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Rolling Madness - Today's Time Waster
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Mar 15th 2006 at 8:00AM
Marble Madness is hands-down one of my favorite arcade
games of all time. That said, I really stunk at it. Rolling Madness is
a clone of Marble Madness, done using OpenGL and other open source
tools... It looks great, and plays perfectly. Unfortunately, I'm just as bad at this as I was the original. The author
appears to have used the same music and sounds from the original game, which I hope doesn't cause any trouble, because
this one really takes me back. I can almost hear that pocketful of quarters jingling. One of the neat features in
Rolling Madness is that you can switch from a true perspective (possible with today's machines), as you see in the
screenshot here, or you can use the old perspective from the original, which was really an isometric view. Either way,
hours of frustrating ball rolling is yours to be had. I tried using the keyboard controls, but the mouse is a nice
change of pace. This has definitely secured a spot in my MAME cabinet (which does not yet exist). The only negative I
can find is that it's Windows only. Thanks to David for sending this in!
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Diddle said 3:40PM on 3-15-2006
Don't feel bad Victor, I think we ALL sucked at it. I must have dumped something like $200 in quarters into that box when I was a lad. ;)
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