Some of you may already use this, but this site is great for figuring out what system your favorite games ran on.
https://www.system16.com/list.php
Arcade PCB System Reference List
Re: Arcade PCB System Reference List
This is a great resource, but be careful with it, because arcade systems are pretty loosely defined. Some come in multiple revisions or configurations, some have hardware split between shared boards and game-specific boards (e.g. games might share a graphics board but have different sound hardware), and occasionally a "system" is just people lumping vaguely similar boards together and ignoring the differences. A quick rule of thumb is whether the games share not only the same MAME driver, but also the same "machine" (fourth argument to the GAME macro).
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Re: Arcade PCB System Reference List
Also, this is not as exhaustive as it may at first appear. For instance, the ENTIRE Mr Do! lineage of games (Universal/Taito) seems to be missing