Marble Madness (Tandy/MSDOS) (Atari/Electronic Arts 1984/1986)

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Published on February 12, 2017 4:04:23 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDf8wBd340w

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Marble Madness (1984)

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You know what's hard to play in dosbox? A game that was originally designed for trackball joysticks that never existed. This is a game that really needed an analog trackball joystick when none were available.

I actually have a few logitech trackballs, but they are mouse devices, not joysticks, so they can't be used on this. The play you see is actually the left-hand keyboard, which is largely how I played it on the original Tandy 1000 I had. I tried an earlier play with the XBOX360 controller and everything just flies off the screen.

If you are looking for the best version to play, it goes Arcade, Amiga, Sega MegaDrive (Sega Genesis), and all the 8-bit ports are various degrees of awful except the Gameboy, NES and Sega Master System. The FM-Towns and Sharp X68000 are fairly good ports with interesting music mixes.

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