Unlike most vintage console or computer games, arcade games can be both difficult to find and expensive to buy, so many arcade fans use emulators to create their own homebrewed arcade systems. The ...

Every once in a while, we get a question about those old games that were once the bleeding edge of entertainment in arcades and bars. Invariably from someone who played them and misses them—not from ...

I thought this day would never come, but MAME—the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator that would let you play retro games—is now available for free in the Apple app ...

MAME just released version 0.280, and one of the most exciting additions is the emulation of a super-rare 1986 arcade game called 119 from Coreland and Sega. There are many other small improvements, ...

I was thinking of having some retro fun with MAME on the weekend, but as soon as I see a list of some 3000 odd ROMs I suddenly forget every game I've ever played. And then I dribble. So I was ...

Although the new games are still pretty exciting, it does not quite hit the spot as nostalgia does when playing an epic ROM game which most early gamers grew up on. Although some of the newer gamers ...

This isn't a new development, but we're now in an era where some emulators are old enough to be run inside other emulators. MAME is best known as a preservation effort for old arcade games, but it ...

Vector based displays were used for arcade games in the ’70s and ’80s. A typical CRT uses raster graphics, which are displayed by deflecting a beam in a grid pattern onto a phosphor. A vector display ...

Typically when we talk about 'accuracy' as it relates to retro game emulation, it's about how closely modern software can replicate the functions of retro hardware, exactly as those machines worked ...

I'm wondering if there are some experienced MAMErs out there who can school a newbie on how to get MAME to actually work. I'm finding that only about 10-20% of the ...