Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the very first MAME release. We’d like to thank each and every one of you who’ve contributed to making MAME what it is today. When we prepared a list of credited contributors for MAME’s tenth anniversary, it came to just over 500 names. The number of credited contributors has more than tripled since then: over 1,600 individuals/groups have been credited with contributions. MAME is a truly inclusive, global team effort. We’d also like to thank the uncredited contributors – if you’ve filed a bug report, distributed binaries, run a community site, or just put in a good word for MAME, we appreciate it. It’s very humbling to realise that there are people on this list who were born after the initial MAME release. We’d also like to take a moment to remember the contributors who have passed on and are no longer with us.

We look forward to seeing this list grow even faster over the next decade: