Post by Admin on Sept 27, 2013 20:26:59 GMT -7
Being 42 years old, I grew up playing arcade games. Even won a local ZAXXON tournament when I was younger (still proud of that lol). The younger generation plays stuff like Guitar Hero and X-Box but I like to relive the days of my youth by playing the traditional games on my PC that you could only find in a video arcade. I really miss those old dives...so carefree compared to today, so innocent and fun.
The "emulator" I use is called MAME (actually MAME32). It runs on a Windows PC and is fun as all get out. You can download the base emulator here.
Mame Arcade Emulator
For those of you that aren't aware of how an emulator works, it basically replicates the original video game hardware in your PC's software. because today's PC's are so much more powerful than the old arcade hardware, this is possible to do.
However, to actually play the games of your youth (or for the younger men, the games your father used to play) you will need the ROM's (Read-Only-Memories) of the actual video games you are looking to play. Unfortunately, no one has found a way to 100% legally distribute the ROM's as a lot of the old companies are out of business (and their copyrights went with them) or the market is to small for a modern ROM company to go thru and somehow obtain the copyrights for them.
A judgement call, if I'm not hurting anybody at all and its merely a dead copyright issue, is it OK in your opinion to obtain defunct ROM lists so that you can enjoy them. I'm a libertarian by nature so I say, if its a technicality and no one is suffering for it, go for it. My personal opinion.
The "emulator" I use is called MAME (actually MAME32). It runs on a Windows PC and is fun as all get out. You can download the base emulator here.
Mame Arcade Emulator
For those of you that aren't aware of how an emulator works, it basically replicates the original video game hardware in your PC's software. because today's PC's are so much more powerful than the old arcade hardware, this is possible to do.
However, to actually play the games of your youth (or for the younger men, the games your father used to play) you will need the ROM's (Read-Only-Memories) of the actual video games you are looking to play. Unfortunately, no one has found a way to 100% legally distribute the ROM's as a lot of the old companies are out of business (and their copyrights went with them) or the market is to small for a modern ROM company to go thru and somehow obtain the copyrights for them.
A judgement call, if I'm not hurting anybody at all and its merely a dead copyright issue, is it OK in your opinion to obtain defunct ROM lists so that you can enjoy them. I'm a libertarian by nature so I say, if its a technicality and no one is suffering for it, go for it. My personal opinion.