The Namco System N2 is an arcade platform developed by Namco and NVIDIA. It runs on an nForce2-based motherboard developed by NVIDIA. It was announced that the system would be based on a NVIDIA GeForce graphics card, using the OpenGL API. Both Namco System N2 and Namco System ES1 use the Linux operating system that is based on Debian. The Namco System ES2 PLUS and Namco System ES3 run Windows Embedded 7 as their operating system. It runs in an arcade game cabinet designed by Bandai Namco Games. The Namco System BNA1 is a relatively new arcade board that runs Windows 10 IoT. A less powerful version of System BNA1, known as System BNA1 LITE has also been created for less demanding games.

Development

Because the N2, ES1(A2), ES2 Plus and ES3 are based on PC architecture, development for it and porting from it is relatively easy and inexpensive.

Specifications

Namco System N2

Namco System ES1

Namco System ES1(A2) & ES2 PLUS

Namco System ES3

Namco System ES4

Namco System BNA1

List of System N2 games

List of System ES1 games

List of System ES1(A2) games

List of System ES2 Plus games

List of System ES3 games

List of System ES4 games

List of System BNA1 games

List of System BNA1 LITE games

Similar Hardware

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