I got into MAME the first few versions it was out. I still remember getting jazzed with the news that the Atari 2600 could actually be played on a computer, then trying it out and only getting a single dot to show up on the screen (it didn't work), and I STILL thought it was great. I thought that was super exciting, even when it didn't work. If I recall the first system I played via emulation was the Colecovision. So the progression that people were creating emulators which could make your pc simulate actual console and arcade games was huge news. In the early-mid 90's if you were interested in classic gaming, unless you collected real cabs, PC/DOS remakes of arcade classics were the main things around. edu roots) and have it attached it here daves video game classic.zip. The site I used to frequent all the time was Dave's Video Game Classics which I actually saved a version of the site from 1996 (after it left it's. ![]() I still remember Mame was a new standalone Pac-Man emulator which eventually got renamed (to "Mame") after it kept adding more games. ![]() I got into the emulation scene really early on. And as a result has renewed my interest in video gaming as I've been spending a lot of time the last 4 years playing pinball. Much more pleasant gaming experience than standing at an arcade cabinet. I bought a Raspberry Pi and now I play MAME and other emulated consoles with RetroPie while I sit my fat ass in the recliner with a Xbox 360 controller off the big screen. I sold all that stuff by last summer and populated my small game room with pinball machines instead. Do!, Missile Command, Cosmic Alien and a few others. And I had yet another MAME cabinet plus I added dedicated games like Monaco GP, Mr. I didn't want to sodomize that cabinet with a trackball so I built another MAME cabinet out of a gutted Centipede to play trackball games. Then in the summer of 2009 I built my first MAME cabinet. It wasn't until December of 2008 when I saw the movie Chasing Ghosts by chance one night on Showtime that I found out that retrogaming was a thing. ![]() It didn't get me back into retrogaming though to be honest as from the early to mid 2000s I was more into computers and networking and I was spending time with kids and what not. So probably that night I went searching for an emulator pretty sure it was MAMEUI32 and then after trial and error figured out how all this stuff is supposed to work. At the time I had no interest in video gaming whatsoever but I thought it would be cool to play Galaga. There was some friend of a friend that was all excited and telling me about MAME and ROMs. I remember the first time I heard about it was the late 90s at some get together my wife and I went to. Tell me how you felt when you first got into emulation. And if I ever met guys who were involved the beers would be on me. MAME, for me, is the most important thing that has ever been released on home computers. Yesterday I played Raiden Fighters and its sequels. There are weeks that I don't play but sometimes I spend hours with it. That was really jaw dropping game back in 1983. They were light years ahead of the conversions we had in our home video systems (I had Vectrex, A2600 and C64). Those games were so "larger than life", even "mythical" when you saw them in the arcades a kid. It was "magic" to see Gauntlet and Marble Madness eventually on your computer screen. PinMAME and Visual Pinball was another amazing revolution. Even my school suffered because I was literally playing these games endlessly. ![]() Then came Track & Field, Hyper Sports, Bomb Jack, Mr. Stargate) but they weren't "special" to me like the ones mentioned above because they weren't in my local arcade when I was a kid. Of course I owned the commercial Williams pack (that had Robotron, Defender, Stargate and Bubbles). I thought when they disappeared from the arcades they were gone forever. Remember, they were only 10+ years old games back then. It's impossible to describe the feeling when I first had a chance to play Space Duel, Gravitar, Tempest and Xevious again. I don't remember what 486 machine me and brother had back in those days but they only ran them at 80% speed or so. I immediately went to buy a new one just to play EMU. Even Jeff Minter was there, being a legendary Tempest fan that he is. We had a discussion forum on Usenet for these classic emulators. Then there was a Xevious standalone emulator. I drove to my parent's house immediately (he was still living at home).īack in those days MAME did not emulate vector games. I went literally BERZERK (no pun intended). I was like: "You mean someone has recreated those games?" My little brother (who was about 15 back then) called me and told me that "Hey, there is an emulator that allows you to play Gravitar and Space Duel". I remember when I got MAME and Neil Bradley's EMU.
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