We would have been worshipped

[More Cowbell]

Is it just me or does anyone else ever think about how amazed your friends would have been if you had a MAME machine back in the day (by "day" I mean like 1983)? I mean, if you could transport your cabinet back to 1983 and give it to your Izod wearing, collar turned up, Vans wearing, Scorpions listening, Trapper Keeper toting, velcro wallet wielding, arcade loving self, you would immediately be the most popular kid in school. Not only that, but you could make tons of money from your friends and enemies alike who would fill their pants with delight to see all of those games on one sweet cabinet. I specifically remember thinking to myself back in the day that I would easily give $10,000 if I had it for a Dragon's Lair machine. I guess we're just 20 years too late.

[eccs19]

Ya, I LOVED the Scorpions! (Still do)   

[Samstag]

If MAME existed in 1983 it would only have been capable of emulating a digital calculator on your TI 99/4a or Vic 20.

In 1986 I bought my first real arcade machine for under $50 (Gorf caberet).

[Bones]

TI's rock.

[TMS]

If you had a 20GB PC hard drive in 83 you would be a billionaire

[More Cowbell]

Mame in 1983 would probably have looked something like...
10 print "Mame"
20 goto 10
run

[BobbyG66]

Mame in 1983 would probably have looked something like...
10 print "Mame"
20 goto 10
run

OMG - weird Flashback moment...

I remember when that was cool!
"Hey look at this program I wrote!"
"I can print a banner with my name on it"
"Look close, the B is made up of B's and the O is made from O's"

At least I wasn't in the A/V club pushing the cart around.

BobbyG66

[mahuti]

I wrote a database for my tapes and records like that for a project. I think it was about 1000 lines. Took a while to process some of the functions.

[TMS]

wow you guys are old I was 4 years old in 83, but I could program my speak n spell

[AC.]

PR#6

[missioncontrol]

Mame in 1983 would probably have looked something like...
10 print "Mame"
20 goto 10
run

he good one 

[emerica]

Mame in 1983 would probably have looked something like...
10 print "Mame"
20 goto 10
run

100 lines just to make the balloon go from the top left corner to the bottom right corner. The commodore 64 was fun.

[erictrumpet]

I have wondered the same thing but not about what it would have been like to have a MAME cab back in the day, but instead what it would be like to be back in those days with the gameplay skills I have thanks to MAME! With endless credits, I am now wayyyyy better than I ever dreamed of being back then. I am still no pro but I could easily smoke my old local badasses in Defender and Galaga with my current technique in those games (and others).

Eric.

[missioncontrol]

wow. I'm way worst now than I used to be back in the day

[SOAPboy]

If MAME existed in 1983 it would only have been capable of emulating a digital calculator on your TI 99/4a or Vic 20.

In 1986 I bought my first real arcade machine for under $50 (Gorf caberet).

You missed the point :-|

[cw]

Pr#6      hehe   back to the apple 2 days..

[Samstag]

If MAME existed in 1983 it would only have been capable of emulating a digital calculator on your TI 99/4a or Vic 20.

In 1986 I bought my first real arcade machine for under $50 (Gorf caberet).

You missed the point :-|

The original point wasn't worth catching, so I threw out my own.

[Extreme8]

Pr#6 - I guess there are some other guys around here as old as me!

Oh, and back on topic, I don't know whether we'd be worshipped or burned as witches.

[Havok]

Foley would try and trademark it anyways...