MAME Arcade
In the fall of 2001, I was introduced to an game emulator called MAME (Multiple Machine Arcade Emulator). In a nutshell, MAME is a program that emulates classic arcade games on a PC using the keyboard and mouse. The project started back in in 1997 with Nicola Salmoria, the original programmer writing code in an attempt to preserve a part of gaming history. His software would eventually spawn an entire community dedicated to contributing new material and ideas to support MAME and keep it alive. Currently there are over 3600 unique arcade games emulated through MAME, and the list gets bigger with each new release.