Filed under: Fun, Games, Freeware, Time-Wasters
Rolling Madness - Today's Time Waster
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Mar 15th 2006
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!
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
