Details
- Released
- December 22, 1998
- Developer
- Nicola Salmoria
- Publisher
- Freeware
- Genre
- Action / Arcade
- Players
- Up to 4; single player, multiplayer
- Type
- Freeware \ Shareware
- Platform
- MS-DOS
- Pack
- eXoDOS
- Manual
- Not included
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About this game
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. Its intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage video games from being lost or forgotten. It does this by emulating the inner workings of the emulated machines; the ability to actually play the video games is considered "a nice side effect".
At first, MAME was developed exclusively for MS-DOS, but it was soon ported to Unix-like systems (X/MAME), Macintosh (MacMAME and later MAME OS X) and Windows (MAME32). This was one of the last MS-DOS compatible builds.
I have chosen to include this as an oddity, as it shows how recent development was for the DOS operating system, and what it was capable of.