Namco Thunder Ceptor
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.
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 (for music), Namco CUS30 @ 96 kHz (for effects), DAC (for speech)
- Video resolution: 272 × 224
List of Namco Thunder Ceptor arcade games
- Thunder Ceptor (1986)
- 3-D Thunder Ceptor II (1986)