The games were 32 bit but they used 16 bit installers which won't work on 64bit Windows and you have to jump through a few hoops to get them installed and running). It's not much of a problem with just about anything you would run now (including all the emulators), but might be a headache if you were trying to run some fairly old stuff (like for instance the older Star Wars games up to around X-Wing Alliance. Also, you would have problems with much older software that is 8 or 16 bit as 64 bit dropped support for them. As mentioned elsewhere, older hardware might give you a challenge as far as finding 64bit drivers. So anyway, that really is the biggest advantage of 64 bit Windows is being able to address larger amounts of RAM. Heck, even if you have 4GB installed you can't completely utilize it all on 32bit. So if you had 8GB installed for instance, over half of it wouldn't be usable by the OS.
I don't know how much RAM you have or are planning on running on your emu box, but 32 bit Windows can address 3-3.5 GB of RAM maximum. Mame on 32-bit and 64-bit pcs this download is licensed as freeware for the windows (32-bit. A big difference between using 32 and 64 bit versions is available memory.
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