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Sparcade, originally labeled 'Dave's Multi-Game Emulator' was the first arcade game emulator that emulated Pacman, Frogger, and Amidar. Since 1996, arcade emulation has exploded with insane emulators like Replay and MAME that emulate hundreds of games in one program. While some emulators place quantity over quality, Sparcade, Vector Dream, and Retrocade focus soley on enjoyment and the recreation of the arcade feel!

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RECOMMENDED EMULATORS
  1. Callus (v0.42 / MS-DOS,Win9x)
    Callus, the Capcom System-1 Arcade Board emulator, is one of the most popular arcade game emulators due to its speed and impressive support for modern games such as Street Fighter II, Mega Man: The Power Battle, The Punisher, Strider, and 47 other games from the early 90s.
  2. M.A.M.E. (v0.33 / All OS(s))
    What is MAME? MAME is a slow and inefficiently programmed arcade emulator the dominates the arcade emulation scene because of it's incredible support for almost 600 games. MAME's quality pales in comparison to the majority of smaller emulators due to the disregard to quality and stubborn refusal to harness such things as Neil Corlett's Star Screamer 68k core and other well recognized ways to speed up emulation. MAME has every shred of potential, and it wastes it.
  3. Retrocade (v1.10 / MS-DOS)
    The big buzz in the arcade emulation community right now is Retrocade. Retrocade is a team-written arcade emulator that does it's best to recreate the entire arcade game experience, not just emulate games. A deluxe interface, careful consideration for the players on a game-by-game basis, and an amazing well-known creative team are making Retrocade take the emulation scene by storm.

CATEGORIZED ARCADE EMULATORS
Ancient Classics
Amazing Maze, Lunar Rescue, Space Invaders

  1. Retrovaders - MS-DOS
  2. MAME - All OS(s)
  3. Sideway - MS-DOS
  4. Spaders - MS-DOS
  5. ArcEm - AmigaOS
  6. InvEmu - MS-DOS

Capcom System-1
Final Fight, Ghouls N' Ghosts, Magic Sword, the Punisher, Street Fighter II, UN Squadron

  1. Callus - MS-DOS, Win9x
  2. MAME - All OS(s)
  3. Boo! - MS-DOS

Cinematronics
Rip-Off, Solar Quest, Star Castle, War of the Worlds

  1. Cinematronics Emulator - MS-DOS, Win9x
  2. MAME - All OS(s)

Classics
Centipede, Dig Dug, Frogger, Pacman

  1. MAME - All OS(s)
  2. Sparcade - MS-DOS
  3. Replay - Linux, MS-DOS
  4. Replay+ - Linux, MS-DOS
  5. JAS-Multi Game - MS-DOS
  6. PASMulator - MS-DOS, Win9x
  7. HiVE - Win9x
  8. Mage-X - Win9x
  9. SAGE - MS-DOS
  10. Xcade - MS-DOS, Unix
  11. Mapefer3 - MS-DOS
  12. E++ - MS-DOS
  13. SloMo - MacOS, MS-DOS, Win9x
KEM Category
Discs of Tron, Tapper, Time Pilot, Tron

  1. Killer Emulator - MS-DOS
  2. MAME - All OS(s)

Late 80s / Early 90s
1943, Ikari Warriors, Ninja Gaiden, R-Type I & II

  1. Raine - MS-DOS
  2. RAGE - MS-DOS
  3. xDragon - MS-DOS)
  4. Shark Emulator - Win9x
  5. Multi Gauntlet Emulator - MS-DOS
  6. Replay+ - Linux, MS-DOS
  7. JUNO First - Win9x
  8. MAME - All OS(s)
  9. M72 - MS-DOS

SEGA System 8 / 16 Arcade Games
Golden Axe, Outrun, Pitfall II, Shinobi

  1. System 16 - Linux, MS-DOS, Win9x
  2. System 8 - MS-DOS
  3. Zem - MS-DOS
  4. M.A.M.E. - All OS(s)

Vector Games
Asteroids, Missile Command, Tempest

  1. Vector Dream - Win9x
  2. EMU - MS-DOS
  3. Vectorama - MacOS
  4. M.A.M.E. - All OS(s)

William's Classics
Defender, Joust, Robotron 2010, Sinistar

  1. William's Classics - MacOS, MS-DOS, Win9x
  2. M.A.M.E. - MacOS, MS-DOS, Win9x

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