Marble Drop Run

The game supported windows 3 1 and 95.

Marble drop run.

The game mechanics are simple drop colored marbles in the correct funnels in the correct sequence to have them end in the desired target receptacle. In essence you have to visualise what will happen. It combines some cleverly designed puzzles with an easy to use interface to make an enjoyable bit of puzzling action. If the marble runs over a button it might activate a diverter and send the next marble somewhere completely different.

Sometimes you can spot the principle immediately. Marble drop is an object based puzzle game similar to a cross between the incredible machine and pachinko. Marble drop addition is an arcade style educational game for kids to practice addition. Marble madness the goal of marble drop is to put colored marbles into the right slots by dropping them into a maze of chutes tubes and gadgets.

Marble drop is a similarly themed title which isn t quite so good as its inspiration but which is still well worth a closer inspection. Marble drop is a 1997 puzzle game made by maxis the same company that later created the sims. Players will learn that there are often many different combinations of numbers that add up to the target number. To play the game kids must collect numbered marbles that add up to the target number shown at the top of the screen.

From the entrance it goes 200 cm upwards in a special elevator. Marble drop is one of these successes. Gameplay involves depositing marbles of different colors into tiny funnels which will race down tracks trigger events and hopefully wind up in the corresponding color bin. It s not quite a rube goldberg machine but each level is an elaborate contraption with plenty of moving ramps elevators switches cannons crossbows open flames and spinning doohickeys.

The introduction of elements like track switchers sensors and ball traps increase the complexity of the game rapidly. You are the yellow marble on the rafting track. When your marble runs over certain sections the paths are re routed to different parts of the contraption. Followed by 500 cm of acrylic glass tube.