- CPS (arcade hardware)
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title= Capcom Play System
caption= A CPS board
developer=Capcom
publisher=Capcom
released= July 1988
input= 8-wayjoystick , from 3 to 6 buttons
cabinet= upright
cpu= Motorola 68000 (@ 8~11 MHz)
sound= Sound CPU: Z80 (@ 3.579545 MHz) YM2151 (@ 3.579545 MHz), OKI6295 (@ 6.061 kHz)
display= Raster, 384 x 224pixel s (Horizontal), 4096 colorsThe nihongo|CPS|CPシステム|shīpī shisutemu or Capcom Play System is anarcade system board byCapcom that debuted in 1988 with "Forgotten Worlds ". Capcom's popular fighting game "Street Fighter II ", and its two revisions, ' and ', ran on this board.History
After a number of arcade game boards designed to run only one game, Capcom embarked upon a project to produce a system board that could be used to run multiple games, in order to reduce hardware costs and make the system more appealing to arcade operators.
The system was plagued by many bootleg versions of its games. In particular, there were so many bootleg versions of "Street Fighter II", they were in some countries more common than the official version. This problem was virtually eliminated by Capcom in the later
CPS-2 .The CPS-1 hardware was also utilized in Capcom's unsuccessful attempt at home console market penetration, the CPS Changer
List of games
ee also
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CPS-2
*CPS-3 External links
* [http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=793 CPS-1 at System 16 - The Arcade Museum]
* [http://gamesx.com/wiki/doku.php?id=controls:capcompowerstick GameSX Power Stick Analysis] - looking at the features and functions of the A10CA stick.
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