Taito will port Valve"s upcoming FPS to its new TypeX arcade hardware, ships worldwide in summer 2005.
Taito today announced that it has signed an agreement with Valve Software to release Half-Life 2 in arcades. It will run on Taito"s new arcade hardware, which is called the TypeX. Given the title"s strong name recognition, Taito hopes to release the arcade version worldwide, and it is currently slated for a summer 2005 release.
As GameSpot reported from the Amusement Machine show this past September, Taito"s TypeX board is based off the architecture of an ATX IBM-compatible PC. Since the hardware is, for all intents and purposes, identical to the PC format and uses the Windows XP Embedded operating system, PC games can be ported to the platform with great ease. TypeX cabinets come standard with AGP Radeon 9200SE (128MB) graphics cards that can be upgraded to X800XT cards, if required.