Nintendo VS Red Tent Arcade Video Game

  
This is an all original Nintendo vs red tent. Everything works except 2nd monitor. The monitor is intact and tube and chassis all present and complete. Sharp xm1801/2001 monitors very hard to find so this only needs repair. Needs a new fly back and could use a fresh cap kit. Currently running wrecking crew on both sides for player vs player action. The Nintendo Red Tent is a two-player cocktail style cabinet where players play facing each other on two separate monitors. Released in 1984 in both upright and sit-down formats, the machine utilises Nintendo's proprietary.

The latter allowing for connected multi-screen gaming. Itself mirrors Nintendo's NES home console hardware very closely - in fact, many of the games available for the hardware are based on NES releases from around the same time. Released in kit form initially, to convert. Upright Nintendo cabinets, what made the.

Attractive to arcade operators was the ability to change games by simply swapping out ROM chips on the main PCB - providing a much more cost-effective solution to the constant demands from arcade players for new games. Meant that operators could rotate games easily, and at a fraction of the usual cost because the same cabinet is used every time. That was developed and produced by Nintendo. It is based on most of the same hardware as the Family Computer. (Famicom), later released as the Nintendo Entertainment System.

As Nintendo was planning to release the NES in North America, they were aware of the video game crash of 1983. And its effects on the home console market. However by March 1984 the arcade industry. Recovered enough for a plan to introduce NES titles there, with the VS.

System later being a presentation to players who did not yet own the console. It became the first version of the Famicom hardware to debut in North America. Most of its games are conversions from the Famicom and NES, some heavily altered for the arcade format, and some debuted on the VS. System before being released on the Famicom or NES.

The system focuses on two-player cooperative play. It was released in three different configurations: upright VS. DualSystem cabinets, and sit-down VS. Games are on pluggable circuit boards, allowing for each side to have a different game. System did not have lasting popularity in Japan, leading to Nintendo's departure from arcade game development.

In contrast, it was a commercial success in the United States, with about 100,000 arcade cabinets. The system's success in arcades proved the market for the test release of the NES. In North America in 1985. System game was released in 1990.