Game Classification

Marble Madness Atari Games / Mark Cerny (U.S.A.), Atari Games (U.S.A.), 1984  

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Classification

VIDEO GAME

Keywords

Platform - Racing

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 12 to 16 years old / 17 to 25 years old / 25 to 35 years old
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
AVOID : explanation of this brick MATCH : explanation of this brick MOVE : explanation of this brick
1 analysis

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Marble Madness Marble Madness is an arcade video game designed by Mark Cerny, and published by Atari Games in 1984. It is a platform game in which the player must guide an onscreen marble through six courses, populated with obstacles and enemies, within a time limit. The player controls the marble by using a trackball. Marble Madness is known for using innovative game technologies. It was one of the first games to use true stereo sound?previous games used either monaural sound or simulated stereo?and it was Atari's first to use the Atari System 1 hardware and to be programmed in the C programming language. [source:wikipedia]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Amiga - Arcade - NES (Famicom)

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