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Lucky & Wild - Episode 153

Podouken · December 17, 2025

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Yeah. So the hardware is neat on this. So it's, it runs the, the baseboard is a Namco system too, which like, there's a lot of games that run on that hardware. We've had a couple. So like, you had an assault cabinet for a while. So that's the same kind of baseboard. Some other ones are like Cosmo gang golly ghosts. We've talked about that before, uh, Metal Hawk, Steel Gunner. But what's unique about this game, um, there's actually a couple there's final lap, uh, four tracks, Suzuka eight hours is another pretty common one. And lucky and wild, it had like a special kind of like graphics board, almost like its own like graphics section on the actual hardware. Um, so it's pretty neat. Again, it's the Namco system too. Unfortunately, super expensive hardware nowadays. I don't think I've ever owned a Namco system to where I know you, again, you did, you had an assault. We worked, I've worked on a couple, but I've never owned one. Yeah. I was looking at

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... develop this and the newest hottest visual style at the time, which was polygons. Said they leaned on doing the most they could with the system to hardware. Yeah. With those 2D sprites we talked Yeah. So the hardware is neat on this. So it's, it runs the, the baseboard is a Namco system too, which like, there's a lot of games that run on that hardware. We've had a couple. So like, you had an assault cabinet for a while. So that's the same kind of baseboard. Some other ones are like Cosmo gang golly ghosts. We've talked about that before, uh, Metal Hawk, Steel Gunner. But what's unique about this game, um, there's actually a couple there's final lap, uh, four tracks, Suzuka eight hours is another pretty common one. And lucky and wild, it had like a special kind of like graphics board, almost like its own like graphics section on the actual hardware. Um, so it's pretty neat. Again, it's the Namco system too. Unfortunately, super expensive hardware nowadays. I don't think I've ever owned a Namco system to where I know you, again, you did, you had an assault. We worked, I've worked on a couple, but I've never owned one. Yeah. I was looking at had five CPUs on the main board, which is ridiculous. Yes. And then, um, with, with this ...

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