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			[[File:Midway Touchmaster.png\|250px\|thumb]]
	=== History ===		=== History ===
	Midway Games Inc. was established as Midway Manufacturing in 1958 by Henry Ross and Marcine Wolverton in Chicago, Illinois.		Midway Games Inc. was established as Midway Manufacturing in 1958 by Henry Ross and Marcine Wolverton in Chicago, Illinois.

Rick: /* Software Releases */ Cleaned up the software releases

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Software Releases: Cleaned up the software releases

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	The Touchmaster Infinity, being PC-based, uses a harddisk to store its games.		The Touchmaster Infinity, being PC-based, uses a harddisk to store its games.

	Midway Touchmaster:		'''Midway Touchmaster:'''

	* v2.2-01 Standard		* v2.2-01: Standard

	* v3.00 Euro		* v3.00: Euro

	Midway Touchmaster 2000:		'''Midway Touchmaster 2000:'''

	* v4.00 Standard		* v4.00: Standard

	* v4.02 Standard		* v4.02: Standard

	* v4.XX3 Spanish Evaluation		* v4.XX3: Spanish Evaluation

	* v4.63 Standard (2000 Plus)		* v4.63: Standard (2000 Plus)

	Midway Touchmaster 3000:		'''Midway Touchmaster 3000:'''

	* v5.01 Standard		* v5.01: Standard

	* v5.02 Spanish		* v5.02: Standard, Spanish

	* v5.02 Standard		* v5.XX: Standard AMOA Evaluation

	* v5.XX Standard AMOA Evaluation		'''Midway Touchmaster 4000:'''

	~~Midway Touchmaster 4000~~:		* v6.01: Standard, Minnesota

	* v6.~~01 Minnesota~~		* v6.02: Standard, California, England, New Jersey

	* v6.01 Standard		* v6.03: Standard

	* v6.02 California		'''Midway Touchmaster 5000:'''

	* v6.~~02 England~~		* v7.01: Standard

	* v6.02 Standard		* v7.10: Standard, California, Minnesota

	* v6.~~02 New Jersey~~		* v7.11: U.K.

	* v6.03 Standard		'''Midway Touchmaster 7000:'''

	~~Midway Touchmaster 5000~~:		* v8.00: Standard, Minnesota

	* v7.01 Standard		* v8.04: Standard, Germany, Minnesota

	* v7.~~10 California~~		* v8.05: New Jersey

	* v7.~~10 Minnesota~~		* v8.1X: ASI Standard Evaluation

	* v7.10 Standard		'''Midway Touchmaster 8000:'''

	* ~~v7.11 U.K~~.		* v9.02: Standard

	~~Midway Touchmaster 7000:~~		* v9.04: Standard

	* ~~v8.00 Minnesota~~

	* v8.00 Standard

	* v8.04 Germany

	* v8.04 ~~Minnesota~~

	* v8.04 Standard

	* v8.05 New Jersey

	* v8.1X ASI Standard Evaluation

	~~Midway Touchmaster 8000~~:

	* v9.02 Standard

	* v9.04 Standard

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Rick: table of software releases.

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table of software releases.

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{{Infobox company|name=Midway Games Inc.|image=|caption=|type=|fate=Defunct|predecessor=|successor=|founded=1958|defunct=2010|people=|headquarters=Chicago, Illinois, U.S.|website=}}

=== History ===
Midway Games Inc. was established as Midway Manufacturing in 1958 by Henry Ross and Marcine Wolverton in Chicago, Illinois.

The company initially manufactured amusement equipment and became Bally Midway in 1969. In the 70's, it became known in the arcade for games like Pac-Man and Space Invaders. By 1996, it was rechristened Midway Games Inc due to it entering the home console market, but it also released its first touch arcade machine, the Touchmaster, to directly compete with Merit's Megatouch hardware, at one point even selling a conversion kit to put their hardware into a Megatouch chassis. From 1996 to 2000, Midway updated its Touchmaster line yearly, being based on the 68000 processor.

By the late 90's, it became clear that the Touchmaster was never going to have the recognition as Merit. With increasingly more powerful hardware, Midway released one more Touchmaster, the Infinity. A rather powerful PC for touch arcade, it was ultimately unsuccessful. Midway forfeited the Touchmaster platform in 2001, and went defunct in 2010.

=== Machines ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!'''Year'''
!'''Name'''
|-
|1996
|Touchmaster
|-
|1996
|Touchmaster 2000
|-
|1997
|Touchmaster 3000
|-
|1998
|Touchmaster 4000
|-
|1998
|Touchmaster 5000
|-
|1999
|Touchmaster 7000
|-
|2000
|Touchmaster 8000
|-
|2000
|Touchmaster Infinity
|}

=== Software Releases ===
After the original Concorde, JVL's main software range is called iTouch, which has been updated over the years with the latest version being iTouch HD3.

iTouch support depends on the motherboard used:

* JP10: Concorde 3, Concorde 3 Plus, up to iTouch 8
* JP20/JP20-2: up to iTouch 9 or 10
* JP30: up to iTouch 11
* JP70: up to iTouch HD3
* JP90: up to iTouch HD3

{| class="wikitable"
|+
!'''Year'''
!Concorde
!iTouch
!iTouch HD
|-
|1995
|Concorde I
|
|
|-
|1997
|Concorde 2
|
|
|-
|1998
|Concorde 2 (SX) Plus
|
|
|-
|1999
|Concorde 3
|
|
|-
|2000
|Concorde 3 Plus
|
|
|-
|2001
|
|iTouch 4
|
|-
|2002
|
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081113114707/http://www.jvl-ent.com:80/jvlcorp/manuals/iTouch5.pdf iTouch 5]
|
|-
|2003
|
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081113114120/http://www.jvl-ent.com:80/jvlcorp/manuals/iTouch6.pdf iTouch 6]
|
|-
|2004
|
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081113115356/http://www.jvl-ent.com:80/jvlcorp/manuals/iT7.pdf iTouch 7]
|
|-
|2005
|
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081113114529/http://www.jvl-ent.com/jvlcorp/Manuals/itouch8plus_2pages.pdf iTouch 8]
|
|-
|2006
|
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081113114238/http://www.jvl-ent.com/jvlcorp/Manuals/itouch9_sellsheet.pdf iTouch 9]
|
|-
|2008
|
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20081113115547/http://www.jvl-ent.com/jvlcorp/Manuals/iT10.pdf iTouch 10]
|iTouch HD
|-
|2010
|
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20111005132106/http://bmigaming.com/Games/Flyers/video-arcade-games/jvl-itouch11-software-upgrade-brochure-jvl-entertainment.pdf iTouch 11]
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20110206042500/https://www.bmigaming.com/Games/Flyers/video-arcade-games/jvl-itouch-hd2-software-upgrade-brochure-jvl-entertainment.pdf iTouch HD2]
|-
|2014
|
|
|iTouch HD3
|}