Marble Boy (C64)

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Goal of the Game

You are Marble Boy and you need to collect 45 pennants/banners in a given order. 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

• 4 courses/colour themes: Grand Canyon, Blue Lagoon, Red Velvet and The Moon
• Each course comes with 10 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 (enhanced Disk Version)
• Choose the marble speed that suits you best (enhanced Disk Version only)
• 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.

Control

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

In the title screen you can press the following keys on your keyboard:

<F1> Switch to course 1: Grand Canyon
<F3> Switch to course 2: Blue Lagoon
<F5> Switch to course 3: Red Velvet
<F7> Switch to course 4: The Moon

Numbers <0>-<9> offer you alternate challenges with a different sequence of flags. Number <0> relates to the initial seed.

During gameplay press (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 only). 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 Player
• PAL and NTSC compatible
• Also playable on Windows/MacOS/iOS/Android (C64 Emulator required)

This game was made as a contribution to the 2022 Reset64 4KB Craptastic Game Competition:
https://ausretrogamer.com/2022-reset64-4kb-craptastic-game-competition/