even more significant imo (timmy menard also mentions) it was the first game to use a yamaha fm synth chip... eventually such chips were used in many arcade games beyond Atari even, PCs, then in Sega consoles. very distinct sound! my favorite of that time, too. beats nintendo
Summer 198?. @7/11 on La Cienega just south of Pico. I lay my brick sized walkman on the control console of the cabinet game with the mic facing the speakers, inserted quarter, pressed the record button and recorded this music while playing. I listened to that cassette for weeks after.
i wonder how this game is so unknown isnt this the first game that really has a soundtrack that its worth calling so? maybe its because it was made during the video game crash? earlier games only had some short beepy jingles. this is also the first game that uses fm synth.
Such a high quality upload for 2009. The bass kicks in amazingly! For the first game to ever make use of an FM chip, this is freaking amazing, and by western developers, no less! Brad Fuller will truly be missed....
idk why it is this way but those older uploads have consistently better mixing in my opinion. at least 90% of the time. most of the newer stuff, even when professionally mixed, makes very poor use of youtube's stereo/dynamic range.
Probably the most avant garde game ever. From its complex music and graphics this is a forgotten gem that made people rethink what gaming is. It’s pretty much the Sgt pepper of arcade games. Atari really changed the face of gaming forever.
Back in the days I played this game 80% for the musical experience, 20% for the actual gameplay. I remember I felt lika a musician, performing for the other kids who watched me play...
I used to always have trouble in the Intermediate race. That's how I came to love the stage music... To me, 4:24-4:41 was the game's way of saying "Time for this game to kick your ass!". Brings me way back...
Beginners Race represents 95% of my experience with this game cause I suck at it lol but I love the entire soundtrack! Practice and Aerial are relaxing, Intermediate is spooky and the Silly one is kinda jazzy!
I played this in the arcade, and the booming surround sound really helps with the experience. I couldn't go back to the NES version after using the trackball in the arcade.
I've personally always been the most endeared by the Practice Race song, because there's something so relaxing and centering about its abstract and somber nature.
Actually, the real composers for the original Arcade version are Brad Fuller & Hal Canon. David Wise made the chiptune arrangement for the NES console. The arcade version of the soundtrack is revolutionary, for that it's the first video game ever to use stereo sound.
Wow, thanks for posting this! I fell in love with this game in the early 80's when I was about 13, then I moved to another part of the country and couldn't find it anywhere. I never forgot that awesome Beginner Race melody though, or that cool finish line 'Boopity-boopity-boo!' noise.
@BeigeNinja The NES probably had the best music of the home versions, unless i'm missing a version. Compare the NES with the amiga or genesis versions.
I spent so much money on this game when it appeared in thr Silver Strike arcade in Birkenhead when I was a kid.....I've just been watching frank tedesco and if I'm ever on omegle (doubtful I'm 53) I'd get him to play this for me. Honestly though the version in my head was a little different than the original after hearing it nearly 40 years later
10:18 I always liked the guitar solo it played when you entered your initials. I can play keyboard by ear, and I recall replicating the solo on my Casio keyboard that had an overdrive guitar sound like that. Of course, the keyboard I use now has a pitch bender which you need to really do it right. The guitar solo has sliding notes in it, and only a keyboard that has a pitch bender wheel can do it justice, aside from a real guitar, which I don't play.
I just adore FM music. These Atari System 1 games sounded superb! Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom came the year after this and it sounds simply beautiful.
Huh, I dunno... they pretty much sound like the same songs to me, it's just that I like the instruments used in the NES track better. David Wise is pretty awesome though, and I normally don't like western game music, but a lot of the exceptions seem to come from him.
Oh noes!!! The A500 don't have the ground shattering spine-vibrating bass that the actual arcade had. I love AMinga 500 music in every way, but in this case you cane't compete.
Wow, I remember this music from my arcade days in the 80's! I used to love this game and its music. I think "Beginner Race" was my favorite music with that crazy bass line! The synth parts were great! "Intermediate Race" is great, too, but I never scored high enough beyond intermediate to hear the other movements of the musical score, so they're "new" to me hearing them here (love "Silly Race")! Thanks for sharing.
