Marshie's Malloween Mix-Up

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This Halloween game was released at the same time as Malloween Commercial, and a week prior to 3 Times Halloween Funjob. It's similar to the game Ikaruga for the arcade, Dreamcast and GameCube in that you must master two different "colors" (in this case black and orange). Also like Ikaruga, you can collect marshmallows of the same color as your current aura, but watch out for ones that don't match!

Date: October 20, 2003

Page Title: More Marshie for the Kids!

Contents 1 How Do I Do It? (Instructions) 2 Fun Facts 2.1 Trivia 2.2 Remarks 2.3 Glitches 2.4 Real-World References 3 External Links

How Do I Do It? (Instructions)

When Marshie looks like (Marshie icon with orange circle), collect (orange marshmallow icon) and press (SPACE bar) to bomb them into (orange bag icon). If Marshie looks like (Marshie icon with black circle), collect (black marshmallow icon) and press (SPACE bar) to bomb them into (black bag icon). Press (A key) to switch between (Marshie icon with orange circle) and (Marshie icon with black circle). If Marshie looks like (Marshie icon with black circle) and collects (orange marshmallow icon), he loses energy (and vice versa). Press (P key) to pause the game. (Can icon) increases speed. (Bag of malloweens icon) refills your bombs. (Brown bag icon) increases your capacity. Do it!

Fun Facts

Trivia

• This game was originally only linked to from the What's New button; when it fell off that, it became a secret page, not accessible by any other page on the website (though it can now be reached from the Games menu).
• This is the only game on the New Games Page not made by Videlectrix.
• On the New Games Page it is referred to as "Marshie Ween".

Remarks

• Instead of "Loading," it says "lourding." This may be a reference to the Heavy Lourde.

Glitches

• After the first level, the level counter in the corner displays the previous level, rather than the current level.
• If you press caps lock, the A key will no longer work, as it was only for lowercase.
• If you pause the game while a bag is on-screen the bag will show but nothing else will.
• You can still change your color on the pause screen, so if there are an orange and a black (or vice versa) next to each other you can collect the first one then pause, press a, then resume and get the other one.
• If you get a high enough hit accuracy during the game, upon finishing it may record your hit percentage as over 100%.

Real-World References

• The creepy music at the beginning is from Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor", though it is in the wrong key.
• Marshie's health bar, the sound he makes when he dies, and the pattern of circles left behind are from the Mega Man games.
• The sound made when you pause is used in a lot of the NES games made by Konami, examples being Bayou Billy, Blades of Steel, and Contra.
• The instructions look like the picture stories in the kids magazine Highlights for Children.

External Links

• Play the Game
• Play the Game (Flash file)