MAME

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MAME is an open-source arcade emulator that emulates various arcade games from the past. It stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

Why It's Amazing

 * 1) It perserves a lot of old arcade games from the 70's and onward.
 * 2) They are always improving the emulation of the games and are also adding more machines that MAME can emulate.
 * 3) It helped revolutionized retro emulation.
 * 4) Not only can it be found for PC but it is also found on other platforms such as Mac, IOS, Android, and various game consoles.
 * 5) Most of the games it emulates are fun games anyone can enjoy.
 * 6) It also powers a lot of home arcade machines due to it being compatible with different controllers and the fact that it emulates various arcade games.
 * 7) While it mainly emulates arcade games, it also does emulate other systems like consoles, calculators, computers, and plug n play consoles.
 * 8) It's also the reason why some retro games are being more popular and out of obscurity. One example is the game Ninja Baseball Batman which didn't do so well back then but it got popular due to MAME and the creator of Ninja Baseball Batman brought it back via a successful Kickstarter for comics based on the game.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The emulation on some of the machines are not perfect. For example, Martial Masters have fast music that ruined the intro which fortunately was fixed.
 * 2) Because there are different versions of MAME, some arcade roms are incompatible with certain versions because of mame requiring some more or fewer files for each rom as the emulation for said game is worked on.
 * 3) Like other emulators, MAME doesn't come with roms for legal reasons. However, you can find roms online.

Trivia

 * There was a sister project called MESS which stood for Multi Emulation Super System which was for calculators, consoles, computers, and plug n play consoles but it got absorbed by the main project, MAME.