>Arcade games are quite an intensive experience, and emulations really can't
>live up to that experience. Besides, that would involve some rather expensive
>PC equipment anyway, not to mention the sensation of playing a mock-up every
>time.
MAME and other such emulations are great for those without
the resources to actually posess the actual arcade cabinets. I for
one would love to pick up an original Zaxxon machine but have nowhere
to store such a beast. On a big screen monitor though, MAME comes
pretty darned close, and since it's running the actual ROM code from
the arcade machine, all the programming quirks are there even if some
of the hardware quirks aren't.
Jeff
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Received on Thu Jul 12 2001 - 21:02:32 BST