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Rollers
AKA: Ballers
Games where you are a sphere and you roll about.
Examples
(Bunch of new ones popping up. Probably due to beginner tutorials for doing ball-rolling stuff with Unity and Unreal Engine.)
- 1984 - Marble Madness
- 1990 - Jump'n Roll - Amiga game where you avoid obstacles in a pseudo-3-D
- 1994 - Tama: Adventurous Ball in Giddy Labyrinth
- 1997 - Armadillo Racing
- 1998 - Kula World - Grid-based movement.
- 2000 - Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble
- 200x - Tiltronica (unreleased) info.
- 2001 - Super Monkey Ball
- 2002 - Marble Blast
- 2003 - ボールの王子様1)
- 2004 - Ball Racer
- 2004 - Jump'n Roll - 3-D Crillion-ish game (without the bouncing).
- 2004 - Hamsterball - Marble Madness-like
- 2004 - Habitrail Hamster Ball - Licensed Monkey Ball clone
- 2007 - Namco Museum Remix - Hub world thing and some of the game modes (Galaga [indirect], Pac'n Roll, Pac Motos, …) have different kinds of rolling.
- 2008 - vertigo|Vertigo / Spinout
- 2008 - The Incredible Maze
- 20092) - Super Gerball
- 2009 - Equilibrio - 2-D, WiiWare, Roller meet Cameltry.
- 2010 - Puzle Dimension get
- 2010 - Hamsterball - Unsure of the relationship between this and the 2004 game wit hthe same name. Different developers, same logo. This one plays like Monkey Ball though.
- 2011 - Jump N Roll - Sidescroller for phones info
- 2013? - Ballenger video
- 2015 - Marble Muse
- 2015 - JamG
- 2015 - Dexterity Ball 3D
- 2015 - Puzzle Ball
- 2016 - Groovy
- 2016 - Mazement
- 2016 - Road to Ballhalla
- 2016 - Tiltagon
- 2016 - Spherical Constitution get
- 2016 - Super Impossible Road
- 2016 - Marble Void get
- 2016 - Steamroll
- 2021 - Steamroll: Rustless Edition
- 2017 - Finnish Roller get
- 2017 - Winexy get
- 2017 - Steel Punk Ball
- 2017 - Totally Unbalanced
- 2017 - Marble Skies
- 2017 - Celestial Hacker Girl Jessica get
- 2017 - Maso Marble get
- 2017 - Marble Masters: The Pit get - physics-puzzley, combatty?
- 2017 - Polyball get
- 2018 - Galaxy Ball get
- 2018 - Marble it Up
- 2018 - Roboball get
- 2018 - Marble Race get
- 2018 - Poly and the Marble Maze get
- 2018 - Mindball Play get
- 2019 - Marble Odyssey get
- 2019 - Marble Combat get - Multiplayer combat thing.
- 2019 - Marble Marcher get - Fractal boards.
- 2020 - Paperball get
- 2020 - Skully get
- 2020 - Snow Game get
- 2021 - Destruction Rocks get - Multiplayer.
- 202x - Rollerghoaster early demo
get dates (open-source):
- Balance
Minigames
Rollers within other games.
- 2007 - Wii Fit series.
- 2011 - uDraw Studio: Instant Artist has two roller minigames that use the tilt function of the Wii. One where you navigate a maze, and one where you roll a ball to make drawings.
- 2017 - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has some motion controlled ones in a couple of shrines.
No-control
Ones where you don't directly control the marbles, but usually design the courses (runs) for them to travel through. Haven't tried any of these Marble Racing racing games, but like the idea.
- 2016 - Collide-a-Ball - There's a sequel on the Nintendo Switch.
- 2017 - Marble Run get
- 2018 - Marbles on Steam get
- 2021 - Hamster All-Stars get
- 2021 - Marble World get
See Also
Real-life Marble Racing
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