Marble Madness [SEP] designer
Marble Madness
Marble Madness is an arcade video game designed by Mark Cerny, and published by Atari Games in 1984. It is a platform game in which the player must guide an onscreen marble through six courses, populated with obstacles and enemies, within a time limit. The player controls the marble by using a trackball. "Marble Madness" is known for using innovative game technologies. It was Atari's first to use the Atari System 1 hardware and to be programmed in the C programming language. The game was also
Knack" which he developed for the console. On September 21, 2013 Cerny was revealed to have been the lead architect of PlayStation Vita. In 2014, he hosted a career retrospective for former Sega game designer Yu Suzuki at the Game Developers Conference; he also hosted a "Shenmue" postmortem with Suzuki, and discussed "Shenmue III" with him.
Significant games.
- "Major Havoc" (1983, arcade) — Programmer, designer
- "Marble Madness" (1984, arcade) — Programmer