Super Marble Boy (C64) - Coming Soon...

Super Marble Boy is still under development but feel free to try out my 4K Marble Boy version - for free https://romwer.itch.io/marbleboy or have a look at my other C64 productions https://romwer.itch.io.

Goal of the Game

You are Marble Boy and you need to collect 45 pennants/banners in a given order and time. Watch out for holes, work on your manoeuvring skills and learn to take shortcuts to save valuable seconds. Are you swift enough to reach the finishing line?

Features

• 5 courses/colour themes: Grand Canyon, Blue Lagoon, Rainforest, Red Velvet and The Moon
• Each course comes with 5 different challenges and each challenge has its own High score table
• Fast paced action and smooth marble movements makes this a dream to play
• High score will be saved to disk
• 2 Player mode for double the fun
• Easy to learn, hard to master

Tip: General moving also collects points. When competing with your friends then finding the perfect path and flow will make all the difference in the end score.

Trivia: This game is an homage to two of my favourite arcade games: Marble Madness where you control a marble and play on a checkered background and Buggy Boy, where you pick up flags to make points. Hence the name "Marble Boy". Recognition effect is intended but otherwise the game, graphic and sound is all made from scratch and offers its own unique gameplay experience. Have a great marble run!

Control

Joystick in Port 2 - Use the Joystick to navigate Marble Boy around the course. Press the fire button to jump over holes.

Joystick in Port 1- Use the Fire Button to start the two-player-"Capture the flag".

During gameplay press <RUNSTOP> (or ESC in VICE Emulator) when you are unhappy with your current run to abort the game and return to the title screen, so you can quickly start again.

The game starts in Pro mode which means the marble reacts and moves quite fast. The minus key <-> allows you to decrease the marble speed (enhanced disk version). Reducing the speed will show a little bar graph element in the score row. Pressing <+> (plus symbol) will increase the speed again. The bar graph will disappear when you have set the marble back to its original speed.

When the time runs out and you have a high enough score then after pressing the fire button your are asked to enter your name for the high score table. Use the keyboard to write and press <RETURN> to confirm. You can also use <DEL> to correct.

Game Requirements

• C64/C128 (also works on C64 Mini and C64 Maxi)
• 1 or 2 Player
• PAL and NTSC compatible
• Also playable on Windows/MacOS/iOS/Android (C64 Emulator required)