[JohnBooty]

glad to share. it's such a fun topic!

I just thought of this conversation when I saw this video this morning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei1RJ19IriU

it runs through a variety of Sega Model 2 arcade system games. theoretically there were about a dozen "Model 2" games.

buuuuut, as the video details, the "Model 2" moniker refers to an entire generation of Sega arcade boards and there were significant hardware upgrades and new chips added throughout the lifetime of Model 2. with the result actually being something close to bespoke per-game hardware.

also there's this hilarious (to me at least, from an engineering perspective) look at the extremely unique Popeye arcade hardware, with three different graphics chips each drawing different layers on the screen. that was some bespoke-ass hardware

https://nicole.express/2023/yes-popeye-the-sailor-man.html