Marble Madness - for NES

Marble Madness came to the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989, converted by Rare and published by Milton Bradley, bringing one of the decade's most distinctive arcade machines into the home. The idea is simple and merciless: guide your marble down six treacherous raceways built from sloping ramps, narrow ridges and sudden drops, hunting the hidden goal line before the clock runs out. What makes Marble Madness stand out is how it looks and feels, with a clean 3D perspective, a real sense of weight and momentum in the marble, and music written to suit each course.

Every raceway is its own maze of tricky terrain and marble menaces. You teeter along narrow paths, time your turns so momentum does not carry you over an edge, slip past the hungry Marble Munchers, and shove your way through the steelies that want the same stretch of track. Play alone in the battle against time, where every second saved on one course carries into the next, or take on a friend and race marble against marble to the finish. Either way, Marble Madness keeps you leaning forward, because the last ledge is as dangerous as the first.

Marble Madness endures because its challenge is so pure. Nothing hides behind menus or statistics: you either control the marble or you do not, and getting good at it feels like learning a physical skill. Short courses and a running clock make it ideal for passing the controller around, and the two player race is still one of the best arguments for keeping an eight bit console hooked up. For collectors, this is Rare at work on the Nintendo Entertainment System, published under the Milton Bradley name, and Marble Madness remains one of the most recognizable cartridges of 1989.

• Genre: Action Puzzle
• Players: 1-2
• Region: NTSC
• Release Year: 1989
• Developer: Rare

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