That's an interesting find. I never knew they made an arcade machine out of the CD32. A pity it only appeared in Italy though, and with so few games specially made for it. The CD32 had a lot of potential and I guess it could have been popular in the arcades with the right games.
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That's the main problem.
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Did you know that the Transport Museum in London also used the CD32?

It was responsible for the original development of the SX-1 expansion too. They had been using a few laserdisc players to stream interactive information to a few areas of the museum, but they were getting old and they needed a replacement with more interactivity. They ended up creating touch screen information kiosks around the museum that were connected to a lot of CD32's running in a central room, with each running a Scala created interactive CD presentation for the various areas of the museum. I visited shortly after reading about this in AUi and it worked well. I have no idea how long they continued to use them, or if they are in fact still using them still.
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109 of them, to be exact!

I think they refurbished the Museum in 2005 so they might have disappeared then (or not if they were still working and still suitable for the job).
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Never heard of the Arcadia or the Cubo CD32.

Interesting about that transport museum using CD32s. I think I've seen you post about that before. Maybe email them and ask perhaps.
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