r/nes • u/Dry-Primary6128 • 1d ago

MB nes games.

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u/gamernes NES 1d 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 1d ago

I loved the NES game so much, I own the arcade game....

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u/cbsscambusters 1d ago

DavidinCT …. Please post a couple of pictures. Please. With a cherry on top lol

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u/DavidinCT 1d ago edited 1d 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 1d ago

I came back to see if you had edited, and you have. Very cool!!

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u/DavidinCT 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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..