diff --git a/pkgs/applications/emulators/mame/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/emulators/mame/default.nix
index f66e9144de38..b5b760caa955 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/emulators/mame/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/emulators/mame/default.nix
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
   rapidjson,
   sqlite,
   utf8proc,
+  versionCheckHook,
   which,
   writeScript,
   zlib,
@@ -191,6 +192,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  doInstallCheck = true;
+  nativeInstallCheckInputs = [ versionCheckHook ];
+  versionCheckProgramArg = [ "-h" ];
+
   passthru.updateScript = writeScript "mame-update-script" ''
     #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
     #!nix-shell -i bash -p curl common-updater-scripts jq