Lose Your Marbles
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Developer(s) | SegaSoft |
Publisher(s) | SegaSoft |
Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
Release | August 31, 1997 (PC, North America)[1] |
Genre(s) | Puzzle |
Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
Lose Your Marbles is a puzzle game developed and published by Segasoft and released for the PC on August 31, 1997.
Gameplay
In Lose Your Marbles the player moves each color of marbles to create matches on the playing field while the game drops new ones every few seconds. Whether played against a human or the CPU, the goal in Lose Your Marbles is to force the other player's board full of marbles. Creating matches of three, four, or five marbles clears those marbles from the player's board. In addition, a match of five will send marbles to the opposing player's board. The game in hard mode has a tactic after the player wins 6 games to change its skill and win every single other game. This cause the player to literally lose their marbles.
Multiplayer
Due to its simplistic controls, Lose Your Marbles can be played with two players with one keyboard. Lose Your Marbles also features a LAN multiplayer mode to connect 2 players over a local network.
Advertising
SEGA boldly claimed "More addictive than Tetris or your money back!" This was not a gimmick - SegaSoft actually would issue refunds for unsatisfied players.[2]
Reception
Lose Your Marbles was a runner-up for Computer Gaming World's 1997 "Puzzle Game of the Year" award, which ultimately went to Smart Games Challenge 2. The editors called Lose Your Marbles "the best Tetris clone we've seen since last year's winner, Baku Baku."[3]
References
Lose Your Marbles can be played for free in the browser at the Internet Archive
- ↑ "Lose Your Marbles". Gamespot. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
- ↑ "Lose Your Marbles Review". Game Revolution. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
- ↑ Staff (March 1998). "CGW Presents The Best & Worst of 1997". Computer Gaming World (164): 74–77, 80, 84, 88, 89.