I agree. I think the problem is that not alot of people make it that far, and if they remember one theme from Marble Madness, it's level 2. I have this machine in my basement and it's a hit at parties.
This is the sound track of my youth. I spent a small fortune to win all 6 levels. Best video game ever and the only video game where the music/sound effects equal and enhance the game. Paul A. Rossi, Esq.
I prefer the way the music sounds in the NES version, but that's just me. I never liked most Genesis games' music either, aside from certain exceptions.
I came here because I liked the music in one of the Penny Arcade Extra Credit episodes. Turns out, a band has done a full band remix of all these songs! I urge you to look up "Where Good Marbles Go to Die", it's pretty epic!
The highest I ever got to was level 4 (with it's beginning sabotage ramp). I remember the level 3 song stood out as my favorite, especially the end of it.
hey @Doommaster1994 if you're around still- where did you get this audio? ie an arcade board/pc version with soundcard that has a yamaha chip/one of the other ports/emulation? it sounds exactly like i remember the arcade machine sounding but it was soooo long ago I have no idea
The songs made for this game was originally composed on a Yamaha DX Piano. Not only that, this was the first game to use a Yamaha soundchip.
phenomenal!
According to Wikipedia, this was the first game in existence to feature stereo sound, amazing!
even more significant imo (timmy menard also mentions) it was the first game to use a yamaha fm synth chip... eventually such chips were used in many arcade games beyond Atari even, PCs, then in Sega consoles. very distinct sound! my favorite of that time, too. beats nintendo
It's stereo.
Kiptok And it was the very prominent YM2151 used in December 1984.
That chip produces beautiful sound, how come?
the music was awesome !!
Summer 198?. @7/11 on La Cienega just south of Pico. I lay my brick sized walkman on the control console of the cabinet game with the mic facing the speakers, inserted quarter, pressed the record button and recorded this music while playing.
I listened to that cassette for weeks after.
The golden days/
Fun fact! Mark Cerny, who was a designer on this game, is the lead architect on the PlayStation 4! ^_^
And 5! (And probably 6!)
What on earth? That's interesting.
did they make a new Marble Madness game for it in that same timeless abstract style? would be cool!
Beginner race is something from a different dimension
RIP Brad Fuller.. Thanks for making one of my favorite childhood game soundtracks.. Gone but not forgotten!
this has to be one of the first instances of ambient style music in arcade games, and it's pretty good too.
I still get Beginner Race in my head sometimes. ❤
i wonder how this game is so unknown isnt this the first game that really has a soundtrack that its worth calling so? maybe its because it was made during the video game crash? earlier games only had some short beepy jingles. this is also the first game that uses fm synth.
Marble Madness is actually very well known. And not all earlier games had insignificant music.
Such a high quality upload for 2009. The bass kicks in amazingly! For the first game to ever make use of an FM chip, this is freaking amazing, and by western developers, no less! Brad Fuller will truly be missed....
idk why it is this way but those older uploads have consistently better mixing in my opinion. at least 90% of the time. most of the newer stuff, even when professionally mixed, makes very poor use of youtube's stereo/dynamic range.
5:17 SEEEGAAAA !!!!
I imagine the part afterwards saying Nintendo.
5:23 AAAAAAAAAAAAAATAAAAAAAAAAARIIIIIIIIIIII
@@muhtesemsiyanur Amiga!!
No This Was Before Sonic
1984 To Be Exact.
My thoughts exactly 😂
Probably the most avant garde game ever. From its complex music and graphics this is a forgotten gem that made people rethink what gaming is. It’s pretty much the Sgt pepper of arcade games. Atari really changed the face of gaming forever.
EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG
In that case, let me begin deleting every fact from my brain, starting with the fact that "everything I know is wrong".
Is that a Firesign Theatre reference?
I always thought this game had a progressive rock feel to it! Almost early genesis
Rest in peace, Brad, we'll miss you, but your tunes are good. :)
damn straight
It's 2020 and the Marble Madness ost still s l a p s
The music from level 2 was always my favorite.
Back in the days I played this game 80% for the musical experience, 20% for the actual gameplay. I remember I felt lika a musician, performing for the other kids who watched me play...
