The System N2 arcade platform runs on an nForce2

NForce2

The nForce2 chipset was released by Nvidia in July 2002 as a refresh to the original nForce product offering. The nForce2 chipset was a platform for motherboards supporting AMD's Socket A CPUs along with DDR SDRAM...

-based motherboard

Motherboard

In personal computers, a motherboard is the central printed circuit board in many modern computers and holds many of the crucial components of the system, providing connectors for other peripherals. The motherboard is sometimes alternatively known as the mainboard, system board, or, on Apple...

 that NVIDIA

NVIDIA

Nvidia is an American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California. Nvidia is best known for its graphics processors . Nvidia and chief rival AMD Graphics Techonologies have dominated the high performance GPU market, pushing other manufacturers to smaller, niche roles...

 developed. It is based on a GeForce

GeForce

GeForce is a brand of graphics processing units designed by Nvidia. , there have been eleven iterations of the design. The first GeForce products were discrete GPUs designed for use on add-on graphics boards, intended for the high-margin PC gaming market...

 graphics card, running the graphics in OpenGL

OpenGL

OpenGL is a standard specification defining a cross-language, cross-platform API for writing applications that produce 2D and 3D computer graphics. The interface consists of over 250 different function calls which can be used to draw complex three-dimensional scenes from simple primitives. OpenGL...

 format. It runs a Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 operating system

Operating system

An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...

 that appears to be based on debian

Debian

Debian is a computer operating system composed of software packages released as free and open source software primarily under the GNU General Public License along with other free software licenses. Debian GNU/Linux, which includes the GNU OS tools and Linux kernel, is a popular and influential...

. It runs in an arcade game racing

Racing

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 cabinet designed by Bandai Namco Games.

Development

Because the N2 is based on PC

Personal computer

A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...

 architecture, development for it and porting from it are relatively easy and inexpensive.

List of System N2 games

• Ace Driver 3: Final Turn
  Ace Driver
  Ace Driver is a 3D racing arcade game released by Namco in 1994.The player can choose between Automatic or Manual gear, and Beginner or Expert Class.The cars are:*Team Red Lightning *Scuderia Blue Castle...
  
   (2008)
• Counter-Strike Neo
  Counter-Strike Neo
  Counter-Strike Neo is a Japanese arcade adaptation of Counter-Strike, the original Half-Life multiplayer modification. It is published by Namco, and runs on a Linux system....
  
   (2005)
• Counter-Strike Neo Ver.2
  Counter-Strike Neo
  Counter-Strike Neo is a Japanese arcade adaptation of Counter-Strike, the original Half-Life multiplayer modification. It is published by Namco, and runs on a Linux system....
  
   (2006)
• Counter-Strike Neo White Memories
  Counter-Strike Neo
  Counter-Strike Neo is a Japanese arcade adaptation of Counter-Strike, the original Half-Life multiplayer modification. It is published by Namco, and runs on a Linux system....
  
   (2006)
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield (2007)
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield Ver.1.05 (2008)
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield Ver.1.07 (2009)
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield Ver.2.10 (2010)
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield Ver.2.13 (2010)
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield Ver.2.14 (2010)
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield Ver.2.15 (2010)
• Mobile Suit Gundam: Spirits of ZEON
  Mobile Suit Gundam
  is a televised anime series, created by Sunrise. Created and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network on April 7, 1979, and lasted until January 26, 1980, spanning 43 episodes...
  
   (2006)
• Moto GP (2007)
• New Space Order
  New Space Order
  New Space Order is an RTS currently in production in Japan by Bandai Namco Games. It contains elements from the Xevious video game series. In the game, there is an interplanetary nation called the "Military Empire," which the population speaks the Xevi language, the same language spoken by the...
  
   (2007)
• Wangan Midnight: Maximum Tune 3 (2007)
• Wangan Midnight: Maximum Tune 3DX (2008)
• Wangan Midnight: Maximum Tune 3DX Plus (2010)

List of SystemES1 games

• Dead Heat Street Racing / Maximum Heat (2011)
• Nirin (2009)
• Tank! Tank! Tank!
  Tank! Tank! Tank!
  Tank! Tank! Tank! is a family-friendly action video arcade game that was released in 2009 to a Japanese and North American market.-General information:In this game, the player controls a tank and has to shoot monsters with ammunition...
  
   (2009)

List of SystemES1A2 games

• Mobile Suit Gundam: Bonds of the Battlefield Ver.3.00 (2011)
• Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 4 (2011)

Similar Hardware

The SEGA

Sega

, usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world...

 Lindbergh, Taito's Taito Type X

Taito Type X

The Taito Type X is an arcade system board released by Taito Corporation in 2004. Based on commodity PC hardware architecture, Type X is not a specification for a single set of hardware, but rather a modular platform supporting multiple hardware configurations with different levels of graphical...

 and Taito Type X+ operate in a similar way to the N2 platform, except that they use other operating systems.