MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Has anyone ever beaten every arcade game in MAME?

> Has anyone ever beaten every arcade game in MAME? Except for the mechanical, fruit,
> casino, and mahjong games. Those games/genres don't count. As for bootlegs and
> clones, those can be discounted as well.
>
> I am only interested and curious if anyone has ever beaten every driving, shmup,
> platform, shooter, sports, fighting, maze, puzzle, etc. game that are emulated in
> MAME?
>
> Alot of older games are endless and continually repeat. So how can you beat those
> games? I consider those games beat when the game starts to repeat. For example, if a
> particular game has "Levels: 4 (endless)" then I consider that game beat after you
> complete the 4th level.
>
> I have already beat more than 400 games and I hope to achieve this feat of beating
> every arcade game that MAME emulates.

Careful with how you formulate this question. I've run into some trouble talking about "beating games".

For a lot of old timers, (atari era and stuff), "beating" a game or getting the "ending" meant to reach the absolute last stage available in the game (level 99 or even 255) or maybe even crashing the game. For a lot of those guys, getting the ending sequence (if it even had one) did not meant you "beat" the game.

The correct question should be "has anyone ever gotten the ending story sequence to every arcade game" or something like that.

The answer is no, I doubt someone could unless that's all they did all day and if you are actually attempting that, I'll be very disappointed.

The closest you are going to get are combined efforts such as VGM or MamEnd.