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10 unusual facts about Mame


Bio F.R.E.A.K.S.

Prototypes of the game were tested at arcades, but the final arcade release was canceled (although a rom image of the prototype was eventually dumped and works in MAME) and the game was later released for the PlayStation, Nintendo 64 and PC.

Kaillera

MAME (various arcade systems)1

Lawrence H. Brown

In his spare time he tinkers with old pinball machines, his custom-designed MAME cabinet, and restores/repairs computers for the volunteer organization LifeByte.

MAME

The first public MAME release (0.1) was on February 5, 1997, by Nicola Salmoria.

A game usually consists of multiple ROM and PAL images; these are collectively stored inside a single ZIP file, constituting a ROM set.

MegaDriver

In addition, the band has released four full soundtracks for the Metal MAME project, which reprograms MAME images using heavy metal remixes of the games' original music.

Star Wars Trilogy Arcade

Star Wars Trilogy Arcade is also somewhat playable in MAME.

The Adventures of Robby Roto!

It is notable for being one of the few games made available for download on the official website of MAME, a video game emulator.

Tim Lindquist

Besides his involvement in publishing, Tim has been a member of the MAME development team since 1997.

Visual Pinball

VPinMAME adds to Visual Pinball's system requirements and, like other MAMEs, uses image files of the actual ROMs from the physical pinball machines, executing them as simulations of the embedded CPUs, sound chips, and displays from the physical machines.


Aida Pierce

She began her career on stage, appearing in the Mexican productions of Godspell, Peter Pan, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Mame, among other plays.

Albert Whitlock

Universal loaned out Whitlock and his team to other studios for visual effects work on films including Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, the David Lynch version of Dune, Mame, The Learning Tree and Bound for Glory.

Alfred-Henri-Amand Mame

By analogy with the great ironworks of Le Creusot, the Mame firm has been called the literary "Creusot".

Carol Lawrence

Among her other musical theatre parts are the title role in Mame, Guenevere in Camelot (opposite husband Robert Goulet), Do I Hear a Waltz at the Pasadena Playhouse (2001) and Follies at the Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles in 2002.

Chu Chin Chow

The character Mame Dennis mentions in the novel Auntie Mame that she adored her time as a chorus girl in Chu Chin Chow with her bosom buddy Vera Charles and tries to recreate the experience.

Delphi Lawrence

In 1990 she appeared as Vera Charles in the national tour of Mame starring Juliet Prowse.

Gary Warren

He also played Owl Face in the TV series Catweazle (1971) and Taplow (the troublemaking pupil) in Whacko, and appeared in the sitcom Alexander the Greatest (1971) and played Mame's son in the West End musical Mame starring Ginger Rogers.

Gene Saks

Among Saks' film directing credits are Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Cactus Flower (which won Goldie Hawn the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress), The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Mame, So I Married an Axe Murderer (uncredited) and the 1995 television production of Bye Bye Birdie.

George Coe

Coe's Broadway theater career began in 1964 and included turns as M. Lindsey Woolsey opposite Angela Lansbury in the original cast of Jerry Herman's Mame and as Owen O'Malley in On The Twentieth Century alongside John Cullum, Imogene Coca, Kevin Kline and Madeline Kahn, as well as creating the role of David in the original Broadway cast of George Furth and Stephen Sondheim's Company.

Jerry's Girls

On February 28, 1984, the expanded Jerry's Girls premiered at the Royal Poinciana Playhouse in Palm Beach, Florida, with Carol Channing, Andrea McArdle, and Leslie Uggams, backed by an all-female chorus, recreating scenes and songs from Herman's hits, including Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and Mack and Mabel.

Mame Younousse Dieng

Mame Younousse Dieng is a Senegalese writer born in Tivaouane who lives in Dakar.

Mbacké

Mbacké, also known as Mbacké-Baol, was founded in the sparsely populated wilderness of Eastern Baol in 1796 by Mame Maram Muhammad al-Khayri (d. 1802), great-grandfather of Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba Mbacké.

Put the Blame on Mame

Mame is also credited with causing the fictional Shooting of Dan McGrew during the Yukon Gold Rush - an event derived from a short narrative poem published in 1907 by Robert W. Service.

Radio Golf

Directed by Kenny Leon, the cast featured Anthony Chisholm (Elder Joseph Barlow), John Earl Jelks (Sterling Johnson), Harry Lennix (Harmond Wilks), Tonya Pinkins (Mame Wilks), and James A. Williams (Roosevelt Hicks).

Roger Broders

During the 1940s he illustrated four of the works of the German author Karl May which were published by Éditions Mame at Tours in France in French language.

Rohan Browne

He has also been a part of productions of Grease, Dirty Dancing, Anything Goes, Kiss Me, Kate, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Follies, Mame and the original Boy From Oz.

Rosalind Russell

Patrick Dennis dedicated his second Auntie Mame book Around the World with Auntie Mame to "the one and only Rosalind Russell" in 1958.

Sheila Keith

Her stage career took her from repertory theatre at the Bristol Old Vic and Pitlochry, to West End appearances including Noël Coward's Present Laughter, Mame with Ginger Rogers, An Italian Straw Hat, Anyone For Denis?, and Deathtrap.

Tim Schoch

He has also appeared in musical comedies such as Little Mary Sunshine, Mame, Once Upon a Mattress, Plaza Suite, 1776, Godspell, Man of La Mancha, Dames at Sea, The Fantasticks, and others.