Anybody remember Marble Madness ('84 arcade game)

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Marble Madness. Bizarre arcade game from the '80s. I’ve been looking for a remake for a while now.

Finally… this way lies Marble Madness (renamed Rolling Madness). For some reason, that person has taken it upon themself to recreate the full game with original music and give the thing away for free. The mind boggles.

I love it. The graphics are enhanced with options to change the camera angle in mid-play and there is a 3-D mode that makes it feel like you’re right there in marble land.

It seems to be a tad buggy in spots and I had to fight with it to get it to display right on my laptop. Also it doesn’t seem to work well if you have anything else running in the background (I have a feeling it’s a huge resource hog). Also it takes some getting used to using a mouse instead of a track ball, but I’m a quick study :cool:

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Huzzah!

I love love love this game.

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Cool. Real 3D instead of just zoom scaling. Nice.

'Course, for the real arcade fix there’s always MAME.

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I loved that game! I had it on the Amiga. :slight_smile:

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Me too. I loved trying to get to places you weren’t supposed to. Use the pistons to launch you onto the islands and such. GOod times.

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Anyone remember SpinDizzy? In the absence of a real Marble Madness game on the 8-bit Atari computer I had at the time (and it being absent from my local arcades), this became my favourite substitute. It was less a race and more a kind of marble-based platform style game but it was hella fun.

When I upgraded to the Atari ST, the original wasn’t available, but its spiritual sequel, SpinDizzy Worlds was, and that was also quite fun.

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YEP! I played this game on the NES! I also played it more recently on a NES emulator for the Sega Dreamcast. Good times!

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I absolutely loved this game! I was never lucky enough to have it, but my big cousin did and I got to play it every weekend when I went to his house!

I also remember spindizzy, good times…

Huzzah for Patty O’Furniture

Brendon

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I was 3 when it came out in '84, but oh, I played this game to death. Other great games were Snake, Rattle, and Roll and Cobra Triangle.

Those games ate up a LOT of my time.

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What are these “trackballs” and “mouse” crutches that you speak of?

Most of the hours I spent playing this game were via keyboard commands on an Apple. It wasn’t until many years later when I was in high school and I saw people playing it on Nintendo at a party that I realized just how handicapped my formative years with the game had been.

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I may be lucky but I can’t play it, I get the following error when I try to play it
Configuration file “misc/config.txt” is not accessible. Using default configuration

***ERROR: This program requires OpenGL version 1.21 or better. You have version 1.2. Please update the video card drivers.

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I thought that game was really interesting when it came to the arcades.

But I totally sucked at it so I hate it.

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Hamsterball is influenced by Marble Madness, IMO. You race against a weasal to complete the various courses first. It’s pretty fun. :slight_smile: