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MAME (formerly an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator designed to recreate the hardware of arcade games, video game consoles, old computers and other systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. [1]
An arcade cabinet, also known as an arcade machine or a coin-op cabinet or coin-op machine, is the housing within which an arcade game's electronic hardware resides. Most cabinets designed since the mid-1980s conform to the Japanese Amusement Machine Manufacturers Association (JAMMA) wiring standard. [ 1 ]
Exact copies of arcade video games can be run through emulators such as MAME on modern devices. An emulator is an application that translates foreign software onto a modern system, in real-time. An emulator is an application that translates foreign software onto a modern system, in real-time.
Mouse Trap is a maze video game developed by Exidy and released in arcades in 1981. It is similar to Pac-Man, with the main character replaced by a mouse, the dots with cheese, the ghosts with cats, and the energizers with bones. After collecting a bone, pressing a button turns the mouse into a dog for a brief period of time.
Rapid River [a] is a 1997 arcade game released by Namco. The game is about white water rafting, and players must race against the clock, passing through checkpoints to extend the time they have to complete the level. The game is notable for its unique player controls that aim to replicate oars. [2] [3] [4] It was intended to appeal to dating ...
Leprechaun is an arcade video game manufactured by Enter-Tech in 1982. [1] It was licensed from Tong Electronic. Leprechaun was designed for children, with a low difficulty and a smaller cabinet, released in the Moppet Video line. [2] Game Plan manufactured a version using a standard arcade cabinet as Pot of Gold. [3]
Arcade version screenshot. Money Puzzle Exchanger has the same gameplay as Fujitsu’s earlier PC game Moujiya, but structured as a stacking game similar to the Magical Drop, AstroPop, and Puzzle Bobble series, whereby players race to prevent a perpetually falling array of coins in different values from filling up the screen.
Zaxxon [a] is a scrolling shooter developed and released by Sega as an arcade video game in 1982. [5] The player pilots a ship through heavily defended space fortresses. Japanese electronics company Ikegami Tsushinki was also involved in the game's dev