1987 Color Magic
by Mac and Sla
Created using the Marble Madness construction kit. It's called Gyroscope II (and not Marble Madness II), for legal rights, because Gyroscope was the unofficial Marble Madness arcade version.
There is not much to say about the game, it's simply Marble Madness with new levels.
Review by YOR on 12 Oct 2020 (Rating: 2)
Marble Madness after Marble Madness with Marble Madness, what the hell am I talking about? Well, a year after the official release of Marble Madness and two years after the release of its unofficial clone Gyroscope came its unofficial sequel Gyroscope II, written with the Construction Kit from Marble Madness. This to my knowledge is the only game on the Spectrum archive to be written with the Marble Madness Construction Kit and having played this I can now see why. Now again I stress, I was not a fan of the Spectrum port of Marble Madness, and this manages to be even worse. Yes they added more points bonuses in the levels but they only serve as a waste of time, you only have a few seconds to clear each screen or your game ends, and with controls this dodgy you can't afford to waste your time collecting bonuses, just get to the finish already, oh wait that's right the controls are shit so you're having a hard time doing that as well. Marble Madness is not a great game but at the same time it's not a bad game, it just could have been so much better, Gyroscope 1 is a better game for instance, but this is a bad game. And that's why this is the only game on the archive to use the Marble Madness Construction Kit, because it was crap, and this game is proof of that.
