can someone help me install mess or mame?

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OK Mark, hopefully this will work better for you. I went to packages.debian.org 
and selected testing, selected all packages, around 1923 screens. I searched 
with lynx for messer, not found, but mame had several items, try
https://packages.debian.org/testing/mame
I would suppose you will manually download a package from there, then run "dpkg 
-i" to install. Good luck
Chime