From Naomi to Lindbergh

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Sega gives a final name to its new next generation arcade board.

By Anoop Gantayat

Late last week, IGN gave you a sneak peak at Sega's next generation of arcade gaming as we went hands on with House of the Dead 4. Sporting the best visuals ever seen in the arcades and a 62 inch high definition monitor, Sega has a lot to brag about with its latest title. The only question remaining was, what was the technology behind the game?

Today, we at last have an answer. A flier has surfaced in Japan revealing a name for the arcade board that powers House of the Dead 4: Lindbergh. The flier doesn't reveal specific details on the Lindbergh board, only referring to it as a next generation board.

Sega was known to have been in development with a new arcade board for some time now. The Lindbergh name was leaked months ago, with most unconfirmed reports suggesting the use of a next generation version of the graphics technology that powers the current generation Power VR driven Naomi and Naomi 2 boards.

With the board's debut out of the way, we hope to learn specifics shortly. Sega previously used the September JAMMA arcade show to debut boards such as the Naomi 2, Triforce and Chihiro, so it's likely that we'll see something there.