MAME

is one of the most complete arcade emulator available: it allows to play thousands of titles that would otherwise be lost forever.
In this website it plays a key role and will be updated as new versions come out.

Some links for further information:

• download latest release
• download previous releases
• Wikipedia
• source code

Statistics

There are 854 different releases of emulators, all related to Mame.
Informations are updated to version 0.238 released on november 24 2021.
The emulated machines are 43,999 and including previously removed come to 49,005.

The total games processed to date is about 7.8 millions.
From these numbers are excluding unofficial versions of other Mame.

Software lists

A lot of Mame machines supports more programs/games and they are grouped into software lists, i.e. console software, computer games, embedded systems and a lot more.
There are 670 software lists with a total of 130,303 emulated programs and including those removed until version 933 come to 731 and 155,969 programs.

The total programs processed to date is about 11.6 millions.

NOTE: Before release 0.162, the program with support for software lists was named MESS.