Marble Madness is an arcade video game designed by Mark Cerny and published by Atari Games in 1984. It is a platform game in which the player must guide a marble through six courses, populated with obstacles and enemies, within a time limit. The player controls the marble by using a trackball. Marble Madness is known for using innovative game technologies: it was Atari's first to use the Atari System 1 hardware, the first to be programmed in the C programming language, and one of the first to use true stereo sound.
Concepts for Marble Madness were outlined in an extensive design document. The document contains a number of ideas, like the tilting ramp and see-saw scale above, that were not used in the final product.
A Marble Madness arcade cabinet in Shinjuku, Japan
Mark Evan Cerny is an American video game designer, programmer, producer and media proprietor.
Cerny in 2018
Cerny in 2010
Yu Suzuki and Cerny at Game Developers Conference 2011
Cerny in 2014