What to do with an old arcade machine board?

The answer? The same as what Ashley Madison users do with not-their-wives. Mount it!

This board has been gathering dust for years – and finally it has been moved to a place of honour on the wall.

ST-V was supposedly named after a moon of Saturn: the Sega Titan Video game system. The Sega ST-V system was essentially the same tech that was in the Sega Saturn home console, converted for arcade – but instead of using CDs, it runs games off big chunky cartridges. Seriously, that cart is huge – about four times the size of a N64 game.

I’ve read reports that the system was released in 2005, though this particular one is clearly marked 2004.

The cartridge pictured is an interesting one – initially released as Dynamite Deka in Japan, it was re-badged as Die Hard Arcade overseas to capitalise on the movie of the same name. However, it has absolutely nothing to do with Die Hard, other than you play a cop that beats people up.

I have fond memories of Die Hard Arcade from my 90s childhood – but as a system derived from the sadly underwhelming Sega Saturn (which I still maintain as the fault of game developers rather than the beloved console), on the wall is probably the best place for it.