MAME - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator

ility to actually play the games is considered "a nice side effect".Joystiq has listed MAME as an application that every gamer should have. The first public MAME release (0.1) was on February 5, 1997, by Nicola Salmoria. The emulator now supports over seven thousand unique games and ten thousand actual ROM image sets, though not all of the supported games are playable. MESS, an emulator for many video game consoles and computer systems, based on the MAME core, has been integrated into MAME, which is currently also maintained by former MESS project leader Miodrag Milanovic.