MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Gambling games

> Would I be in the minority thinking that adding all these gambling games in to MAME
> is not a good idea?
>
> Currently there are many many of these being added to the system but IMHO they do not
> add to the project at all.
> They cause the ROM lists to be hugely inflated and meaning time and effort to filter
> them out of the lists (not helped by the removal of filtering in a certain
> frontend!).
>
> If you are about to say that MAME is an archive of arcade machines (which I think it
> is / should be) then my local arcade had an air hockey game, those penny pushing
> things, stuffed toy grabbers and soda machines - are these going to be emulated too??
>
> Can't these games be shoved in to some kind of parallel project? Multiple Gambling
> Arcade Machine Emulator - MGAME?
>
> Please try to keep this discussion civil - I don't want to start a flame war, just a
> sensible discussion OT.

Casinos generated some of the highest revenues from arcade games and helped to increase demand for more of them. Gambling video games and arcade video games in the early 1980's were developed practically side by side each other. Having grown up around the casino arcades all my life, it is easier for me to credit casinos for helping to grow the arcade industry. When I see an old poker machine emulated in MAME, it reminds me of the times I used to walk through the casinos walking past the video gambling machines to get to the darkened arcade room.