> > why the hell not... > > I was in the computer room at uni back in 1997 I think and saw someone playing Ghosts > 'n Goblins, and he told me he was using this thing called MAME to play a dump of the > ROM.
Story checks out. The first version of MAME to be released with Ghosts 'n Goblins support was 0.22, albeit with no music support, and came out in May 1997.