There's a new arcade board in town, and it's name is…
Lindbergh? You mean, like the first guy to
fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean Lindbergh?
Well, I suppose Sega'd like to think of themselves as high-flying pioneers or something. I guess they also didn't
want to be stuck fiddling with a console-based board again (the Chihiro was based on the original Xbox), so
they've gone with high-end PC components for their arcade setup this time around instead: "an Intel Pentium 4 that
runs at 3GHz, an Nvidia GPU with dual-screen output, and a 64-channel Digital Signal Processor for its audio."
But, of course, you can't have an arcade board without arcade games, so Sega also brought some trailers to
yesterday's Amusement Machine (AM) Show for Virtua Fighter 5, After Burner 4, House of the
Dead 4, Power Smash 3 (aka Virtua Tennis 3), and Psy-Phi (a new Yu Suzuki-produced
"shooting fighting game" which uses "a touch-sensitive screen for all of its controls"). I think using the latest
hardware for your arcade innards is a great idea, but isn't Akira (pictured up top) lookin' a little bit like some
mish-mash of Tekken's
Paul Phoenix and
Kazuya Mishima lately (with that grizzled look and a
little scar to match)? Ah well, maybe it's just me.
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