MAME

Play classic arcade games with an arcade machine emulator that faithfully recreates the originals. MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) lets you experience over 3000 unique arcade titles from the golden age of gaming—the '70s, '80s, '90s, and beyond—right on your Windows PC.

Unlike simulations, MAME runs the actual original games by using ROM data files dumped directly from arcade circuit boards. The emulator becomes the hardware, replacing the original CPUs and support chips to deliver authentic arcade gameplay exactly as it was in the arcade cabinet. This means you're not playing a recreation—you're playing the real thing, preserved in digital form.

Access a library spanning decades of video-game history. From iconic shoot-em-ups and platformers to fighting games and maze classics, MAME supports over 5400 game versions in total, giving you endless hours of retro gaming nostalgia. The emulator's meticulous approach to hardware documentation ensures each game runs as faithfully as possible to the original experience.

MAME's core mission is preservation. As gaming technology advances, these vintage arcade games risk being lost forever. By meticulously emulating the original hardware and documenting how it functions, MAME safeguards decades of gaming culture for future generations. The ability to actually play these classics is a rewarding side effect of this preservation effort—one that keeps arcade history alive and playable on modern systems.