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Namco Thunder Ceptor

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Manufacturer
  
Namco

Release date
  
1986

CPU
  
Hitachi HD63701 (@ 1.536 MHz)

Display
  
Raster, 272 × 224 pixels (Horizontal)

The Namco Thunder Ceptor is an 8-bit arcade game system board which was first used by Namco in 1986 for the Thunder Ceptor video games; it replaced the Namco Libble Rabble as the company's most powerful eight-bit system board.

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Namco Thunder Ceptor specifications

  • Main CPU: Motorola 68000 @ 12.288 MHz
  • Sound CPUs: 2x Motorola M65C02s @ 2.048 MHz (handling the Yamaha YM2151 and the DAC respectively)
  • MCU: Hitachi HD63701 @ 1.536 MHz (handling the Namco CUS30)
  • Sound chips: Yamaha YM2151 @ 3.57958 MHz, Namco CUS30 @ 96 kHz, DAC
  • Video resolution: 272 × 224

    • List of Namco Thunder Ceptor arcade games

  • Thunder Ceptor (1986)
  • 3-D Thunder Ceptor II (1986)

    • References

    Namco Thunder Ceptor Wikipedia
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