MAME is a product developed by MAME team. MAME strives for emulating the games faithfully. Being able to play the games is just a nice side-effect, which doesn't happen all the time. This is achieved by documenting the hardware and how it functions, thanks to the talent of programmers from the MAME team and from other contributors. As gaming technology continues to rush forward, MAME prevents these important 'vintage' games from being lost and forgotten. MAME's purpose is to preserve these decades of video-game history. Therefore, these games are NOT simulations, but the actual, original games that appeared in arcades. MAME becomes the 'hardware' for the games, taking the place of their original CPUs and support chips. The ROM images that MAME utilizes are 'dumped' from arcade games' original circuit-board ROM chips.

MAME can currently emulate over 3000 unique (and over 5400 in total) classic arcade video games from the three decades of video games - '70s, '80s and '90s, and even some from the current millennium. When used in conjunction with an arcade game's data files (ROMs), MAME will more or less faithfully reproduce that game on a PC. MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

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