The setup at the Church of Robotron included a machine running MAME with a Robotron ROM. When events happened in the game, such as lasers firing or a player death, physical events would be triggered.

However, the HP machines were very graphical in nature, so the author of the HP9845C emulator made a different choice: MAME. You normally think of MAME as a video game emulator. However ...

His latest creation has brought to life a piece of hardware seen in the classic arcade game Puzzle Bobble ... an actual cabinet but is emulated using MAME. Dr. Tom Tilley programmed a script ...