<s>
The	O
Bubble	B-Application
System	I-Application
is	O
an	O
arcade	O
system	O
board	O
designed	O
by	O
Konami	O
and	O
used	O
across	O
many	O
arcade	O
games	O
in	O
1985	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Konami	O
announced	O
coin-op	O
arcade	B-Application
video	I-Application
games	I-Application
for	O
the	O
system	O
on	O
January	O
12	O
,	O
1985	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Bubble	B-Application
System	I-Application
introduced	O
a	O
unique	O
new	O
form	O
of	O
data	O
storage	O
for	O
arcade-style	O
video	O
games	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
used	O
bubble	B-General_Concept
memory	I-General_Concept
cartridges	O
,	O
a	O
sort	O
of	O
non-mechanical	O
magnetic	O
storage	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
said	O
to	O
have	O
a	O
higher	O
reliability	O
than	O
mechanical	O
floppy	B-Device
disks	I-Device
or	O
tape	O
drives	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
main	O
CPU	O
was	O
a	O
Motorola	B-Device
68000	I-Device
at	O
10	O
MHz	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
was	O
a	O
separate	O
Zilog	B-General_Concept
Z80	I-General_Concept
for	O
sound	O
control	O
,	O
which	O
drove	O
two	O
AY-3-8910s	B-Device
,	O
a	O
custom	O
Konami	O
SCC	O
(	O
K005289	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
a	O
Sanyo	O
VLM5030	O
speech	B-Application
synthesizer	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bubble	O
Software	O
can	O
be	O
identified	O
by	O
its	O
booting	B-Operating_System
sequence	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
reason	O
this	O
was	O
implemented	O
was	O
because	O
bubble	B-General_Concept
memory	I-General_Concept
must	O
be	O
heated	O
to	O
around	O
for	O
it	O
to	O
work	O
properly	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
game	O
must	O
be	O
copied	O
from	O
the	O
bubble	B-General_Concept
memory	I-General_Concept
into	O
RAM	O
,	O
before	O
it	O
can	O
be	O
run	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Bubble	B-Application
System	I-Application
became	O
a	O
commercial	O
failure	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Most	O
games	O
on	O
this	O
system	O
were	O
eventually	O
ported	O
to	O
standard	O
ROM	B-Device
chips	I-Device
,	O
and	O
it	O
was	O
discontinued	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Konami	O
has	O
made	O
homages	O
to	O
the	O
Bubble	B-Application
System	I-Application
in	O
several	O
games	O
;	O
with	O
the	O
Morning	O
Music	O
being	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
playable	O
tracks	O
in	O
Keyboardmania	B-Application
and	O
NOSTALGIA	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
intro	O
of	O
Konami	B-Device
Classics	I-Device
Series	I-Device
:	I-Device
Arcade	I-Device
Hits	I-Device
featuring	O
the	O
song	O
too	O
.	O
</s>
