PGM (Polygame Master) System BIOS

Arcade System published 28 years ago:

PGM [PolyGame Master] (c) 1997 IGS Co., Ltd.

The IGS PolyGame Master is an arcade system released by IGS in 1997. It features many video games, the most notable of which are the titles from the Knights of Valour series.

- TECHNICAL -

Main processor: Motorola 68000, running at 20 MHz
Sound processor: Zilog Z80, running at 8.468 MHz
Sound chip: ICS2115; 32 channel PCM
Protection chip: ARM7 ASIC with internal code, running at 20 MHz
Hardware features: 1 scrolling 8×8 tiles 4bpp scrolling tilemap, 32×32 tiles 5bpp scrolling tilemap with linescroll, arbitrary size 5bpp sprites, zoom and shrink capabilities

- TRIVIA -

The PGM was developed in order to compete with the likes of SNK's Neo Geo MVS system in Taiwan.

It was succeeded by PGM2 in 2007, and PGM3 in 2012.

In April 2023, IGS released the IGS Classic Arcade Collection on the Nintendo Switch, a compilation of eight games originally created for the IGS PolyGame Master.

- CONTRIBUTE -

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