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 ...

Just as 'Doom clone' became an entire genre in the mid-90s, the world of 80s arcade games was dominated by Pac-Man-likes. Some were brazen knock-offs, but the broader idea of controlling a character ...

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 ...

MAME 0.278 has a completely new sound system, several new emulation additions, and more. The main exciting change here is the new sound emulation system, which the team says is still “rough around the ...

At its heart, a MAME machine is really just a fancy enclosure for a computer that emulates old games. This means that everything will be for nothing if you don’t have a computer to put into your ...