Time Travel: Freezes the in-game timer for a varying amount of time, usually 5 seconds, allowing for lower finishing times. The marble can also jump much higher, and falls much more slowly. Gyrocopter: Gives the marble the ability to fly for 5 seconds. While active, the marble is surrounded by a semi-transparent sphere. Super Bounce: Allows the marble to bounce much higher than usual for 5 seconds. Shock Absorber: Disables the marble from bouncing for 5 seconds. Super Speed: Gives the marble an instant speed boost in the direction the camera is pointing in. Super Jump: Gives the marble an instant upward boost.
Only one inventory power-up can be held at a time, although multiple power-ups can be used by stacking their effects in a certain way. Non-inventory power-ups are instantly activated when touched, and inventory power-ups are activated by the player. There are 7 power-ups available to the player. There are 100 levels, categorized by difficulty: 24 Beginner, 24 Intermediate, and 52 Advanced. Some levels require a number of gems to be picked up before the level can be finished. Each gold time is always possible but usually involves finding hidden powerups and/or taking shortcuts. Each level also has a "Gold Time", an additional challenge to complete the level in a specified time-frame.
Some levels must be completed within a Qualification time, to increase difficulty. There is a variety of power-ups available to the player, which are collected by touching them with the marble. The player controls the marble spin, and therefore movement, and can also make the marble jump. Levels may contain hazards to make this more difficult.
Modifications have also been created for Marble Blast Gold by the Marble Blast community, most notably Marble Blast Platinum, Marble Blast Powered Up, and Marble Blast Emerald.īasic gameplay involves taking the perspective of an autonomous marble moving on its own from a start pad to an end pad, without falling out of bounds. At some point during 2003when?, it was also licensed to eGames to be resold under the name Marble Blaster. The game was originally released in December 2002 as Marble Blast and then updated in May 2003, being renamed as Marble Blast Gold. Marble Blast Gold was also ported over to the Microsoft Xbox through the Xbox Live Arcade service the following year with enhanced graphics. Marble Blast XP, a version for the Net Jet online game system, has updated graphics and a marble selector.
The sequel, Marble Blast Ultra, was released a few years later for the Xbox 360 platform with new features and improved graphics. It is also available for Windows operating systems as well as various Linux distributions. computers like the iMac, iBook, and Mac mini. Marble Blast Gold is a 2002 3D platform game.
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