It is a clone of Loose the marbles that comes with the PLUS! package of Windows98. I found the original quite fun and so I sat down and coded it in STOS. It works and gives scores. And that is about it.
It works on STfm/STe/f030 and probably TT just be sure to set the resolution to ST low before running. Since it is STOS it will not be gentle to your falcon after you quit, so you better reboot.
Game idea:
To line up three or more marbles of the same color in the middle row and thereby make then explode. More marbles drops to the board all the time and the goal is the keep the board from getting full for as long as possible.
Actually, the name of the game in question was Lose Your Marbles. Apart from that everything is correct :)
Marbles has that quality I like very much in a game and that somehow Swedish game designers seem to know better than others, the combination of simplicity and elegance in presentation. It does not even have a title screen (which, in this case, might be seen as a fault, since it is a real-time game and simply starts whether you are ready or not), let alone any fancy stuff, but its appearance quite definitely has merit. You like to look at it when you play it.
