MAME roms download for the Arcade video game emulator
In late 1997 I discovered the MAME emulator and video game roms for arcade games spread over several other fan pages. Nicola Salmoria and The MAME Team had this great idea on December 24th 1996 to create an emulator for the famous arcade games found in arcades in the mid to late 70's to today, making it possible to now re-play vintage and retro games. This page contains photos (screen shots) of all games.
The idea behind MAME is educational purposes and to prevent many historical games from sinking into oblivion once the hardware they run on stops working. Of course to preserve the games, you must also be able to actually play them; you can consider that a nice side effect." (taken from the readme.txt file).
You are not allowed to distribute MAME in any form if you sell, advertise, or publicize illegal CD-ROMs or other media containing ROM images. This restriction applies even if you don't make money, directly or indirectly, from those activities. You are allowed to make ROMs and MAME available for download on the same website, but only if you warn users about the ROMs's copyright status, and make it clear that users must not download ROMs unless they are legally entitled to do so.
You can actually build your own, using woodworking skills or you can buy from companies the various parts that you need, like the marquees that display the name of the game to the sideart that is displayed on the side. These cabinets can contain either an original Jamma harness (for attaching real arcade boards) or a computer so you can run MAME on the cabinet.
Attention, the roms here are outdated by now, and I have no source to update them. So a lot of the might not work with up to date MAME versions. Sorry for that.
| 1975 | ||
| Gun Fight | ![]() | |
| 1976 | ||
| Night Driver | ![]() | |
| Sea Wolf | ![]() | |
| 1977 | ||
| Depthcharge (you might want an external sample file) | ![]() | |
| Space Wars | ![]() | |
| 1978 | ||
| Space Invaders | ![]() | |
| Sea Wolf 2 | ![]() | |
| 1979 | ||
| Asteroids | ![]() | |
| Cosmic Guerilla (you might want an external sample file) | ![]() | |
| Galaxians | ![]() | |
| Lunar Lander | ![]() | |
| Lunar Rescue | ![]() | |
| Tailgunner | ![]() | |
| Video Pinball (might want to get backdrop files) | ![]() | |
| 1980 | ||
| Asteroids De Luxe | ![]() | |
| Astro Fighter (you might want an external sample file) | ![]() | |
| Berzerk (you might want an external sample file) | ![]() | |
| Battle Zone | ![]() | |
| Carnival | ![]() | |
| Centipede | ![]() | |
| Defender | ![]() | |
| Missile Command | ![]() | |
| Moon Cresta | ![]() | |
| New York New York | ![]() | |
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| Space Duel | ![]() | |
| Space Panic | ![]() | |
| Space Zap | ![]() | |
| Starcastle (you might want an external sample file) | ![]() | |
| Stratovox | ![]() | |
| Tempest | ![]() | |
| Wizard Of Wor (you might want an external sample file) | ![]() | |
| 1981 | ||
| Amidar | ![]() | |
| Astro Blaster (you might want an external sample file) | ![]() | |
| Bosconian | ![]() | |
| Bradley Trainer | ![]() | |
| Crazy Kong | ![]() | |
| Frenzy | ![]() | |
| Frogger | ![]() | |
| Galaga (you might want an external sample file) | ![]() | |
| Gorf (you might want an external sample file) | ![]() | |
| Jump Bug | ![]() | |
| Jungler | ![]() | |
| Lady Bug | ![]() | |
| Make Trax/Crush Roller | ![]() | |
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| Omega Race |
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| Pole Position | ![]() | |
| Phoenix | ![]() | |
| Pleiads | ![]() | |
| Qix | ![]() | |
| Scramble | ![]() | |
| Satan's Hollow | ![]() | |
| Space Fury (you might want an external sample file) | ![]() | |
| Spiders | ![]() | |
| Space Tactics | ![]() | |
| Stargate | ![]() | |
| Star Hawk | ![]() | |
| Tron | ![]() | |
| Vanguard (you might want an external sample file) | ![]() | |
| Venture | ![]() | |
| 1982 | ||
| Burning Rubber | ![]() | |
| Burger Time | ![]() | |
| Bubbles | ![]() | |
| Buck Roger: Planet Of Zoom (you might want an external sample file) | ![]() | |
| Dig Dug Needs namco51 and namco52 and namco53 | ![]() | |
| Gravitar | ![]() | |
| Joust | ![]() | |
| Jungle King | ![]() | |
| Kangaroo | ![]() | |
| Moon Patrol | ![]() | |
| Mr. Do! | ![]() | |
| Nato Defense | ![]() | |
| Pengo | ![]() | |
| Pooyan | ![]() | |
| Q*Bert | ![]() | |
| Rescue | ![]() | |
| Super Cobra | ![]() | |
| Sinistar | ![]() | |
| Time Pilot | ![]() | |
| Tutankham | ![]() | |
