Wow, I had no idea it was such a short game. Felt like it had a hundred levels as a kid.

@bryanmccormick509

2 жыл бұрын

lol no that was bubble bobble

@noname-wv3ve

2 жыл бұрын

That's bc you died every 5 seconds

@Gosmoke.

2 жыл бұрын

The music omg so classic

@Gosmoke.

2 жыл бұрын

Way to short wow had no idea either

@clm45320

Жыл бұрын

Same here. It’s because we sucked.

This game was a work of art considering how old it is. I never realized how well made this is

@marccram2664

3 жыл бұрын

It looks like they really pushed the nes boundaries....before DKC did that on the SNES

@Romegyptian

2 жыл бұрын

The controls are so tight and satisfying

@bryansteele832

Жыл бұрын

I think Marc Cerny did this.

@Retrofire-47

3 ай бұрын

@@bryansteele832 Marc Cerny? huh, fascinating! an industry legend

@toddthomas4761

11 күн бұрын

One of my favorite of the NES era!

This game was always my kryptonite...just couldnt do it as a kid. Pissed me off to no end lol

@sjwilkin

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I remember getting to like level 4 or something ha

@cyyunga2703

5 жыл бұрын

I remember constantly being stuck level 4 as a kid and when I finally beat it with very little time left. I never got passed level 5, it took me nearly 12 years to get pass those levels.

@lolitis01

4 жыл бұрын

You guys suck 😂 I got the the last level when i was a kid but I still never beat that last level.

@sjwilkin

4 жыл бұрын

@@lolitis01 Shut up Erioch Barrlet

@curlytoes22

3 жыл бұрын

I ran out of patience at level 2 - we rented it once, but it was too stressful for me to stick with

The compositions are so brilliant, to cram such dramatic highs and lows, melody and chaos within a piece which lasts less than 20-30 seconds is pretty genius.

@Gamevet

Жыл бұрын

It sounds like ass on the NES. The notes being out of tune just makes my ears bleed.

@fourthwallbreak

Ай бұрын

As a musician I totally agree.

Man I remember playing this as a kid in the early 90s. I just got the old NES and this game out after watching this video. The soundtrack, visuals…screams 80s. Kids today really just don’t understand how great the 80s-90s were.

I can kill like 14 dragons with a sword and shield, 100's of men with a rifle and a pistol, evade police after stealing a car and running over pedestrians, but I can't roll a fucking ball through an obstacle course....today's games will never match the simple difficulty of those days

@dingbat3440

3 жыл бұрын

Super Meat Boy? Celeste? These games seem to garner simple mechanics for the difficulty they show.

@MochaFatTart

Жыл бұрын

Super monkey ball

@fgss77

Жыл бұрын

Perfect! Good old games.

Wow. That music just brought me back about 25 years. I'm feeling misty...lol

@eightiesboy

4 жыл бұрын

1984

@Abaddonian

3 жыл бұрын

The second level hits hard lol.

@Ijustinsultedyou

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe you just need to take a bath

@Ijustinsultedyou

2 жыл бұрын

@Read Father Seraphim Rose sniffs heroin, it will all be over soon

FIVE MINUTES??? This game can be beaten in five minutes? Amazing job, man!

@joycethe5-951

4 жыл бұрын

It's only 6 courses, and they are all timed. It couldn't possibly last much longer.

@thegame2834

4 жыл бұрын

@@joycethe5-951 3 minutes

@petefury94

4 жыл бұрын

@@joycethe5-951 he's just giving him a compliment! Could you not be a jackass?

@DirtySouthSOHK

4 жыл бұрын

The crazy thing is, if you don't beat it in about 5 minutes, it's Game Over 😂😂 I didn't realize that the level I could never beat was the last level!

@RainAngel111

3 жыл бұрын

I never got past the second level

I honestly think that this is one of the best arcade-to-NES translations ever made. I played this game so much as a kid it was ridiculous.

@marccram2664

3 жыл бұрын

The soundtrack was the only thing that threw me off when switching from NES and the arcade version lmao

@TheInkPitOx

2 жыл бұрын

Needs a tracball.

The controller precision on this game was insane.

@ClassicTVMan1981X

2 ай бұрын

You could choose 90 degrees or 45 degrees.

'EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG' oh Marble Madness you know me so well

This and Castlevania was my first NES game. I stayed up for almost 2 days after Christmas as a kid until I finally beat Marble Madness. At one point my mom came in and asked me if I stayed up all night playing, and I replied... No I just woke up 😂

@fgss77

Жыл бұрын

Classic.🤭

@pbee73

Жыл бұрын

Castlevania for me too, along with Blaster Master, Battletoads, Solar Jetman, Super Mario Bros and Mike Tysons Punch Out,. Oh and i like Megaman as well.

