Marble Blast Gold
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Marble Blast Gold is an arcade action game with simple yet addictive gameplay, suitable for players of any age. In the rich cartoon landscape of Marble Blast Gold, players will race their marbles through moving platforms, dangerous hazards, sparkling treasures and power up enhancements in an effort to complete each course in record time.
Marble Blast Gold introduces new players to the game with a set of progressively more difficult beginner training levels, each designed to showcase a power up or game hazard. The hazards players will face in Marble Blast include powerful fans, whirling tornados, land mines, pinball-style bumpers, narrow catwalks, moving pistons, dizzying chasms, and more.
To get past these obstacles, players can find and use five different ability enhancing power ups - the SuperSpeed, SuperJump, SuperBounce, Shock Absorber and Gyrocopter. Some levels contain gravity modifiers, which allow the player to change the direction of gravity.
Marble Blast Gold comes with 100 whimsical and challenging levels, as well as the ability for advanced players to craft and share their own levels. Each level has "gold standard" set for the high score, so you can test your skills against the record 'gold' times. Marble Blast Gold is sure to provide many hours of fun for the whole family.
Marble Blast Press Reviews
Adrenaline Vault
Marble Blast offers PC owners something that no current retail product does: Highly polished arcade gameplay that's addictive and fun... Ultimately, Marble Blast is a cool groove of a game that's easy to pick up and hard to put down."
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Mac World
"The Bottom Line Let's hope that Marble Blast is the first of many Mac games from Garage Games. It's a refreshing bit of arcade fun suitable for kids and grownups alike."
Read the Peter Cohen's Review Here
My Mac.com - MacMice Rating: 4 out of 5
"Marble Blast has one of those "son of a bitch!" gameplay styles where you know exactly what you did wrong and also know what you need to do to correct said mistake. The SOB factor is what makes game play addictive, if you know where you went wrong, heck why not go back and get it right?"
Read Chris Siebold Full Review Here
Linux Gaming - Overall: 8/10 - 4 Stars
"The game is suitable for players of all ages, and children especially will enjoy the bright cartoony graphics and the bubbly music while trying to find their way around the levels. Bags of enjoyment to be had for a small price... Very easy to pick up and play, hard to put back down. Highly recommended."
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Sharewaregaming.com - Overall: 4.5/5 - 90%
"Gameplay is quite good...Overall this is one of the more original and interesting titles to come out in a while and everyone should download the free demo and give it a go."
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ELiTeD.net
"Now, the advanced levels are more difficult, and you can't pansy foot around either or the clock will beat you. Here you might have to race the clock and do tricks while collecting gems on your way to the finish line. It is a blast!"
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Features
100 Levels Give You the Ultimate Marble Blast!
Beginner Levels- Are designed for learning how to play Marble Blast Gold. Here are some samples:
- Learning to Roll - Getting ready to roll takes some practice.
- Jump Training - Using the space bar to jump to the upper ramp.
- Air Movement - Spinning the marble in mid-air to guide your fall.
- Platform Training - Catching the platform to move between towers.
- Learn to SuperJump - Using the SuperJump powerup to the big leaps.
- Learn the SuperSpeed - Using SuperSpeed to get where you need to go.
- Gyrocopter - Teach your marble to fly!
- SuperBounce - Using the left mouse button to power up your SuperBounce.
- ShockAbsorber - Minimize your fall with the SuperAbsorber
- Gravity Helix - Fiddle with physics and roll your marble upside down.
- Bumper Training - Avoid them unless you enjoy being a first person pinball.
- Duct Fan Hazards - This level will blow you away, literally.
- Mine Field - Some times hitting a mine can be a Blast, but doesn't get high score.
- Tornado Bowl, Trapdoors & Pitfalls Oh my! - Did we mention falling off the platform is nearly unrecoverable?
Intermediate Levels The fun really takes off on these levels, here are just a few:
- Skate Park - You gotta skate for the gems.
- Fork in the Road - When you come to fork in the road take it.
- Marbletris - Collect all the gems in less than a minute.
- SkeetBall Bonus - Go through the highest opening for the largest time bonus.
- Gauntlet - Gives time trials a whole new meaning.
- The Wave - Surf the wave and collect all the gems in less than 45 seconds.
- Monster Speedway - You'll need to take a pit stop to finish the race.
- Upward Spiral - Follow the yellow brick road to the top.
Advanced Levels This is where you know if you're up to the Marble Blast challenge:
- A-Maze-ing - You may feel like a rat in a maze before you finish this level. The Gold edition provides 28 additional expert uber levels to test even the most skilled of players.
- Half Pipe Elite - Grab the gems as you do trick moves between the half-pipes.
- Esher's Race - Find the gems as quickly as you can.
- Skyscraper - Deliver all the gems to the top of the skyscraper.
- Tube Treasure - Totally tubular this level makes finding the gems fastest a pipe dream.
- To the Moon - You gotta shoot your way to the moon or at least to the landing pad..
- Around the World in 30 seconds - Not for those afraid of heights
- Will o' Wisp - Don't make a miss step.
Gold Edition 28 advanced levels to challenge even expert players:
- Airwalk - Defy gravity as you manuver over a field of fans.
- Battlements - Make your way to the inner keep of the castle.
- Pinball Wizard - No arcade is complete without a game of pinball.
- King of the Mountain - You must pass a series of challenges to assend up the path to the peak.
System Requirements
Windows 98/SE/ME/2000/XP
Pentium II 400, 64 MB RAM
OpenGL or DirectX Compatible 3D Graphics Accelerator
DirectX compatible Soundcard
Macintosh OS X (version 10.1 or greater)
G4 Processor Recommended
64 MB RAM
OpenGL Compatible 3D Graphics Accelerator
Linux Distributions
Including: Lindows 3.0, Redhat 7.1+, SuSE 7.1+, Mandrake 8.x+, Debian 3.0+.
Pentium 400, 128 MB RAM,
NVIDIA TNT2, ATI Radeon 8500 or better 3D Graphics Accelerator Linux-supported sound card.
Kernel 2.4 and glibc 2.2, XFree86 4.0 or newer with hardware accelerated OpenGL drivers.
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About GarageGames
 | GarageGames Marble Blast Gold was developed internally at GarageGames with help from Kevin Ryan. GarageGames' mission is to help indie developers make money from their games by providing technology, team collaboration, and a marketplace. GarageGames founders still want to make games though and Marble Blast Gold is the first of many more to come. |
Community Reviews and Discussion
Customer review from Amanda May, Nov 25, 2006 at 15:40 GMT 
"This game is AWESOME!!!! Once you have the hang of Intermediate Levels You are Having Fun! But my goal is custom! You can MAKE YOUR OWN LEVELS!!!"
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