In the mid-to-late 1990s, arcade manufacturers began utilizing hard drives, laserdiscs, and CD-ROMs to store massive amounts of game data (such as full-motion video or uncompressed audio). Games like Killer Instinct , Area 51 , and NFL Blitz require both a standard .zip ROM file (which holds the motherboard's bios/code) a .chd file (which holds the hard drive data).
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Improved input handling for trackball and shooting games. In the mid-to-late 1990s