Am I the only one who was introduced to Hamster Ball Gold before finding out about this? The levels are...almost identical.

I didn’t realize how short this game was. I remember watching my brother and cousins play this game at my grandma’s house. Good times.

Wow. I loved this game when I was kid. I played it so many times. Still remember the music.

The music is so awesome in this game

Its been 19 years the last time I played this. Had no idea what game it was until now. I just remembered it.

This takes me back. I think the best I did was level 4. When playing this, the biggest challenge is not knowing what’s next, you get hesitant as you play a level for the first time and the frequency of revisiting the later levels to practise them is unheard of. Nice to see that they made it a challenge to last and make it memorable in the long term.

Timestamps: 0:19 Practice 0:42 Beginner 1:28 Intermediate 2:14 Aerial 3:05 Silly 3:53 Utimate

You wouldnt think a gdamn marble video game would be fun but that 3d aspect that this game had and the difficulty made it a blast to play.

The Beginner Race level theme song played on a episode of Captain N the Game Master that's where I recognized that song from when I heard it on the show.

I thought of this game out of the blue and am now watching this- love the music, love being in my late twenties!!

@joeyscerbo7776

3 жыл бұрын

How are your early 30s going? I hope great!

"Everything you know is wrong."

@RabidHobbit

4 жыл бұрын

Morpheus was trying so damn hard to get our attention, but we just wouldn't notice until it was too late.

@PIXPromosMore

3 жыл бұрын

@@RabidHobbit Morpheus? I was thinking Weird Al Yankovic

i remember being so mad at my friends while playing against them in this, but thinking about it now it was so awesome. thanks for posting childhood memories!!

I never finished the last level, so I never knew it was the last one. I always assumed there were way more

Not only a longplay, but also a speedrun!

I loved this game as a kid. I used to badger my parents to drive me to the airport because there was one in Departures.

Asombroso!! Gracias, nunca había visto el final del juego, bravo❤

I use to love this game when I was a teen

Well... this is a programming masterpiece... how they made that!?

Trip down memory lane. Nostalgia strikes again.

@xavien9854

4 жыл бұрын

Same used to love this game as a little kid.

The music is so 80s I love it

I remember this game, did not get far as a kid, but loved the music!

It’s crazy how back in the day cartridge space was so small that they had to increase the difficulty to such high extents so we didn’t instantly beat this game. Due to the great graphics, there were few levels! Just to think way later, went spent $30 on a game we could beat in a few minutes! Man, the gaming scene sure has improved. Not by the games, they are just as good, but graphics and storage space how increased so now we can have games have great graphics without being painstakingly hard!

@frankrusso8179

8 ай бұрын

I think you missed the point of the game…

This game was first developed by Tengen in 1984, and then published by Hasbro in 1989 under Hasbro Gaming (originally Milton Bradley). Hasbro also made “Jordan Vs. Bird - One On One” “Captain Skyhawk” and “Cabal” for the NES.

The very first use of a true stereo sound chip with real separate left and right audio.

I use to play this for hours! Great memories

@shakazulu8086

4 жыл бұрын

Me too. And it takes 5 mins to.complete haha. Crazy

i used to be so terrified of those black bowling balls and the green worm things and i think this is why i blocked all memory of this game until now holy shit

It has to be said this is a very good coin-op conversion,just as frustrating to play as the original too.

Why does the marble have a blood curdling scream when it falls? Distubing.

Sweet sounds of nostalgia 😊

Wow.... I'd kinda forgotten about this game, but this and other vids have brought a lot back... I remember that, after my brother and I had figured out how to beat the game quickly that we started to keep track of our final times and try to one-up each other. (An earlier emergent form of speed running? Maybe. (Given modern times ours were pretty bad, but I still dig that we had done that. (same goes for Zelda, etc.) Cheers, and, great vid! (+1, of course.)

First time I played this game was in 1990 as a 3rd grader. Holy hell this takes me back!

I just got some sickening nostalgia. Haven't thought about this game for over 25 years

When I first owned the NES, the games that I played were: Super Mario Bros, Paperboy, Double Dragon 2: The Revenge (my favourite of all!), California Games, Shadow Of The Ninja, Shadowgate, Batman, Operation Wolf, Castlevania 2: Simon’s Quest, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, McKids, Duck Hunt, and this.

very impressive visuals for its time

Man I remember loving this game as a little kid and totally sucking at it.

I never beat this game as a kid. Glad I got the walkthrough to see the Ending..

I played this so much

I like that oldschool nes marble madness 1984 and 1986

Wow the marble control you have is insane. I can't beat the last level for the life of me. Those disappearing paths just are beyond my skill level.

