 That wouldn’t be legal – those are the property of the companies that created them. One thing though: MAME doesn’t come with all those arcade games.  And MAME supports A LOT of old arcade games (well, some of them aren’t that old, really – it started out tackling games from the late 70’s, early 80’s era, and slowly has moved into modern arcade games.)  All the behaviors and graphics are nearly perfect.įor gamers, it’s a bit of nerdvana.  So when you played, say, Donkey Kong, you were playing the actual program from the arcade, not a re-write someone did many years later.  Simply put, it pretends to be the hardware for old games (an emulator) so you can run the actual real program that the games in the arcade ran. Now, for those who aren’t gamer geeks, emulator freaks, or techies in general:  MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. I have always been a huge fan of MAME, and used to be such a geek about it I nearly celebrated some of the releases that added new games (I remember when Marble Madness finally worked on MAME – that made for a very unproductive day 😉
