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Marble Madness Madness!

by Ryan Davis on January 19, 2009
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This guy makes Marble Madness look easy, and that's just crazy.

Speaking of Marble Madness (kinda, I guess,) check out this video of the best Marble Madness player ever. There was a time that I was no slouch at Marble Madness, and though I know players that are better than me, I'm probably still the best Marble Madness player in the office (an auspicition distinction, for sure.) But this guy makes everyone else I've ever seen look like they've been trying to play with their feet. Watching this video has the simultaneous effect of making me feel really bad about myself, and never want to play Marble Madness again. Notice the little picture-in-picture of his hands on what appears to be a proper Marble Madness arcade machine, defusing most of the potential speculation that this play-through is somehow machine-assisted.

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Ryan

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Speaking ofMarble Madness (kinda, I guess,) check out this video of the best Marble Madness player ever. There was a time that I was no slouch at Marble Madness, and though I know players that are better than me, I'm probably still the best Marble Madness player in the office (an auspicition distinction, for sure.) But this guy makes everyone else I've ever seen look like they've been trying to play with their feet. Watching this video has the simultaneous effect of making me feel really bad about myself, and never want to play Marble Madness again. Notice the little picture-in-picture of his hands on what appears to be a proper Marble Madness arcade machine, defusing most of the potential speculation that this play-through is somehow machine-assisted.

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vinny

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impossible. madness.

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Da_Muffin_Man

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I would really like to know how much time he spent becoming such a beast at this game.

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:O wonder how many coins he have feed the machine^^ Awsome nontheless

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Brackynews

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It's all about the two-palming.

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JunkanooPunch

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insane....

15 years ago

LordAndrew

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So all I have to do is follow his motions exactly and I can be as good as him? No? It doesn't work that way? Damn.

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player66

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Damn! My older brother bought a trackball for our Apple II specifically to play Marble Madness. I don't think I ever saw him beat the game, let alone with such skill and aplomb.

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Cubical

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ill pretend to play marble madness on my arcade machine then put it next to this videoina tiny window and pass it off as me playing it.

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zityz

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Thats Madness I tell you! I remember playing that on the NES and I had so much trouble with the 4th board. That guys is stupid good, should be illegal.

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What a wonderfully musical game! I love the sound effects...damn whimsical.

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Cubical

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The nes game is hard because the controls suck there is no tack ball.,

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The music is so scary!!!

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Yeah, you can call it Marble Madness if you want. Me, instead of Paperboy, I say Paper. Instead of Crystal Castles, I say Crystal. Marble Madness, I call it Marble.

(That's apropo of nothing other than the fact that I first saw both this Marble Madness video, and this outtake footage from King of Kong--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3zQtURu4pY

--at the same time last night, and the two are now forever fused in my mind.)

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Claude

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You have magic hands Ryan, but that guy wow... those are some good hands.

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THIS!

IS!

SPARTA!

wait...

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that's great

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stephengotlost

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SPOILERS

he loses a marble at 2:20

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i can do that

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Da_Muffin_Man said:

"I would really like to know how much time he spent becoming such a beast at this game."

probable to much...

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that dude discovered perhaps the only way to be less attractive to chicks then i am.

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Must have practiced a lot. I quietly wait for the MAME community to dumb Marble Man: Marble Madness 2 Rom... *sigh* it will never happen.

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SECOND WTF

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i prefer the 5 point palm heart exploding technique as made famous by Beatrix Kiddo.

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Wow that was crazy, his hands are so precise on every single move he makes, must have played this game a few times.

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Man, that takes some patience...

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I suddenly want to play some marble madness.

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Oh my god that music freaks me out so much!

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Just the speed and precision, its insane!

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This is both terrifying and awesome at the same time.

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He dies once. FAILURE!

Nah but seriously, I always get to the final level and can never beat it. :(

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Lol I kinda lol'd when it said 2nd I was like ah you're good but not highest score good and then it turns out 'MMM' is all him anyway! :D

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Wow that game takes me back ... I spent quite a bit of coinage trying to master that thing ( Never did ) but for some reason i couldn't stop myself from trying

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auspicious*
<33

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This is blasphemy! This is madness!

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You don't mess with Marble Madness son. I remember trying over and over and over to get past a certain bit on like the 3rd level and never making it... Oh man, it was such a genius game though when it came out.

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