MAME, the multiple arcade machine emulator, is 25 years old

Rob Beschizza 5:01 am Tue Feb 8, 2022

A Japanese arcade. Photo: Videogame Visionary (CC BY 2.0)

MAME celebrated its 25th birthday last weekend. Originally authored by Nicola Salmora, the arcade-emulating software became a sprawling project with hundreds of contributors which immortalized the work of a fading industry then triggered a cultural revolution around nostalgia for it.

Happy 25th anniversary, MAME! On December 24, 1996, developer Nicola Salmoria began working on single arcade hardware emulators such as MultiPac. Nicola merged his emulators together under a single unified framework and on February 5th 1997, he released MAME 0.1. #mame #emulation
— The MAME Team (@mamedev_org) February 5, 2022

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