If you are an iOS user, chances are you know how difficult it can be running classic video games on the devices, unless of course you jailbreak the device. If you are not willing to do that to your pricey Apple equipment, it gets even harder. But sometimes, an app available on the Apple App Store that has a feature not widely known can slip past Apple’s fingers. An official app called Gridlee is currently on the list, as it doubles as a MAME emulator, bringing the power of the arcade in the palm of your hands.

The original game of “Gridlee” was an arcade game that was never officially released in arcades, and was developed by a company called Vidla in 1982. The game is being made available via the App Store by a man named David Loureiro. It was originally made available for download on January 25th. The description of the app indicates that it uses “emulation technology”, using MAME 0.139u1. With this information, it was discovered that other arcade ROMs could be entered into the program.

Previously, there was an application available called iMAME, which was available for just about a week back in December of 2011. However it was pulled from the App Store, supposedly because of Apple’s long-standing policy of not permitting applications capable of running emulated software on its devices. Touch Arcade has reported that Gridlee is based off of the powerful MAME4iOS, which provides support for external controllers (including but not limited to the ever popular iCade system), and features advanced visual filters, cheat support. By copying individual game ROMS into a special folder, you will make Gridlee load a list of games that you provide to start once you load the program.