Marble Madness
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Marble Madness is a 1984 platform game designed by Mark Cerny and published by Atari Games Inc. for arcades. Set in an isometric perspective, the game tasks the player with guiding a marble through si
Mark Cerny (shown in 2010)
Brad Fuller (shown in 2005)
The Motorola 68010 (pictured) allowed the developers to program in the more user-friendly C programming language but at the expense of the game running at half the speed of other arcade games.
Concepts for Marble Madness were outlined in an extensive design document. The document contains a number of ideas, like the tilting ramp (top right) and see-saw scale (bottom right), that were not used in the final product.
Ballance (video game)
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Ballance is a 3D puzzle video game for Microsoft Windows. It was developed by German studio Cyparade, published by Atari Europe, and first released in Europe on 2 April 2004. The gameplay is similar t
Marble Madness
…These prototypes have since become collector items. In 2022, a prototype of the joystick-controlled version of Marble Madness II was leaked online. Ballance, a marble game for Windows, released in 2004 Hamsterball, a game that is similar to Marble Madness, released for Windows in 2004…
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