MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. When used in conjunction with an arcade game¡äs data files (ROMs), MAME will more or less faithfully reproduce that game on a PC. MAME can currently emulate over 2600 unique (and over 6000 in total) classic arcade video games from the three decades of video games - ¡ä70s, ¡ä80s and ¡ä90s, and some from the current millennium. MAME¡äs purpose is to preserve these decades of video-game history. As gaming technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents these important "vintage" games from being lost and forgotten.