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Finally, MAME On Your iPhone

With the MAME project ported to just about every platform under the sun—Dreamcast, Amiga, PocketPCs, digital cameras, cell phones—it was only a matter of time until someone ported the emulator to the iPhone albeit currently unplayable. I'm actually surprised it took this long—the thing has been out for almost two whole months already.

The MAME port's author writes that performance on the SDL is a tad flaky—Pac-Man and Q*bert run well, but Galaga and Gyruss suffer. No word on how accurately Burger Time's performance is but the project lead is looking to port an older version of MAME to the Apple phone.

iPhone MAME [Google Code]


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Clips: Vintage Burger Time Commercials

Here's a great little pair of Intellivison Burger Time commercials from 1983. This first one is a live action affair complete with people dressed in wiener and pickle costumes. The second uses a slightly different voiceover script, and animated sequences replace the live action ones. Thankfully it retains that catchy Burger Time theme remix music from the fist commercial. I don't particularly remember seeing these commercials when they were on, but I do remember plugging ridiculous amounts of quarters into this game as a kid and it's still one of my favorite classic arcade games. Note the great list of systems it's available for at the end. More »