Sega may have stopped at consoles, but their arcade business was booming. The Sega NAOMI board is one of the premier arcade motherboards of the era it was in, coming out with multiple releases and with multiple ROM attachment options it was incredibly versatile for game center operators. The first NAOMI board was released in 1998 alongside the Dreamcast, and more or less used the same architecture but could pump out a lot more graphically thanks to its better FGPA, double the RAM, quadruple the sound RAM, and a faster PowerVR2 graphics chip.
The NAOMI was so successful in revitalising the Arcade scene that it held a long lasting legacy, and was still in use all the way into 2009 because the systems could be stacked via parallel processing for higher graphics output.
Capcom brought Gun Survivor 2 to the arcade scene during this era, which is something wild to think about but shows how good a partnership they had at the time in the industry. While it was, for a time, the only arcade release for Biohazard, there was also the Biohazard 4D-Executer experience at SEGA Joypolis in Umeda and Okayama which were less games and more immersive experiences with gimmick chairs. There have also since been numerous pachislot releases (which are gambling machines instead of traditional arcade games, but would suitably go here for their nature of being coin-based games albeit with more sinister connotations,) and as of the 30th Anniversary in 2026 an arcade version of Biohazard RE:2.
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[AC01] GUN SURVIVOR 2 BIOHAZARD CODE: Veronica
