r/MAME↗
Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
MAME is a multi-purpose emulation framework it's purpose is to preserve decades of software history. Over time, MAME (originally stood for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) absorbed the sister-project MESS (Multi Emulator Super System), so MAME now documents a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles and calculators, in addition to the arcade video games that were its initial focus. This is the (unofficial) subreddit.
64k subscribers53 posts / mo in Sep 202647 authors / mosince 2009
r/MAME has 64k members (+11% over the last 12 months). It gets about 53 posts a month from 47 people. Top topics: Arcade Emulation, ArcadeCabinets and ArcadeControls.
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Share of the subreddit's posts
- Arcade Emulation24%
- ArcadeCabinets6.1%
- ArcadeControls4.6%
- ArcadeCabinetBuilds4.0%
- Arcade Games2.2%
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Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months
- Museum of the Game
- LaunchBox
- Richard Bannister
- itch
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