MAME ROMs (Score 3)

the MAME people did a good job preserving all those classics but maybe MAME should be splitted up in two versions: one which tries to emulate ONLY classic games older then 15 years or so (eg. Galaxians, Pac Man, Donkey Kong, defender, Elevator Action...) and the current MAME (this also emulates neo*geo roms and more recent games). I think this would persuade companies to give up rights on ROMS.
I don't feel well about playing games illegaly on MAME but..

• I cannot play them anywhere else!!
  
• I already paid for them big time in the arcades years ago :)
  
• in the 80ties I bought some crappy arcade conversions of the games for the c64/Atari ST on which Sega/Konami etc have also had a percentage via licensing. Anyone remembering the crappy job Ocean did with Outrun/Afterburner? Only a few of them were good (rainbow islands, bubble bobble)
  
• IF you could buy rom sets for a reasonable price I would certainly buy my favorites !!
  

I rest my case ;-)

ps. interested people should really check out http://www.retrogames.com, you'll be amazed how much can be emulated these days :)