May still be far off from the highest scores you guys are getting, but for me, this is a big achievement, quite an awesome score(s) for myself. It took me about a half a dozen tries of warming up before I actually beat any games of it, but once I did I kept at it, only losing one time somewhere in between all that, also, only chose to record scores for games completed. Anyway, broke my previous high score (113.590) from last year (8/22/08) a couple times over, and quite a bit at that. First stage I don't know why but 90 something percent of the time I lose a marble or two, those ramps are difficult to run up, though the one lost in my last game I just missed the ramp all together. Second stage is always easy, third isn't so bad either, but the fourth stage, ugh, this is where I usually lose multiple marbles, especially at that last spot with the hammer things, though I did pretty good that last game. Fifth stage only has one difficult spot, though I am getting better at those odd slopes. Stage six is actually one of the easier stages in the game, not at first of coarse, but having had a lot of practice I can zoom through this one really quick sometimes without even losing a marble. Okay, never bothered to pay much attention before, but I see how those high scores can be earned, have a shitload of time left over at the end, each second equaling 1000 points, and don't die so much otherwise minus 1000 points each death, I thinks I can improve my game, I'll give it some more attempts when I'm up for it. But still there's one thing that I'm puzzled by, what causes the magic wand to appear when it does, seems so random, its a good thing, gives you more time, though sometimes the damn thing appears at the most inopportune times.
Marble Madness (old scores)
08/22/08
1st game (1st time ever beating this game on my 23rd logged attempt): beat it with 13 deaths, score 70.390
2nd game (2nd time in a row): beat it with 17 deaths, score 78.680
3rd game (3rd time in a row): beat it with 11 deaths, score 82.570
4th game (4th time in a row): beat it with 8 deaths, score 113.590
(lost two games between here)
5th game: beat it with 12 deaths, score 103.250
6th game (2nd time in a row): beat it with 14 deaths, score 94.990
7th game (3rd time in a row): beat it with 16 deaths, score 60.350
(lost a game between here)
8th game: beat it with 8 deaths, score 87.340
Marble Madness (new scores)
08/25/09
9th game: beat it with ?? deaths, Score 97.840
10th game (2nd time in a row): beat it with 13 deaths, Score 88.950
11th game (3rd time in a row): beat it with 11 deaths, Score 104.670
(lost a game between here)
12th game: beat it with 7 deaths, Score 110.720
13th game (2nd time in a row): beat it with 13 deaths, Score 76.600
14th game (3rd time in a row): beat it with 16 deaths, Score 68.670
15th game (4th time in a row): beat it with 12 deaths, Score 102.020
16st game (5th time in a row): beat it with 14 deaths, Score 98.820
17nd game (6th time in a row): beat it with 12 deaths, Score 106.750
18rd game (7th time in a row): beat it with 10 deaths, Score 126.550
19th game (8th time in a row): beat it with 19 deaths, Score 72.200
20th game (9th time in a row): beat it with 12 deaths, Score 96.470
21st game (10th time in a row): beat it with 15 deaths, Score 94.550
22nd game (11th time in a row): beat it with 20 deaths, Score 63.920
23rd game (12th time in a row): beat it with 11 deaths, Score 95.630
24th game (13th time in a row): beat it with 5 deaths, Score 130.640
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