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MAME roms download for the Arcade video game emulator
You'll need an emulator to play these games. Have a look at Mameui.info for a M.A.M.E. arcade emulators (Windows and Mac). If you run Linux there will be MAME packages in your software manager already. And have a look at Retrogames. After you installed the emulator you download the game files from here into a directory called roms inside the installation directory. Do not unzip them!
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).
Legal mentions
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 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.
If you really like playing these games then you might like the authentic feeling that playing on an arcade machine can bring that can't be reproduced on your PC. Standing at the cabinet, using the microswitch joystick and buttons, looking at the arcade monitor. Nothing beats this.
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.
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.
Some games need audio samples. The games will run without samples but then miss certain or all sounds. Samples are kept in another directory than the roms. Keep that in mind because otherwise you might overwrite a rom with its sample.
Below you find my favorite game roms sorted by year for download. This roms are of version 0.165.
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.
Sorted alphabetical
| 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 are these files?Files here are mostly original dumps (split MAME roms to download; create a merged set yourself, or look elsewhere) of hardware chips from those machines found in arcades in the late 70s through the 80s, with most being considered abandonware. My personal collection on this web page focuses on the golden era from around 1978 to 1989. The newest game here is from 1997 with only a few more files from the 90s. If the 70s or 80s were your decade when you discovered electronic gaming in your town you should enjoy going through my suggestions. You might rediscover long forgotten memories. | ||
| 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 |  | |
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