Borench, 1990 Sega

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Published on July 30, 2017 8:16:28 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTJC1vEENGw

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Borench (1990)

Duration: 11:12

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Intriguing little 3D puzzle/maze game in which you guide a marble through a 3D maze (like Marble Madness), but here you set up little triangular borders to bounce the marble off and change its direction. You shuffle through the borders with a button and once the right one is placed you can move the cursor to a different location-- ALWAYS look ahead as you make your moves! The marble will keep rolling downwards, so don't dally. It rolls faster as you progress in the maze (and faster in later levels), but you can slow it down by setting it up to roll over the question marks in the maze. Note they are sometimes leading you to dead ends! You can force the ball to roll UPWARDS! Here the ball will roll a bit more slowly, but it's harder to see ahead of yourself this way. It's really hard to shuffle fast enough with the borders sometimes (there are 4 borders that angle the ball in 4 directions, and a tile that the marble can roll straight through-- but you can place this tile over the X's that the marble leaves behind (the other borders can't be placed here, and if the marble touches an X you lose a marble). If the marble rolls off the edge, runs smack into a border that doesn't change its direction, or runs into an X, you lose a marble-- and you only have two! The ultimate goal is to reach the finish line at the bottom. You can save a *little* time by positioning your cursor over an empty space in the maze-- that way you don't have to actually place a border before shuffling to the next one. This incredibly challenging game could use a few perks-- like maybe special uses for the question marks other than just slowing the marble down, and maybe not having the marble be so damn fast on the later levels! Still a very clever and addictive game. Suggested by YouTube user Namcotenterprises.