R.I.P. Brad Fuller
I used to always have trouble in the Intermediate race. That's how I came to love the stage music... To me, 4:24-4:41 was the game's way of saying "Time for this game to kick your ass!". Brings me way back...
Absolute musical genius.. captures the abstractness of a game where the protagonist is a glass sphere.....
0:00
1:50
3:45
5:15
6:30
8:18
i wonder if dolph ziggler likes this game
this is what you call magic in a video game
The 1st song is my favorite. But all the songs are amazing.
For mobile viewers:
00:00 - Practice Race
01:50 - Beginner Race
03:45 - Intermediate Race
05:15 - Aerial Race
06:30 - Silly Race
08:18 - Ultimate Race
09:47 - High Score Screen
Love this music, takes me right back to the arcade in 1984 when I was 12 years old!
Beginners Race represents 95% of my experience with this game cause I suck at it lol but I love the entire soundtrack! Practice and Aerial are relaxing, Intermediate is spooky and the Silly one is kinda jazzy!
I played this in the arcade, and the booming surround sound really helps with the experience. I couldn't go back to the NES version after using the trackball in the arcade.
Below average soundtrack
9:54 is just loud af, wtf
I've personally always been the most endeared by the Practice Race song, because there's something so relaxing and centering about its abstract and somber nature.
Actually, the real composers for the original Arcade version are Brad Fuller & Hal Canon. David Wise made the chiptune arrangement for the NES console. The arcade version of the soundtrack is revolutionary, for that it's the first video game ever to use stereo sound.
Danke GameOne :D
1:50 my favorite part.
level 3 and level 4 is the scary music level and level 2 and 5 is too catchy also level 6 is too sci fi rock and level 1 is relaxing.
Wow, thanks for posting this! I fell in love with this game in the early 80's when I was about 13, then I moved to another part of the country and couldn't find it anywhere. I never forgot that awesome Beginner Race melody though, or that cool finish line 'Boopity-boopity-boo!' noise.
I found an arcade machine of this game today for the very first time. Needless to say, that yummy trackball got made love to. ;)
Ohhhhhh myyyyyyy
Some of these songs are pretty scary
Fantastic vg music.
@BeigeNinja The NES probably had the best music of the home versions, unless i'm missing a version. Compare the NES with the amiga or genesis versions.
I spent so much money on this game when it appeared in thr Silver Strike arcade in Birkenhead when I was a kid.....I've just been watching frank tedesco and if I'm ever on omegle (doubtful I'm 53) I'd get him to play this for me.
Honestly though the version in my head was a little different than the original after hearing it nearly 40 years later
I never made it far enough to hear the later part of this soundtrack!
Thanks for posting this! Also great to see the composer's names, credit well deserved.
I want to make a remake of the high score screen song. It's my favorite of them all, I wish it was longer
The instrumentation might be okayish, but the ambient genre is nice
Beginner race is catchy
I love the Silly Race song cause it keeps getting faster and faster. It becomes hilarious =D
i love the first level the (practise race) thanks for uploading the full version thats made my day :) absolute classic! bring these games back
I think practice Race and Beginners Race music are the 2 best ones
10:18 I always liked the guitar solo it played when you entered your initials. I can play keyboard by ear, and I recall replicating the solo on my Casio keyboard that had an overdrive guitar sound like that. Of course, the keyboard I use now has a pitch bender which you need to really do it right. The guitar solo has sliding notes in it, and only a keyboard that has a pitch bender wheel can do it justice, aside from a real guitar, which I don't play.
Niiiice
Why was this game so fucking difficult.
@twp1974 ya i still have it. i'll send to you in a private message
guys if you want to download the song let me know i have the link
It sounds better on the Amiga.
This game is frustratingly hard....
Atari system 1 chipset stereo sound -
The last song is actually the ending theme.
Good stuff. Check out Where Good Marbles Go To Die by Stemage, great tribute album featuring VGM greats of today such as Disasterpeace!
*HAMSTERBALL!!!!!!!!*
this is quite possibly the best music ever.
Said no one ever.
It was a different time indeed.
I do love this music and it might just be one of my favorite arcade soundtracks out there.
@@konajinx Lizard said so.
Yeah, I'm going back and saying 12 year ago me was right. Come back later for more!
