Marble Madness

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

The only reason I knew is because I wrote a review of the game a few years back and I remember being surprised that the game just ends. In fact, I think you can play through the entire game, start to finish, in less than 10 minutes. That fact just astounded me. I remember thinking of arcade games as these unbeatable machines. No matter how many quarters I pumped in, I could never quite win. And then there's Marble Madness, a game you can beat in ten minutes.

Is the LINK to your review still on the net? If it is, let's have it.

[bruce]

I didn't want to totally get into it the second night.

Then I got kidnapped by my girlfriend and taken to Taos, New Mexico.

Where you totally got into it the second night.

Thanks. I'll be here all week.

Bruce

[Flack]

Where you totally got into it the second night.

^ :)

Is the LINK to your review still on the net? If it is, let's have it.

I think the review was for the Digital Press printed e-zine. I'll check my archives and see if I still have a copy of it.

There is an on-line playable version of the game that runs in a web browser available at http://nintendo8.com/game/605/marble_madness

Thanks for the link, Commander! It's the Nintendo NES and not the arcade version, but it's still fun to play! From what I can find, it looks like the NES version has the same levels as the arcade.

EDIT: How far we've come that we can now play NES games in our browser. Not to get old-fuddy-duddy on you all, but I remember being amazed that I could play NES games on a PC at all at about 4 frames per second.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I sold Marble Madness to a collector from New Mexico today. Here are my MM thoughts:

- Marvelous game for when people came over.

- Even at "easy", I could not make it past the fifth level. In fact, I only got to the fifth level three times. In two and a half years of owning it.

- I played it a lot less over the years. Definitely a game that had the annoying arcade game thing going on where the first few levels became filler.

- I really liked having it around, but the time to sell it had approached. Beautiful sound, like Flack said. Beautiful graphics. But in the realm of games I've sold and would one day want back, I think it would still fall beneath Qix, which was a horrible game to maintain.

I'll miss you, Marble Madness.

[Flack]

At least it was quick. Each level takes, what, roughly a minute? At least it's not a marathon like some of the other games we own/have owned that take half an hour to get near high score territory. Skill's one thing, endurance is another.