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> > > 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.)