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Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: Vigo on April 24, 2013, 11:50:44 am ---Confession time here: On my first introduction to MAME, I thought it was pure wank. The stupidest idea for an emulator ever. I was thinking how lame it was to have an emulator to play pacman and a few other vintage games, by then there were plenty of great ports of most arcade games that I could find on Awesome Angelfire websites.. I had no clue the scope of it, and thought it could play a few games. I just ignored Mame for quite a while while exploring other emulators. It was not until I found out you could play Congo Bongo on it that I decided to see how much it could play. Suddenly it all clicked.

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That's what I was getting at with my little joke... "something about a pacman emulator"  ;)

Honestly mame had a serious case of bad representation in the old days.  It played tons of games almost immediately after the initial release, but all anybody ever talked about was pacman and galaxian.  Don't get me wrong, I like those games, but when a emulator supports just about everything maybe you should emphasize more than two of the oldest video games ever. 

Now people "get" mame a lot easier because it's pretty much the only arcade emulator in town. 

ChadTower:
MAME wasn't originally created to be passed around to a thousand people and used heavily.  Yeah, that was the unavoidable consequence of its creation, but I still believe the stated purpose was an honest one.  To ensure that these games could be run in the future and not lost into time.  It was not originally so that every jerk on the net could build a cab with 15000 arcade games on it.

BadMouth:
I wasn't aware emulators existed until I discovered BYOAC while searching for info on Megatouch machines.

Saw all these projects and what was possible, downloaded UncleT's Mala setup guide and installed everything listed in it.  :blowup:
So my first experience was my join date here.

I still haven't played most of the console emulators more than a few minutes each, handhelds haven't even been touched beyond setting them up.

geomartin:
I purchased a brand spankin' new 486 with Windows 3.1 from HP back in the nineties.  While I was in the store I grabbed a copy of Microsoft Arcade, which had a few games like Asteroids, Missile Command, Battle Zone, Centipede, and maybe a couple more.  That got me looking all over the net on my 28k modem for more arcade games.  I eventually found mame, which was at version .036 at the time.  Been hooked ever since.  I still can't believe that 486 cost like $2,300.  I wouldn't dream of spending that for a home pc these days!

Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: Vigo on April 24, 2013, 11:50:44 am --- It was not until I found out you could play Congo Bongo on it that I decided to see how much it could play. Suddenly it all clicked.

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That's funny.


My experience was I think basic, though not quite direct: I got the idea to play old arcade games through seeing some JacksTV-like dealies at the store, but the one I brought home was not an arcade version. I went online, not having any idea what to look under except 'arcade games', and eventually found MAME. After getting my feet wet, I looked for Atari, and particularly Odyssey2 and Vectrex, both of which I tried in dedicated emus as well as MESS, but haven't been back to them at all in a few years. I'm mostly an arcade game player. Sometimes I remember pinball and fire up VP.



--- Quote from: geomartin on April 24, 2013, 02:58:08 pm ---I purchased a brand spankin' new 486 with Windows 3.1 from HP back in the nineties.  While I was in the store I grabbed a copy of Microsoft Arcade, which had a few games like Asteroids, Missile Command, Battle Zone, Centipede, and maybe a couple more.  That got me looking all over the net on my 28k modem for more arcade games.  I eventually found mame, which was at version .036 at the time.  Been hooked ever since.  I still can't believe that 486 cost like $2,300.  I wouldn't dream of spending that for a home pc these days!

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No doubt. My 1.8ghz P4 in '02 (with monitor and sub addition) cost about $1200 shipped. Now I wouldn't spend more than $500 on a system.


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