mbd39 | 2,036 Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Marble Madness It's tied with Tetris for my favorite game on the NES. I never get tired of it. And I don't want my high score that I posted over on NintendoAge to be lost. I dunno, maybe it wouldn't be lost, but here it is again anyway. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guillavoie | 1,213 Events Team · Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 One of my fav on the NES too! Such a killer score Michael, definitely something that any Marble Madness high rollers should shoot for. One day I'll put myself at it again 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,036 Posted October 23, 2019 Author Share Posted October 23, 2019 5 minutes ago, guillavoie said: One of my fav on the NES too! Such a killer score Michael, definitely something that any Marble Madness high rollers should shoot for. One day I'll put myself at it again Thanks. I also spent a few days trying to speedrun it. I got 19th out of 87 on the leaderboard with a time of 2:55. At least it's top 20. Speedrunning is so much more demanding than playing for score. I can't do silly fast enough. https://www.speedrun.com/marblemadness#Any Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m308gunner | 352 Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 I should give it another spin. It has been tinged with bad feeling ever since I played it back in the olden days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the tall guy | 63 Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 One of my favorites as well. Pretty certain I'm retired from playing for score though, I can't hang anymore. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richardhead | 2,874 Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Fun game, but I’m terrible at it. Used to play the hell out of the arcade cabinet growing up. So many pinched fingers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guillavoie | 1,213 Events Team · Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Played a random game yesterday and got a 3 wands run, lol. I was a bit sloppy though, so it wasn't worth it for super high scores, but man, nailing the last stage would have got me near 178kish probably (didn't nailed anything that night anyway). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,142 Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 I need to give this game a go, I have heard many people say it is a great game. Maybe today since I am working from home! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futureman | 18 Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 (edited) Such a good game, I've def never been good at it. I did get to see Mark Cerny do a classic game postmortem live at GDC some years back. Was amazing to listen to the process of a game like that back then. If anyone is interested you can view it the talk here: Also, thats a big-ass video embed Edited October 24, 2019 by Futureman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zi | 144 Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 I really really want to be good at this game, but the timing always feels off. I want to be able to make tight turns but I feel like I'm steering an 18 wheeler on a highway full of bananas and ballbearings. Any tips for a noob on marble control? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,036 Posted October 24, 2019 Author Share Posted October 24, 2019 23 minutes ago, zi said: I really really want to be good at this game, but the timing always feels off. I want to be able to make tight turns but I feel like I'm steering an 18 wheeler on a highway full of bananas and ballbearings. Any tips for a noob on marble control? The control is actually very tight but it takes practice to get the timing down. Eventually you develop the muscle memory for what you have to do. At least it's a very short game. The world record holder yelsraek made a beginner tutorial that might be helpful. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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