I discovered MAME around 2001 playing around on my parents PC (remember Windows XP!!!) and I've been hooked ever since. I remember back then how unsatisfied I felt with most of the console ports of my favorite arcade games (most of them sucked). The only options at that time was playing the crappy console version, take a long trip to the arcades which were slowly disappearing or owning these expensive, refrigerator sized arcade machines at home which wasn't an option for me.

Discovering MAME was truly mind blowing at that time plus it brought me into the world of emulation! Crazy to see how far we've come!!!