> > > There were a LOT of these "SNES game on arcade boards" around back when I was in > > high > > > school, in Mexico. I remember seeing a Toy Story one and a Mortal Kombat 3 one. I > > > really wish those were still around, they're probably the same as the SNES game > > > but... it's still curious as hell. > > > > That was pretty common a lot back then. Many of us knew about Super Mario Bros. not > > because a friend next door had a NES at home, but because there was a NES adapted > > Arcade machine near our schools, convenience stores and tortilla shops... along > with > > Atari 2600 adapted Arcade machines. For us Cabal were always a joystick game and we > > didn't know there was a real Arcade version of Kung-Fu Master. We only knew about > the > > NES version played at Arcade places. The tradition continued with X-BOX first > > generation and Xbox 360 adapted Arcade machines with lots of console game emulators > > when they aren't plain PCs, but only before places renting gaming computers and > home > > consoles became popular. > > > > Legend in photo: "Did you know... in the nineties this was: 'going (buying) for > > tortillas'?". > > The SNES single board ones tend to be actually modified to accept credits ingame etc. > tho rather than just having an external credit circuit or bolted on timer like a lot > of the modified things you saw. (system11's current blog update details a SNES one > that was just a multigame with timer and some automatic inputs for recognized games)
Ha, you're basically describing the Tourvision system.
> Also a lot of these chinese ones have other features hacked in, like the stupid > 'press start to change character' function that seems to have been in the majority of > Chinese SF2 hacks too etc. (to me that's a complete anti-feature, but the community > there seem to go mad for it)
The ones I played were modified to accept coins (Start was locked out until a coin was deposited, etc.)
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