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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 by SegaSoft and published by Sega for Windows-based computers. It was also re-released as part of Sega PC Puzzle Pack. The idea of the game is to line up three marbles of the same color within the black square. Doing so would add extra marbles to the opponent's play area. Perhaps 'marbles' meant 'mind' or 'wits' before 'lose one's marbles' was coined. That's worth investigation at least, so let's have a go. Marbles are, of course, the little glass or metal balls that children use to play the eponymous game.
Lose Your Marbles is a puzzle game developed and published by Segasoft and released for the PC on August 31, 1997.
A version of the game was included in Microsoft Plus! 98.[2]
Gameplay[edit]
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[edit]
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Windows 7 pro 64 bit dvd. 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[edit]
SEGA boldly claimed 'More addictive than Tetris or your money back!' This was not a gimmick - SegaSoft actually would issue refunds for unsatisfied players.[3]
Reception[edit]
Next Generation reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that 'Lose Your Marbles is actually quite fun, even if it doesn't grab players quite like Tetris or have the same staying power.'[4]
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.'[5]
References[edit]
Lose Your Marbles can be played for free in the browser at the Internet Archive
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- ^'Lose Your Marbles'. Gamespot. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
- ^https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-server/plus-windows-98-review
- ^'Lose Your Marbles Review'. Game Revolution. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
- ^'Finals'. Next Generation. No. 36. Imagine Media. December 1997. p. 174.
- ^Staff (March 1998). 'CGW Presents The Best & Worst of 1997'. Computer Gaming World (164): 74–77, 80, 84, 88, 89.
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