MAME

Do you have any fond memories of any arcade games? Perhaps you can remember wasting away time when you were younger by blasting a few space invaders, or any of the other hundreds of games that would be found in Arcades up and down the country. If by any chance you do have an urge to play an old arcade machine, chances are you can do this now, just by owning a PC (or other supported platform), this piece of software and some ROM images for the games you wish to play (which can be downloaded from many sites). What is MAME? ============ MAME, is an emulator that emulates many different arcade machines, hence the name which stands for ...

MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a project that has been running since 1997. Basically, it emulates practically all the arcade machines you can remember from when you were a kid. If you’re old like me, and spent any time at all in the arcades, this will suit you down to the ground! In fact, the only game it doesn’t seem to emulate from that era (i.e. early/mid 1980’s) is Dragons’ Lair; any other arcade machine you can think of is probably catered for! Depending on what platform you want to run it on (there are DOS, Windows, Amiga, Mac and Linux ports to the best of my knowledge) you can download it from a number of sources ...

Not just retro, but authentically retro... Most of us have probably wanted to play all those old games, the FOUNDING games, at one point or another. We hear of how important Space Invaders, Asteroids and Pac-Man were to videogaming, and we try to find them. Some adults might even be old enough to remember playing them in the arcade twenty years ago. No doubt most of you have played copies and clones that only hold your interest for five minutes. MAME is the real thing. It is a way to play the genuine arcade games on your PC, and most of the classics are supported. There are many versions of MAME and DOS is supported well. However, I think most ...