My grandmother had a very similar game to this, except it was multi-player. The game was shaped like a cross, with different "stations" on each end, so four people could play at once. Each station was different, focusing on a different mechanism, some of which are nearly identical to this game. Instead of a single ball, each player had a handful of balls and you would compete to successfully navigate the most balls through your station to the center of the board, where there was a small basin.<p>From what I remember, one was station was just like the "lilypad" section, where you had to "hop" the ball from one launcher to another. Another was like the wave see-saw portion at the start of this game. A different one I don't see here was sort of like a slanted pinball field, where you had to shoot the ball through a sequence of launchers until the final one shot it into the hole to the center. I can't recall the fourth one right now.<p>One additional hitch is that the was a lid for the center receptacle that had sliding doors that opened and closed on a wind-up timer (sort of like how a mini-golf windmill periodically blocks its tunnel). So if you timed it wrong, your ball would hit the door and bounce back, possibly to the very start.<p>I don't remember the name, and I'm not seeing it mentioned in any articles about this game. Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?<p>EDIT: Madcap Marathon is the name of the game, I was able to find on BoardGameGeek [0]. Here's a vintage TV ad from 1981. [1]<p>0: <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/23061/madcap-marathon" rel="nofollow">https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/23061/madcap-marathon</a><p>1: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYoErTKntrU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYoErTKntrU</a>