Last time I tried MAME, the 3 original Atari games from the 80s played fine. Sega's Star Wars Trilogy Arcade ran but had missing graphics and was too slow to be playable. (I also remember once seeing another Star Wars arcade game, had 3D polygon graphics, don't know if this was ever emulated.)
Talking of MAME, I was thinking we could set up a ot.com "hall of fame". It would work like this: someone who thinks they're a bit handy at the Atari games plays for a while and sets some high scores. They then upload their savestate, highscore.dat or eprom files (whatever it is that MAME uses) for others to download and drop into their game folders. First person to beat the high score uploads a new revised file.
What do you think, would this work?