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| Marble Blast | |
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| Developer(s) | GarageGames |
| Publisher(s) | Monster Studios |
| Engine | Torque Game Engine |
| Platform(s) | Xbox Windows Mac OS X Linux |
| Release | December 13, 2002 (Marble Blast)[1] May 2, 2002 (Marble Blaster)[citation needed] May 9, 2003 (Marble Blast Gold)[2] |
| Genre(s) | Puzzle-platformer |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Marble Blast is a 2002 3D platform game. It was pre-installed on some Apple Inc. computer systems like the iMac, iBook, and Mac mini. It was also available for Windows operating systems as well as various Linux distributions. It was remade for the XBOX Live Arcade during Marble Blast's final years.
The game was originally released in December 2002 as "Marble Blast" and then updated in May 2003, being renamed Marble Blast Gold. During the same year at some point, it was also licensed to eGames to be resold under the name Marble Blaster.[3]
The sequel, Marble Blast Ultra, was released in 2006 for the Xbox 360 platform with new features and improved graphics, sometime after the enhanced version of Marble Blast for the XBOX Live Arcade[4] which released one year earlier. A spiritual successor to Gold and Ultra, Marble It Up!, was released for the Nintendo Switch in September 2018, later being ported to Windows and Apple Arcade later that year. Marble Blast XP, a version for the Net Jet online game system, has updated graphics and a marble selector.
A tribute to Marble Blast, called Great Marble Adventure, was released in 2022. There are also modifications of the game that have also been created by members of the Marble Blast Community, most notably Marble Blast Platinum & PlatinumQuest, Marble Blast Powered Up, Quaternion, and STOP DeluXe.
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Marble Blast Goes Gold - GarageGames". Archived from the original on June 3, 2003. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Harmon, Mark (June 12, 2003). "Marble Blaster == Marble Blast?". GarageGames. Archived from the original on May 26, 2022. Retrieved November 27, 2022.
- ^ Pringle, James (August 4, 2004). "Marble Blast Rols on Over to Xbox". IGN. Archived from the original on October 31, 2005. Retrieved September 4, 2024.