neo geo

SNK a small third party software developer for the "nintendo nes", decided to try their idea in the arcade market in 1989. It seemed like a bad business decision since gamers no longer flocked to arcades. But anyway SNK released the MVS (Multi-Video System). The MVS allowed the arcade operator to house many different video games in a single cabinet. The MVS's strengths lay in the design of its hardware. Its brain was composed of a 16-bit microprocessor (68000) and an 8-bit microprocessor (Z80). They were plentiful, cheap, and quite powerful for the time. Using them kept production costs down and made coding much easier. Both the 68000 and the Z80 were in common use at the time (Sega's genesis) had the same CPU combination,for example).