Midway T Unit
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The Midway T Unit is an arcade system board
Arcade system board
An arcade system board is a dedicated computer system created for the purpose of running video arcade games. Arcade system boards typically consist of a main system board with any number of supporting boards...

 designed by Midway
Midway Games
Midway Games, Inc. is an American company that was formerly a major video game publisher. Following a bankruptcy filing in 2009, it is no longer active and is in the process of liquidating all of its assets. Midway's titles included Mortal Kombat, Ms.Pac-Man, Spy Hunter, Tron, Rampage, the...

 and successor to the Midway Y Unit. The T Unit made its debut in 1993 with the release of Mortal Kombat II
Mortal Kombat II
Mortal Kombat II is a competitive fighting game originally produced by Midway Games for the arcades in . It is the second game in the Mortal Kombat series. Like its predecessor, various home versions were produced...

.

Specifications

  • Main CPU: TMS34010
    TMS34010
    The TMS34010 was the first programmable graphics processor integrated circuit . First silicon was working at Texas Instruments in Houston in December 1985, and first shipment was to IBM's workstation facility in Kingston, New York, in January 1986...

     @ 6.25 MHz
  • Sound CPU: M6809 @ 2 MHz
  • Sound chip: YM2151 @ 3.57958 MHz, DAC, OKI MSM6295 @ 8 kHz


Mortal Kombat II uses the DCS
Digital Compression System
Digital Compression System, or DCS, is a sound system developed by Williams Electronics. This advanced sound board, used for Williams and Bally pinball games and coin-op arcade video games by Midway Manufacturing, became the standard sound system for these names.The DCS Sound system was created by...

 Sound System (ADSP2105 @ 10 MHz and a DMA-driven DAC).

List of T Unit games

  • Judge Dredd
    Judge Dredd
    Judge Joseph Dredd is a comics character whose strip in the British science fiction anthology 2000 AD is the magazine's longest running . Dredd is an American law enforcement officer in a violent city of the future where uniformed Judges combine the powers of police, judge, jury and executioner...

     (prototype, unreleased)
  • Mortal Kombat (Version 4.0-5.0)
  • Mortal Kombat II
    Mortal Kombat II
    Mortal Kombat II is a competitive fighting game originally produced by Midway Games for the arcades in . It is the second game in the Mortal Kombat series. Like its predecessor, various home versions were produced...

  • NBA Jam
    NBA Jam
    NBA Jam is a basketball arcade game developed by Midway in 1993. It is the first entry in the NBA Jam series, and was written entirely in assembly language. The main designer and programmer for this game was Mark Turmell...

  • NBA Jam Tournament Edition

List of Y Unit games

  • Terminator 2: The Arcade Game (Version LA1)
  • Mortal Kombat (Version 1.0-4.0)
  • Total Carnage
  • Trog
  • Trog: Prototype Version
  • Smash TV
  • Hi-Impact Football
  • Strike Force
  • Super Hi-Impact Football

List of V Unit games

  • Cruis'n World
  • Cruis'n USA
  • War Gods
  • Off Road Challenge

List of Wolf Unit Games

  • Mortal Kombat 3
  • Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
  • NBA Hangtime
  • Rampage World Tour
  • NHL: 2-on-2 Open Ice Challenge
  • WWF: WrestleMania
  • Maximum NBA Hangtime

List of X Unit Game

  • Terminator 2: The Arcade Game (Version LA2 & LA3)
  • Revolution X
    Revolution X
    Revolution X is a arcade rail shooter game developed and published by Midway, featuring the rock band Aerosmith. The game features gameplay similar to Midway's earlier Terminator 2: Judgment Day...

    (Revision 1.0 6/16/1994)
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