I remember playing this on my gba and raging at it. My first game I've ever raged at

I played this on a Commodore Amiga 1000. That machine was a decade before all others. Motorola 68k processor (factory and DoD compliant) and 3 chips named Agnes, Denise and Paula. Commodore, with the Vic-20, ‘64 and Amiga, were at the precipice of owning the PC market. The family must still be kicking themselves. They decided to take on Atari in game console market. They left a huge nugget for others to parlay.

Wow great memomories I loved that game i was playing it when I was visiting my cousin

Such a random game to have such good music.

you can always some reallys trange and interesting games on this world-of-longplays channel.

1988 me floor garage playing this till midnight 2022 its pops back in my head

Level 4 broke me as a kid... Lever SIX broke me now... But today I finally learned... THE TIMER CARRIES OVER TO THE NEXT LEVEL?!

Beautiful game

Level 2s music is beautiful

Who would have thought the concept of this game back in the day so long ago would bring the basis to the concept of modern speedrunning. Back then this would be the first title id speedrun, as it was the basis of the game. Do it faster, get more points. And now players across the internet do the same. This game was way ahead of its time.

This brings back very frustrating memories of playing this as a kid. This game was fucking hard as fuck.

Awesome video you are really good I can remember getting really frustrated at this game and my hands getting sweaty trying to beat it

this brings "ahead of its time" on a whpole another level

Love this game.

The player is making this look way easier than it actually is 😅

Kaaba with the slot of the marble madness on the left side of the square New exit strategy

Couple/Few notes….. 1: Black marble can be cracked for pts if pushed near the edge, which I always wait for it to come to me and kind of cross upwards to make it side hit into the edge. 2: That level that starts like a person, you can squeeze into the corners over to the other side of you wanted to, I just find that path easier. 3: The level with tiny enemies I believe you can just roll over and crush them, I forget if there’s any extra time, maybe pts for it as with the black marble cracking.

I'm just amazed to see I got as far into it as I did back then.

We use to be so poor as children I remember my big bro came home one day from middle school with a nes and two games!!!! I was like 6-7 so I was thrilled The two games were Solstice and marble madness A few days later my bro had to take it back to his friend Til day day whenever I play the two games I’m transported to those days… it was truly magical owning a nes

I remember the hype this game got when it first came out for NES...commercials raving about it and everything! Like a typical sucker of a kid, I wanted it something fierce. I'm glad my parents never bought it for me. I bought it for like $5 at Zappers and realized there were only like 5 boards in the whole game, and one of them was impossible.

Reminds me of some special gimmick stages on crash when he's inside a ball

Oh that moving surface on the Ultimate Race!!! 😳

Just amazing. No way I could have pulled half that stuff off.

I like that oldschool nes marble madness 1984 23 years ago I was born at chicago 1983 I like that oldschool nes

Damn these noises are so nostalgic

I used to win at the ultimate race...sure brings back some memories.....

I remember the 2nd level's music, I must have sucked at this game.

@supahcomix

3 жыл бұрын

i remember it because captain N had a sick remix of it

Its too bad that Marble Madness never came with with a map editor, just like Excite Bike had. This way we could enjoy the game longer. Either way, Marble Madness is still one of my favorite games.

Nice run dude

This game was the bane of my childhood, with Battletoads being a close second. I wasted an entire birthday present on the game knowing nothing about it. I must have tried dozens of times and only ever managed to eventually get to the Aerial stage. Absolutely did not have the patience or precision to beat this game. It's beyond humbling seeing that it can be done in all of five minutes.

@mor_64

2 жыл бұрын

Rare developed both Battletoads and a NES port of Marble Madness.

@MatthewBenson321

2 жыл бұрын

@@mor_64 I think in those days I had o conscious awareness of "Rare Ltd". Even Battletoads I attributed to Tradewest.

That was a fun game

Defeating the black marble and exposing its pin makes you look way more gangster.

This game left a lot of people frustrated back in the day. Still have my gray GB cartridge.

Great game this was, despite the length.

think i still hear the sound effects and music during my nightmares

I’m getting nostalgic this game final fantasy dragon warrior mega man super Mario bros 1,2,3 and the legend of Zelda were my favorite games I owned

‘Long’play.... yeah, sure, i believe you

This game is why I started collecting marbles lol!

I still have this game to this day. (NES)

@mavic6155

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah me2. I always wondered if the game only had a few levels, but now I see it does. After decades lol.

This game gave me fucked up anxiety. That goddamn ominous song alone makes every muscle in my body tense up

a winner is you!

This game is brutal

LOVE IT!

This is the last video game my sister ever played when we were kids after rage quitting.

This game was hard as hell! I dont think I ever completed it.

Wow you made this game look easy... It was so hard

Im pretty sure that first level was used as a level in grumps dream course

Today I learned I was only 1 level away from beating the game THIS ENTIRE TIME. Only 37 years later... never made it past those birds. 😭

I used to play that game as a teenager. It was hard! Lol