| Xevious (you might want an external sample file) | ![]() | |
| Zaxxon (you might want an external sample file) | ![]() | |
| 1983 | ||
| Crystal Castles | ![]() | |
| Disks of Tron | ![]() | |
| Elevator Action | ![]() | |
| Exerion | ![]() | |
| Gyruss | ![]() | |
| I, Robot | ![]() | |
| Juno First | ![]() | |
| Mappy | ![]() | |
| Major Havoc | ![]() | |
| Robotron 2084 | ![]() | |
| Spy Hunter | ![]() | |
| Star Trek | ![]() | |
| Star Wars | ![]() | |
| Tapper | 1983 | ![]() |
| Track & Field (Hyper Olympic ouside the US) | ![]() | |
| Traverse USA | ![]() | |
| 1984 | ||
| 1942 | ![]() | |
| Bombjack | ![]() | |
| Gaplus You also need namco62.zip to play this | ![]() | |
| Hyper Sports | ![]() | |
| Karate Champ | ![]() | |
| Kung Fu Master | ![]() | |
| Marble Madness You also need atarisy1.zip to play this | ![]() | |
| Paper Boy | ![]() | |
| Star Force | ![]() | |
| 1985 | ||
| Gauntlet | ![]() | |
| Ghosts'n Goblins | ![]() | |
| Green Beret (Rush'n Attack) | | |
| Gunsmoke | ![]() | |
| Hang On Game is broken (no background) | ![]() | |
| Nemesis / Graduis |
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| Terra Cresta |
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| Tiger Heli |
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| 1986 | ||
| 720 Degrees | ![]() | |
| Arkanoid | ![]() | |
| Bubble Bobble | ![]() | |
| Halley's Comet | ![]() | |
| Ikari Warrior | ![]() | |
| Out Run | ![]() | |
| Rampage | ![]() | |
| Rolling Thunder | ![]() | |
| Slap Fight Run as slapbtuk | ![]() | |
| Space Harrier | ![]() | |
| 1987 | ||
| 1943 | ![]() | |
| Afterburner II | ![]() | |
| Black Tiger | ![]() | |
| Galaga 88 | ![]() | |
| R-Type | ![]() | |
What MAME ROMs work with the RetroPie and RetroArch?You can find and download my favorite MAME roms from arcade video games here from the mid 1970s to late 1980s in one place. A few are also from the 1990s, if that is your decade when you enjoyed gaming in the public. You'll need an emulator to play these games (les jeux vidéo in French, Videospiele in German, giocare ai videogiochi in Italian, videojuegos in Spanish or jogos de vídeo in Portuguese. The rom set here also work with the RetroPie - Retro-gaming on the Raspberry Pi, the GPD XD Plus or any other machines with a built-in software. If you run a Linux, such as Debian (MINT, Ubuntu, MX) SuSE, Red Hat (CentOS Stream) or other distributions, as well as different UNIX flavors or Mac OS, there will be MAME packages in your software manager already available. To use these romsets in other operating systems, especially Windows, you need to find, download and install a rom pack from manually. Search Google for something like mame32.zip or mame64.exe, suiting the Intel or AMD CPU of your computer. There even exist apps for Android. Although I cannot find any apps for the iOS (Apple's iPad oder iPhone). Also have a look at Retrogames. When M.A.M.E. is installed, download MAME roms from here and move them into a directory called roms inside your installation directory. Do not unzip the romset! Btw., this is not a MAME rom torrent page. Please look elsewhere. This section contains games starting with the letter A to F, with classic hits like Battle Zone, William's Defender, Atari's Centipede, Burning Rubber, Burger Time, Bomb Jack, Cabal, Crazy Kong and DigDug. And games starting with numbers, like 1942 or 1943. | ||
| Shinobi | ![]() | |
| Twin Cobra | ![]() | |
| Xenophobe | ![]() | |
| 1988 | ||
| Cabal | ![]() | |
| Narc |
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| Rastan Saga |
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| Robocop |
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| Street Fighter |
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| Truxton (Tatsujin) |
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| 1989 | ||
| Blast Off | ![]() | |
| S.T.U.N. Runner | ![]() | |
| 1990 | ||
| 1941 | ![]() | |
| Gals Panic |
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| Raiden | ![]() | |
| Smash TV | ![]() | |
| Snow Bros. | ![]() | |
| 1991 | ||
| Strike Force | ![]() | |
| 1992 | ||
| Bomberman | ![]() | |
| Truxton II (Tatsujin II) |
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| 1993 | ||
| Ridge Racer |
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| Virtua Fighter Needs m1comm |
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| 1997 | ||
| Dodonpachi | ![]() | |

























































































































































