half the size of a standard 8.5”x11” American sheet of printer paper, for scale) The board reminds me of the King of Fighters ‘97 pirate board I looked at a year ago. Mine came as a bare board with this adorable little folded-paper manual. Have you ever heard of the 60-in-1? If you look around on the modern retro arcade scene, this is practically ubiquitous (can easily find at least one machine featuring on on my local craigslist with less than a minute of searching), but outside of it, I’m not sure that’s so. And hey, look at that– it even plays Pac-Man. And so, doing a very scientific survey of one (1) barcade, I’ve found that there might be another competitor at least, if we only look at boards. But there have been a lot of years since 1980.
What’s the best-selling arcade game? The usual answer seems to be Namco’s Pac-Man.
