Marble Madness

by Midway

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000659BI
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: April 8, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #69,814 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Play the arcade classic Marble Madness on your Pocket PC handheld. It's an obstacle course like no other, with twists, turns, tubes, gravity wells, marble-smashing hammers, and more. Race the clock through six challenging tracks, including the dizzying reverse-physics Silly Race. Dodge deadly enemies like Marble Munchers, acid puddles, and the bashing Steelie. Easy, medium, and hard difficulty levels and a turbo toggle for twice the speed add to the replay value.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars TOO GOOD!, April 11, 2002

By 

Jake Steed (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Marble Madness (CD-ROM)

ROLL OUT! Yep, thats right, Marble Madness is back in town ladies and gentleman. This game is FANTASTIC! Its got all the great features that the original had. I mean, who wouldn't have fun guiding a solid blue marble thru insanely confusing puzzles. They were right on point when they labeled the game " Marble Madness ". There were a few times when I thought I was going to have to be checked into a asylum. If playing this game was a crime, then I'll plead voluntary insanity.

I strongly urge that all REAL gamers pick this game up. It has such a great replay value to it. I could stay in my room for hours and hours trying to guide my ball thru all the different mazes. Even when my mom pounds on my door to tell me its time for dinner, I still keep playing. I say " Look mom, I'm a 35 year old man, and I can play Marble Madness whenever I want." She usually gets off my back then.

So pick this game up now. Don't wait, because there won't be many left, trust me on that. Submerge yourself in your room and work hard at mastering all the mazes, and then you too can call yourself a Marble Madness Master!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty cool., April 20, 2003

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Dennis Rosebrough (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Marble Madness (CD-ROM)

Yes, this product is pretty cool. From what I've played so far, it seems to be a good port of the addictive coin-op game from so long ago. My one complaint is that the control is more difficult, but to be fair, I really can't think of any better way to do it.

By the way, there are Pocket PC ports of MAME, so if you want the "Poor Man's Marble Madness," or any old arcarde game for that matter, you might want to look into that instead. If you just want to play Marble Madness and don't care what platform you play it on, get the PC version of MAME instead. It's much easier to play, and much cheaper, too (i.e. free). But of course, that won't impress the people at work as much...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Retro Marble action is back again, better than ever!!, April 8, 2002

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Sade Ancri'ng (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Marble Madness (CD-ROM)

This is a solid translation of the original arcade game.

Everything from the characters, physics and music of the game are well intact, for the complete 'Retro' feel of the 80's.
Back when gaming was great and eye-hand coordination was at its best for competition of high scores.

And what better game to display 'consistency' and 'grace' than with Marble Madness.
Controlling a Marble through different tedious mazes of difficulty is not as easy as it sounds,
as most of you know or will find out.

The pen control option is the best anyone as come to the original track-ball control.
All movements of the Marble is controlled through the different swipes of the pen.
Small quick swipes will cause the Marble to 'shoot' in the direction of the swipe.
A long slow curve of the swipe will cause the Marble to follow the movement and not lose speed.

I am very pleased with this conversion of the game,
as many of you will too.

A Must Buy for fans of Old,
or even for ones just looking for a good solid game.