So WTH are "Superguns"?

[Lawfer]

WTH is this?

http://www.tops-game.jp/part/usually/05 ... box_02.htm

I am guessing its an arcade cabinet for home use where you put your PCBs in?

[system11]

That's exactly what it is - cab guts in a can.

[Ghegs]

And you can use them with normal home TVs, that's an important bit. So they're basically consolized arcade hardware.

[Lawfer]

Thanks guys, I knew people got PCBs to use with real arcade cabinets but never knew there was better things such as these consolized arcades "superguns", thats quite handy actually, might get unto that one day.

[BuckoA51]

840 posts on here and you don't know what a Supergun is?

[Lawfer]

840 posts on here and you don't know what a Supergun is?

Nope, I never was much unto arcade stuff, I only own only a couple STGs.

[lettuce]

Ive always like the idea of building my own Supergun but with arcade pcb's rising in price all the time that idea looks more and more unlikely to happen

[cyborc]

with the advent of groovymame I've decided not to build a supergun. purists will always want the pcbs though. I totally understand that. but like you said lettuce the prices are getting crazy.

[LEGENOARYNINLIA]

840 posts on here and you don't know what a Supergun is?

Exactly my thoughts (+much much more...)

[kinster]

Google is your friend

[Pasky]

Better question is...why the hell are they called super guns?

[Lawfer]

Better question is...why the hell are they called super guns?

Thats what I was thinking...

[Xyga]

Read somewhere the first models, manufactured by some Japanese or Taiwanese company, were named 'Super Gun' and that name just stuck.

[Ed Oscuro]

And you can use them with normal home TVs

Only if supported, of course. Us in the US with no RGB input standard on TVs have to go to the expense of finding better screens, or having encoders for component / s-video / whatever.

[CkRtech]

Better question is...why the hell are they called super guns?

Thats what I was thinking...

I always have assumed it is a play off of the electron gun inside a CRT - something much more "accessible" when inside an arcade machine as there is no housing around it like a commercial set. It is just an open chassis inside the arcade machine with easy access to the circuit board, neck board, flyback, adjustments, etc.

As this device we are talking about here is designed to be able to take arcade components and "gun the image" to your television/external display rather than to a CRT built into a self-contained arcade machine, it was deemed "supergun."

So the electron beams don't have to stop at the end of the CRT inside the arcade cabinet because they can now go ANYWHERE....

A bit of an abstract term for it as a supergun doesn't literally fire electron beams across the entire planet, but that's my take. I might be way off.