Marble Madness – Cane and Rinse No.645

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🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 120 minutes

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“EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG” Mark Cerny's first full project as a prodigious teen game creator (after coding a 'mushroom growing algorithm' for Millipede) was Atari's surreal and challenging Marble Madness. Leon, Brian and Chris Worthington run all six courses, albeit over considerably longer than the two odd minutes in which it's possible to beat the game. Along with community contributors, we also take a look at the hit arcade game's many home and handheld conversions, as well as a slew of clones and spiritual successors, from Bobby Bearing to Kororinpa. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/podcast/cane_and_rinse_issue_645.mp3 Music featured in this issue: 1. Practice Stage by Brad Fuller/Hal Canon2. Beginner Stage by Brad Fuller/Hal Canon edited by Jay TaylorYou can support Cane and Rinse and in return receive an often extended version of the podcast four weeks early, along with exclusive podcasts, if you subscribe to our Patreon for the minimum of $2 per month (+VAT). Do you have an opinion about a game we're covering that you'd like read on the podcast? Then venture over to our forum and check out the list of upcoming games we're covering. Whilst there you can join in the conversations with our friendly community in discussing all things relating to videogames, along with lots of other stuff too. Sound good? Then come and say hello at The Cane and Rinse forum

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0:00.0	Hello. Hello everybody and welcome to the Canaan Rinse podcast, volume 13, issue 645.
0:30.6	And today we're going to be talking about marble madness.
0:34.7	Joining me, Leon Cox, in this issue, Brian Edwards.
0:37.8	Hello, hello, I'm here to finish the ultimate race.
0:42.6	Chris Worthington joins us too.
0:45.5	I'm here to fail the ultimate race many times.
0:48.7	Yeah, understandable.
0:51.3	Marble madness, in case you don't know, listener, is an arcade game in which you control
0:57.0	a marble, optionally two at the, two at a time actually, and attempt to race to the end
1:04.0	of a series of increasingly challenging and surrealistic isometric courses. So this was actually developed by Atari games,
1:14.7	under the umbrella of Atari games, distributed also by Atari as an arcade machine. It was
1:22.2	designed by Mark Serney. Now, no matter probably what age you are listening to this, you will be aware of
1:29.3	Mark Serney because this was his first full gaming development, although he had previously worked
1:36.8	on the mushroom growth algorithm for Millipede, the sequel to Centipede. This was his first fully designed game.
1:45.5	And then, of course, since then, he's gone on to work on Sonic 2, although he's uncredited
1:50.1	on that.
1:51.0	Kid Chameleon.
1:52.7	He worked on Crash Bandicoot, Spire of the Dragon, Jack and Daxter.
1:57.3	Obviously, more recently is, I've forgotten the guy's name
2:02.0	the funny robot,
2:03.6	clank, no, knack, that's it.
2:07.4	Clank's better.
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