Marble Madness ROM

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Marble Madness was released for the Game Boy Color in December 1999. It involved navigating a marble through increasingly complex mazes within a specified time limit. Leftover minutes from the previous level were carried over. The game was originally an arcade game, and utilized a trackball. Because the NES game used the D-pad instead, the controls were notably harder.

The NES version was released by Milton Bradley. Marble Madness is an isometric platform game in which the player manipulates an onscreen marble from a third-person perspective. In the arcade version, a player controls the marble’s movements with a trackball; most home versions use game controllers with directional pads. The player’s goal is to complete six maze-like isometric race courses before a set amount of time expires.

With the exception of the first race, any time left on the clock at the end of a race is carried over to the next one, and the player is granted a set amount of additional time as well. The game allows two players to compete against each other, awarding bonus points and extra time to the winner of each race; both players have separate clocks.