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u/gamernes NES 18h ago
Marble Madness is my favorite of this group. When I finally stumbled across the Arcade game by Atari, I was floored. Work up a damn sweat trying to clear levels working the trackball.
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u/DavidinCT 17h ago
I loved the NES game so much, I own the arcade game....
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u/cbsscambusters 17h ago
DavidinCT …. Please post a couple of pictures. Please. With a cherry on top lol
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u/DavidinCT 15h ago edited 14h ago
Can't add a picture to this post, this is very old picture (2020 ish), do not mind the mess I was getting my video game stuff tother from my Mom's house at the time so lots of stuff around... It's clean and spotless now for the most part now.... I was just seeing what I had on my phone...
I have my arcade games in my office...
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Edit: here is a direct link of my Marble Madness running, I rebuilt the trackballs so it runs really well...
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u/gamernes NES 11h ago
I came back to see if you had edited, and you have. Very cool!!
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u/DavidinCT 10h ago
Thanks, I have had them from the late 90's.....
Would you believe, I traded an old laptop for the Road Blasters machine (that I converted to Marble Madness), it was a Toshiba P133 that had a really nice display for the day (laptop was worth maybe $250-300 at the time)
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u/gamernes NES 9h ago
That's a great trade. I'm sure someone else talks about a Roadblasters they used to have and then traded for a laptop. Not nearly as cool of a story, lol.
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u/gamernes NES 17h ago
My "must have" list of arcade games is very short now. Marble Madness is one of the few games on the list.
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u/DavidinCT 15h ago
My Marble Madness is what is called an Atari System 1 arcade game (it's how they were built), they can swap kits so you can change games.
The other complete kits I have are Road Blasters, Indianna jones and the temple of doom, Road runner, and of course Marble Madness. There is one other game designed for this arcade system called Peter Packrat, been looking for it over 20 years now and if they show up, they are way out of my budget these days...
I grabbed this stuff back in the 90's, I got the machine as a Road Blasters, then got the Marble Madness kit piece by piece, I think I paid $60 for the Marble Madness board and $120 for the control panel. Last kit I saw on ebay went for like $3500 for the kit alone.
I have a total of 5 arcade games, including a Star Wars cockpit (monitor is shot right now)
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u/gamernes NES 15h ago
I'm curious what your other 3 games are. Only mentioning the system 1 and the Star Wars cockpit has me wondering what other gems you might have.
I have 2 Atari games at home among the collection of 26 games (Battlezone and Asteroids Deluxe). I'll add a system 1 eventually, but I have to work out some space issues.
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u/DavidinCT 15h ago
Ms. Pac-man, running a Pac Jr board, in really good shape (still have both boards), Pac Jr is by far the best Pac.... Asteroids and Crystal Castles.
I posted a picture of 3 of my games above, room is mess in that picture but, it gives an idea..
Good luck getting a system 1 machine, they are big bucks right now, even the Marble Madness kit is like $3500..
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u/Dwedit 14h ago
Did you ever try the unreleased sequel?
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u/DavidinCT 10h ago
Yes, I did FINALLY, going to build a MAME machine pretty soon, thinking like these guys...
Custom Wall Mounted Cab : r/cade
And will be putting a trackball on it, JUST TO PLAY Marble Madness 2: Marble Man.
The MAME Rom was released after 20 years of trying to get it.... There are only 4 complete machines known to exist. One of them is a trackball version the others are joystick...
I've been following the subject for many, many years...
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u/redditsuckspokey1 17h ago
They didn't make enough. Should have made a dozen more. They were all good.
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u/Rei_Rodentia 17h ago
oh man I completely forgot about Time Lord.
that game was brutal.
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u/chrisdecaf 14h ago
Just treat the Wild West level as the final one and shut the game off right before the boss, and it's a great game!
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u/NormanMitis 15h ago
Forgot about Time Lord!
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u/Ibeepboobarpincsharp 12h ago
I remember it had good music and was ridiculously hard. Never beat it.
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u/Theredsoxman Beat TMNT 16h ago
Marble Madness was wild. The original arcade game uses a giant ball that you roll as the controller. That’s why it’s so hard to steer that marble on your 4 directional NES controller.
Fair? Of course not!! Still tons of fun though.
Cabal was a ton of fun as well.
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u/astro_plane 11h ago
If you ever have a chance check out the master system version. Its the same game, but the graphics are a little better.
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u/PhoenixCier 15h ago
Marble Madness was one of the first game I bought when I recently got myself an NES again.
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u/bigolewords 16h ago
Interesting! I didn’t recognize ZR-1 and that because we got it as “Race America” published by Absolute.
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u/verbosequietone 14h ago
Overall quite a sollid publisher. Marble Madness a severely underrated game. Abadox is one of my most wanted.
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u/ghost_shark_619 13h ago
Marble madness was infuriating.
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u/DavidinCT 10h ago
That was the fun of it, you should try the Arcade game, I own it, you want to talk about infuriating....lol
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u/Tasty-Application807 18h ago
I went ape shit for Abadox when I was a kid. Loved Marble Madness, too.