Been an awesome 10 years, folks. Seen great guys and a gal or two come and go, there's still old-timers from MAME I miss and wish they'd come back, scanned a bezel or two for the art project, and cleaned up a handful of them for Mr. Do, dumped some roms including the only-one-known-to-exist Bounty Hunter, stumbled across other undumped boards along the way, made a few hacks for MiSFit, including Sponge Patrol, Nacho Libre, and Crazy Otto before the real ROMs were publicly known to exist. Even went on expeditions and personally talked to some of the old GCC guys trying to track down the real Otto ROMs before they surfaced (coincidentally or not) shortly after posting my investigation results. Contributed a small part to code deciphering and input (the original was all on paper, working off scans of it) to help get the 1971 Galaxy Game (the first ever coin-operated computer game) emulated, pissed some Dev off moaning that it should be included in MAME while I was at it (define "arcade", remember that, you stuck a coin in it after all  ), got to meet a very few of ya in person, and even met some old arcade legends on various adventures. Set a couple world records with Twin Galaxies, and so did Gatinha (but long ago been dethroned by geeks badder and better than us). Caused a whole mess of trouble in the bin over the years, even got banned for a day once... but that was just Mr. Do playing with me  .
Seen guys celebrating marriages, baby births, cool mod PT Cruisers, a few RIP's, relationship meltdowns, high scores, and rivalries both friendly and caustic. Gave lots of people in the Hardware board bad advice on how to build their own CrapMAME, and of course built my own collection of crap that we still enjoy the hell out of to this day, having raised four children on my cabs so far.
Believe it or not, I got into MAME during the darkest years of my life, looking for a healthy escape from a lousy reality 10 years ago, something to occupy my mind, my time, my hands, and my obsessions. Today I couldn't be in a happier place, and it's not like MAME got me there, but it definitely gave me some mental diversion to find fun and solace while real life was rebooting.
And above all else, I've wasted a ton of 5's on MAME, and glad I stumbled across this shitty place full of all kinds of bastards. Miss the old days of titty-pics in the Bin, but getting to see some of your mugs photo-shopped into bad places is just as good.
Been good times. To ten more happy years!
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Hard to believe I'm coming up on my 10 year anniversary with MAME.
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), got to meet a very few of ya in person, and even met some old arcade legends on various adventures. Set a couple world records with Twin Galaxies, and so did Gatinha (but long ago been dethroned by geeks badder and better than us). Caused a whole mess of trouble in the bin over the years, even got banned for a day once... but that was just Mr. Do playing with me 
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