MAME32 Download: MAME ROM Games Emulator  

In 1996, Nicola Salmoria began working on his single hardware emulators. He named his accomplishment Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, or MAME.

The first official release was MAME 0.1, in 1997. The current version recognizes over six thousand ROM sets. New MAME releases occur frequently about every four to six months.
 

Even though MAME allows individuals to play those old classic video arcade games and some newer ones, the principal function of the MAME project is to record the hardware and software of the original arcade games. Already there are many dead arcade boards that have been brought back to life thanks to MAME. The ability to play these games is just a nice by-product. The colossal MAME achievement would not be likely without the aptitude of the programmers coming together to form the MAME team. Currently, there are over 100 official members on the team, but there is a large following of outside contributors as well.