Midway

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

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

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		iTouch 5
2003		iTouch 6
2004		iTouch 7
2005		iTouch 8
2006		iTouch 9
2008		iTouch 10	iTouch HD
2010		iTouch 11	iTouch HD2
2014			iTouch HD3