The marble madness 2 marble man coin operated videogame by atari games circa 1991 and it s history and background photos repair help manuals for sale and wanted lists and census survey is brought to you by the international arcade museum at the museum of the game.
Marble man marble madness ii.
Marble madness ii was never officially released but the few proto machines are in the hands of various collectors.
Marble madness ii was planned for release in 1991 though cerny was uninvolved in the development.
Marble man rom dumps joystick version and a driver for the mame emulator exist but are not publicly available at this time due to restrictions that were placed on the purchase of the machines from which the dumps were made.
Atari s 1984 marble madness was a successful arcade game which has maintained an avid cult following over the years the game was widely acclaimed for its accessible but highly difficult gameplay its early use of 3d level designs its music and its entertaining addictiveness.
Unwanted by operators gamers alike.
Because the market s demographic was a younger audience flanagan wanted.
Atari made marble madness and the arcade game they made was eventually ported to nes.
However again the coin op market was evolving and with the street fighter 2 craze hitting the scene atari shelved it a second time to focus on primal rage.
This was a whole new game with new features many more levels than the original and a mascot character marble man.
An arcade sequel titled marble man.
Marble madness 2 planned for release in 1991.
And thus after some more delays the game kind of became outdated no longer viable or desirable in the industry.
Phantomdj s footage from the game which he claims to own a copy of.
A longer more involved sequel was desired and this was put into development with the result being marble man.
Marble man but never released it.
Development was led by bob flanagan who designed the game based on what he felt made marble madness a success in the home console market.
Two marble man machines showed up at the 2003 classic arcade games show california extreme san jose california.