This is an original "race" to the finish, because you play as a marble and go down a 3D course full of traps, hazards like puddles of acid, vacuums, enemy marbles, slinkies that eat your marble and several challenges. This is not a game for children or anyone who can get frustrated easily, because first of all the controls are not where you press down and your marble goes down, when you press down your marble goes diagonally down and left! Secondly, if you fall far enough, your marble will break and crumble, but fear not, because you have unlimited "marbles," however you are limited by time. Once your time runs out, that's it! There are only five courses in the game. This game is a perfect recreation of the original Nintendo game. There are no Gameboy Color features (there is a Gameboy Color version), however there is a two player linked mode, so two players can race each other down the course.

Marble Madness is a game that is like a three-dimensional maze. This is why I liked it so much. The object is that you have to get your marble to the end of the maze in five different levels. The catch is that it doesn't tell you where the end of the maze is. To find it, you must get through obstacles. The key, in this game, is strategy.