Namco's Burning Forceis among the better of these clones, partly because it's based on more
powerful arcade hardware (the Namco System - II, which ran Phelios and Valkyrie no Densetsu, amongst others), and partly because it puts its own unique spin on the formula.
Back in the day, Sega was known for
its powerful arcade hardware.
Not exact matches
Its
powerful FM synthesis - based sound
hardware gave rise to numerous composers still working in the industry today, such as Ryu Umemoto — whose recent work includes Cave's
arcade and Xbox 360 shooting game Akai Katana and the recent Xbox Live Arcade release Nin2 -
arcade and Xbox 360 shooting game Akai Katana and the recent Xbox Live
Arcade release Nin2 -
Arcade release Nin2 - Jump.
Its Amusement Machine (AM) departments were cranking out smash hits like Virtua Racer, Virtua Fighter and Daytona USA and its Model 2
arcade hardware was enormously
powerful.
I knew it was going to be a less
powerful arcade board but I never realised just how less
powerful it is and I think using this
hardware in popular sequels like let's go island and operation ghost is really bad, they should have used the ringedge for those games and use ringwide for basic games like giant Tetris etc (which I know it does anyway) and not games that require more power and it must've back fired as I have seen very little of let's go island despite using cheap
hardware.