Togther Retro: Marble Madness

Post by **racketboy** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:50 pm

Take your pick of which version you want to play of this wonderful arcade classic
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/arcade/2 ... dness.html
Please use this thread for all general discussion of the game.

Post by **RyaNtheSlayA** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:00 pm

Just a quik question, I have played this before but i dont have it and im wondering if anybody knows which version is easiest to find and emulate.

thanks,

RJ

Post by **fastbilly1** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:49 pm

Hey sorry Racket and Marurun, I never did get a chance to finish that one. Family having babies does that...Well that and having damn near everything blow up at work.

To answer your question Ryan, MameUI does it spot on. Install it, throw the rom in the rom folder, audit roms, set your controls, and your good. If you want to enable a trackball it is right there as an option.

Post by **Bastion** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:02 pm

I see there is a Genesis version. Can we play that? Here is what a website says about it:

"This game(Sega Genesis version) is the remake from the NES game Marble Madness. The interface was pretty much the same, although the graphics and music are much better in that there is more detail on the marble and the course, not to mention that the music is more grooving than the 8-bit sound from the NES game. This game is a fun way to spend hours just rolling around the puzzle course trying to get your marbles in the hole."

Post by **racketboy** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:05 pm

Bastion wrote:I see there is a Genesis version. Can we play that? Here is what a website says about it:

"This game(Sega Genesis version) is the remake from the NES game Marble Madness. The interface was pretty much the same, although the graphics and music are much better in that there is more detail on the marble and the course, not to mention that the music is more grooving than the 8-bit sound from the NES game. This game is a fun way to spend hours just rolling around the puzzle course trying to get your marbles in the hole."

You can play whatever version you want. We just try to recommend certain ones...

Post by **HOW** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:00 am

As I mentioned in another thread - Staying arcade faithful (minus trackball

) - and running it on MAMEUI.125 (seems to work v.nicely with an analogue pad).

Just a bit of MM trivia (and I tried to confirm this on Wikipedia with no luck). I am SURE I heard somewhere that Mark Cerny designed the game as part of a competition run for the public by Atari (he wasn't an employee!) - and his prize was to have the game made!!!
Maybe apocryphal - but a good story all the same

Post by **BigTinz** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:58 am

1. Arcade
2. NES
3. GENNY

IMO

Post by **4ppleseed** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:05 am

HOW wrote: Just a bit of MM trivia (and I tried to confirm this on Wikipedia with no luck). I am SURE I heard somewhere that Mark Cerny designed the game as part of a competition run for the public by Atari (he wasn't an employee!) - and his prize was to have the game made!!! Maybe apocryphal - but a good story all the same

I think there are various versions of this story. I'm sure the real version is:

Mark Cerny was really good at playing games and pinball, won a few competitions so Atari hired him as a play tester but Cerny saw this as an opportunity to actually make games and started to learn to program. He picked it up incredibly quick and took the design lead on Marble Madness aged 18.

Cerny then went on to work on Sonic 2, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Ratchet and Clank amongst others – mainly as a design consultant – but that’s still a pretty impressive list of games.

Post by **4ppleseed** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:47 pm

Soz for the double post but ...

TAADDDAAA!!! This is the Marble Madness editor for the ZX Spectrum release.

Plus...

The (never gonna happen) Extra Credit: Marble Madness II - Marble Man for arcade...

Post by **4ppleseed** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:07 pm

Lolz triple posts. (Marble Madness was in my selection for the 'Nominate Games For Together Retro' thread here: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 6428#46428 so I'm taking it very seriously that its been picked ... haha).

Righty then...

Roger's Classic Arcade Tips & Tricks for Marble Madness...
Wanna find out how to get infinite time? Did you know on the arcade machine you can use both tracker balls at the same time in 1 player mode? How about the rumoured 'secret level'?
http://rcatt.classicgaming.gamespy.com/
Click 'Game Tips' then 'L to O' and finally 'Marble Madness'

THE Mark Cerny Marble Madness interview:
http://www.bodenstandig.de/marble/atariga.htm

Is the GBA port of Marble Madness, the best port ever? Haha I guess not... (NSFW as there's quite a bit of swearing

)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWOG17Bv ... re=related

Complete maps of all the levels: (*Warning Spoilers* (obviously) but be sure to check out the MC Escher style illusion at the end of level five...)
http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/marble/marble-all.png

Daft Punk style remix of Marble Madness level 2 music (Original by Hal Canon & Brad Fuller btw fact fans).
http://www.ocremix.org/remix/OCR01102/

And finally, looking to ACTUALLY BUY THE MARBLE MADNESS ARCADE MACHINE??? That's a cool $2000 please...
http://www.quarterarcade.com/Game.aspx/1123
Worth every penny

[edit: added a few more links]

Togther Retro: Marble Madness

Togther Retro: Marble Madness

Can we play the Genesis Version?

Re: Can we play the Genesis Version?