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24 Aug 2013 21:22 #1
I found this to be ironic. Ads of MB on the forums.

Also that means people could still buy marble blaster on disk if they buy it from amazon. Just saying.

www.amazon.com/Marble-Blast-Pc/dp....ble+Blast+g old

oh and yeah eGames (the official disk maker of MB) is still selling it as shown on this link.

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24 Aug 2013 21:27 #2
Reminds me of the time I found a Marble Blast (not gold) disk in one of those claw-esque machines at a movie theater. It's probably still there.

Still, very ironic.

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24 Aug 2013 21:49 #3
Either that or it's the new ads for people code they've been making. Let's say you love cats and that's all you do on the computer. Your advertisements are going to be all about cats. This is why people who complain about how they get ads for inappropriate things get embarrassed when people work it out with logic...

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24 Aug 2013 23:06 #4
I think there is a custom ABP filter you can ad, and/or a Google pref that will prevent sites from tracking you.

Question is, is it for PC or Mac?

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24 Aug 2013 23:09 #5
the disk is PC iirc, but who cares mac can buy it from the mac game store

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25 Aug 2013 15:12 #6
WHAT?!?! I didn't know a disc for MB even existed! And its actually is called Marble Blaster?

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25 Aug 2013 15:27 #7
Aug 25, 2013, 8:12am, jkk39 wrote:WHAT?!?! I didn't know a disc for MB even existed! And its actually is called Marble Blaster? Yes, Sonic Warrior made a video about it. In Marble Blaster, some advanced levels we know today didn't exist. The last one was Survival of the Fittest.

Oh. One solution left to avoid this stuff:

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25 Aug 2013 15:46 #8
All but this one have it, because it is as old as Marble Blaster itself, and everything is horribly out of date. But I just disable plugins and 3rd party cookies. Saves my computer from melting. I can always enable them if I need to. And I don't need flash or java, anyway.

And Marbleblast Gold, if I recall, just added gold times and a few dozen more levels. And maybe a few bugfixes.

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25 Aug 2013 17:02 #9
Aug 25, 2013, 8:27am, ralphiboy27 wrote:
Aug 25, 2013, 8:12am, jkk39 wrote:WHAT?!?! I didn't know a disc for MB even existed! And its actually is called Marble Blaster? Yes, Sonic Warrior made a video about it. In Marble Blaster, some advanced levels we know today didn't exist. The last one was Survival of the Fittest.

Oh. One solution left to avoid this stuff:

I know what Marble Blaster is, its how I found out about the game. It was pre-installed on my dads computer. It was named MarbleBlast and not Marble Blaster. I thought Marble Blaster was a name people in the community gave it to set it apart from MBG better. So i didnt know it was actually called Marble Blaster and I didnt know it was ever available on disc.

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25 Aug 2013 17:20 #10
Marble Blaster and Marble Blast are the same exact thing afaik. Just have 2 different box'd names. Blaster was only sold on disc though, but Marble Blast was both on disc and on GG iirc.

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25 Aug 2013 19:28 #11
To fulfill my OCPD, the last level was actually Dive!. It had a time limit and no spawn text. So there is a slight difference. Also, no gold times. It also did not have shadowed text in its Torque. The gold levels make it add up to 100 (24+24+52).

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25 Aug 2013 21:16 #12
fyi, a disk is the software kind, and a disc is the hardware kind.
But actually it doesn't matter at all. I use disc when specifically referring to CDs. So Marble Blaster would be a disc.

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25 Aug 2013 21:31 #13
Other way around. Compact disc vs for example hard disk drive

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25 Aug 2013 22:37 #14
What I meant
It's confusing 'cause both things are pieces of hardware with software on them…

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26 Aug 2013 02:10 #15
I remember it because software (disc) and hardware (disk) have a distinguishing letter. disc sounds softer because of the commonly used c that doesn't take the k sound often, instead taking s. k on the other hand, cannot be used as an s.

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26 Aug 2013 02:33 #16
The method I use is, CD starts with 'c', so a CD is a disc.

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27 Aug 2013 17:17 #17
I just remember that CD is an acronym for Compact Disc, so I can tell when it isn't a CD.

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27 Aug 2013 17:41 #18
Whatever... it's getting confusing...

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27 Aug 2013 17:48 #19
I... actually HAVE the disk.

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27 Aug 2013 18:05 #20
Me too, Threefingers - I mean Threefolder.

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27 Aug 2013 20:42 #21
Note: that disc (disk?) envelope is different than that of the image Jeff posted.

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27 Aug 2013 21:29 #22
I'm surprised, the Blaster is overpriced by $10 and that's only comparing it to Gold. I remember getting my Blaster for $6 (or was it $10?)

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28 Aug 2013 01:09 #23
Aug 27, 2013, 10:48am, threefolder99 wrote:
Someone should make this level

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28 Aug 2013 01:36 #24
That's Gauntlet, a part of Upward Spiral or Whirl, and a level name in Beginner I can't remember.

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28 Aug 2013 01:38 #25
@maingi Pitfalls.

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28 Aug 2013 02:20 #26
Sure but nobody has ever put the interiors together that way before

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28 Aug 2013 02:59 #27
I will!

edit: Also that's gotta be Upward Spiral, Whirl was never in Blaster.

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