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 pc.
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4 0 out of 5 stars marble drop.
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Reviewed in the united states on march 23 2013.
The object of the game is to collect marble sets.
This is very dumb that it is required that i explain why i chose this rating.
The incredible machine series of physics based puzzlers is a true classic set of games which anyone with an interest in stretching the old gray cells should seriously consider adding to their collection.
Marble drop is an object based puzzle game similar to a cross between the incredible machine and pachinko.
Marble drop allows you to in effect cheat by buying extra marbles at will by spending points.
I think this takes a lot away from the game.
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.
Select a set by clicking on one of the marbles in the set.
A marble set is a group of identical marbles connected to each other left and right or up and down.
The larger the marble set collected the larger the score.
Marble drop is a 1997 puzzle game made by maxis the same company that later created the sims.
I like it that s why.
The introduction of elements like track switchers sensors and ball traps increase the complexity of the game rapidly.
The game supported windows 3 1 and 95.
Luckily you can tell if you ve solved the puzzle via the optimum solution if you get a 5000 point efficiency bonus at the end of the level.
Thankfully the developers did not rely on win16 support on windows 95 and instead on the disk we can find both a win16 and a win32 version which requires some fixing to work on modern systems.
Marble drop allows several different people to play and will save their games separately so each person s progression through the levels is independent of other players.
Marble drop is one of these successes.
There is competitive scoring for each level which gives some incentive to achieve a higher score and not use up as many marbles.
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.
