An 'arcade emulator' is a program that
emulates one or more
arcade games on a different
computer, such as a
PC.
Sparcade (written by David Spicer) was perhaps the first PC-based multiple arcade emulator. Sparcade's first version was released sometime in 1995, a whole 2 years before
MAME, which (along with its variants) now dominates arcade emulation.
See the
List of emulators for examples of arcade emulators.
External links
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Sparcade