Using MAME and a few debugging tools, they were able to read the memory of a machine playing Robotron to extend the game into the physical world. When the player dies, lights go off, alarms sound ...

For those not familiar with it, MAME stands for “Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator” and is generally used to run older arcade games on a computer. Encoders are available for this purpose ...

This arcade game was released in the mid-1990s by Taito ... this isn't running on an actual cabinet but is emulated using MAME. Dr. Tom Tilley programmed a script from scratch that can read ...