Heads up vintage game players and collectors, today MAME32 becomes MAMEUI.

With this exciting news, the 64bit version with a GUI for 64bit Windows OSes (XP64, Vista64) and 32bit version with a GUI for 32bit Windows OSes (Win98/ME/2000/XP/Vista) of MAME version 120.4 was released.

MameUI (previously Mame32) is the GUI version of the M.ultiple A.rcade M.achine E.mulator, a program which seeks to document the internal hardware and code of all arcade games.

All current versions of MAME are available in my download section. Enjoy.

I’m sorry Pac-Man, but the final dot you have to eat is in another castle.

I’m a little bummed that they didn’t include the “wacka-wacka” sounds when Pac-Man moves around but it’s still geektastic and a worthy gaming parody.

The Atari 2600 has been added to the Strong National Museum of Play’s toy Hall of Fame list, an honor it richly deserves.

It’s actually the first electronic toy to make the list, which includes classics like Mr. Potato Head, marbles, checkers, and Barbie.

Museum curator Patricia Hogan said:

It may look primitive compared to the advanced video game systems available today, but it helped make these possible.

Damn straight, people. Know your roots.

Joining the 2600 on this year’s list of inductees were the kite and Raggedy Andy, though Raggedy Ann actually made it five years ago.

What’s that about? You let in Ann but Andy has to wait? Laaaaame.

Inspired by a love of retro gaming and a fair amount of booze, late one night a clever coder created Pac-Txt, an Infocom-style text adventure version of arcade classic Pac-Man.

Here’s how he explains the genesis of the project:

Well, I had just got back from a party where the concept of a Pac-Man + Zork hybrid came up as a joke. So, being 2am with a little alcohol in my system, I thought it’d be funny to code it up (as far as I could before collapsing).

So, a couple hours later it was looking complete-ish (minus the ghosts’ AIs and graphic assets).

The next morning [read: aftenoon] when I woke up, since I have an inability to realize sunk costs, I decided to throw some crappy AI in for the ghosts, put a few graphics on it (courtesy of FastIcon.com) and voila! A domain name purchase or two later, and here we go.

You just don’t find passion like that every day.

Though it’s good for a chuckle, the game actually isn’t all that fun, since your choices are pretty much limited to “forward,” “backward,” and “eat dot.”

Now, a text adventure version of Frogger, that would be exciting.

Source: Pac-Man, meet Zork via Cnet

Rockstar Games isn’t on the hook for the fact that hackers have removed the censorship filters from the PSP version of Manhunt 2, says Entertainment Software Ratings Board president Patricia Vance. What’s more, she doesn’t believe that the hack would change the game’s rating.

Contrary to some reports… we do not believe these modifications fully restore the product to the version that originally received an AO rating, nor is this a matter of unlocking content.

Well, hey. If restoring the game’s killing sequences to their original unretouched grossness doesn’t raise the game from an M to an AO, Rockstar should totally release a “Director’s Cut” version of the game, don’t you think?

At any rate, Vance says that because Rockstar was totally upfront with the board about the content in the game, they don’t believe that they omitted any required information from their submission.

Source: Ars Technica

Want to be rid of double-A batteries? Red Octane is here to help.

The Guitar Hero makers are offering a USB-rechargeable lithium battery pack that works with the new Guitar Hero III wireless controllers for PS3, PS2, and Xbox 360. Yes: the same device works with all three.

You can grab one for $20.00 USD off their website.

If you haven’t yet purchased Guitar Hero III, they offer bundles of the game, the recharge kit, and a whole mess of other stuff included for $130.00 USD.