I just adore FM music. These Atari System 1 games sounded superb! Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom came the year after this and it sounds simply beautiful.
Yes awesome! I loved this game. Brings back good memories
considering this was 1984, it's amazing considering what would have been involved in the making of this game.
i beat this game its friggen hard but i did....
Something about the high score screen music that reminds me of Jean-Michel Jarré's _Oxygene._
Nope its sound worthy of the Genesis. However I am disappointed of the Genesis version and how it was converted. :(
The Japanese Mega Drive/Genesis version sounds near arcade perfect.
Midway arcade collection just became free on xbl, found this game and it's fucking sick
Music to put Chenobyl footage to.
Disturbingly fasinating.
First course is so Eno
kinda sadly... i like the nes music better
Huh, I dunno... they pretty much sound like the same songs to me, it's just that I like the instruments used in the NES track better. David Wise is pretty awesome though, and I normally don't like western game music, but a lot of the exceptions seem to come from him.
Dave Wise also did the NES conversion for Pinbot, which IMO also sounds better than the (already wonderful) arcade original
Oh noes!!! The A500 don't have the ground shattering spine-vibrating bass that the actual arcade had. I love AMinga 500 music in every way, but in this case you cane't compete.
Thanks very much for posting this video. Even though I haven't played the arcade game in almost 25 years, I still remember the music so well.
Wow, I remember this music from my arcade days in the 80's! I used to love this game and its music. I think "Beginner Race" was my favorite music with that crazy bass line! The synth parts were great! "Intermediate Race" is great, too, but I never scored high enough beyond intermediate to hear the other movements of the musical score, so they're "new" to me hearing them here (love "Silly Race")! Thanks for sharing.
I agree. I think the problem is that not alot of people make it that far, and if they remember one theme from Marble Madness, it's level 2.
I have this machine in my basement and it's a hit at parties.
This is the sound track of my youth. I spent a small fortune to win all 6 levels. Best video game ever and the only video game where the music/sound effects equal and enhance the game.
Paul A. Rossi, Esq.
I prefer the way the music sounds in the NES version, but that's just me. I never liked most Genesis games' music either, aside from certain exceptions.
I came here because I liked the music in one of the Penny Arcade Extra Credit episodes. Turns out, a band has done a full band remix of all these songs! I urge you to look up "Where Good Marbles Go to Die", it's pretty epic!
Just here to hear this at 1:50
Thank You! 🎶😍🎶
music of my dreams
@sargennipple I loved this game when my dad use to sell the old Amiga 500 I would beat this game everyday the music rocks do you still have the Link?
The highest I ever got to was level 4 (with it's beginning sabotage ramp). I remember the level 3 song stood out as my favorite, especially the end of it.
That's awesome! Thanks for posting this.
You wouldn't happen to be able to do "Midnight Resistance (Arcade) Music" would you?
Finally I found the arcade version of the songs, I didn't even know there were other versions of this game until I tried searching on youtube
I will search for this arcade. I love the NES version, would love to try it with a trackball. Really nice Stereo music!
This is a masterpiece of electronic music. Beautiful!
The Amiga version is so close to the arcade version! Wow!
I don't why but the music is actually creepy! And I do not play today's games that often as old games!
1:50 SO IT BEGINS
Never realised the level 1 music was so lovely... it only ever played for about 16 seconds on my PC!
The Genesis version had better sounding music.
The JPN version sounded completely identical to the original, but the USA version sounded awful.
Oh. I just thought since he's credited he worked as a composer also. (Sorry, I skimmed Wiki).
Holy shit I feel like I just defeated the world listening to the hi score screen at 9:47
5:16 SEGA
Oh yes, level 2 still triggers adrenaline! And at your next party invite me!!!
very nice
i use to play this at goldmine arcade in fairfelid cal back in 1984
thanks,
hey @Doommaster1994 if you're around still- where did you get this audio? ie an arcade board/pc version with soundcard that has a yamaha chip/one of the other ports/emulation?
it sounds exactly like i remember the arcade machine sounding but it was soooo long ago I have no idea
I used to have the PC version of Midway Arcade Treasures. All of the sounds used in the games can be found on the game's disc.