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Mario Paint is a video game created by Nintendo for use with the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and was released on August 1, 1992Nintendo.com *. Retrieved May 17, 2006. along with the SNES Mouse peripheral device. Mario Paint is the most well-known game to make use of the SNES mouse technology.
Gameplay
The game contains a number of mini-games, one of which is a music generator similar to a piano roll, in which the player places icons representing sounds onto a staff. Other activities include a fly-swatting game also controlled by the mouse.
In addition, standard features consist of:
Not only could the user paint and draw using tools in way similar to other computer painting programs (such as Microsoft Paint), but pre-made pictures could be inserted with the stamp tool. Stamps of everyday objects such as the Sun and fruit were provided by default, and users could even make custom stamps pixel-by-pixel. Besides just creating static pictures, a user could also make simple looping animations which could then be set to music created in the music generator.
Animations of pictures painted by the user could then be viewed on a television screen.
The game came packaged in a larger than normal box, which along with the game cartridge, contained both the mouse and the plastic mouse pad.
Mario Paint contains a game-within-a-game, known as "Gnat Attack." It is a fast-paced action game where the player controls a hand holding a flyswatter, which must swat all the flying insects on the screen in a limited amount of time. There are several rounds, followed by a boss. The game loops endlessly.
Reception
Nintendo Power magazine even held contests centered on the creativity exhibited by Mario Paint users, and received a healthy amount of individual submissions from kids and adults alike.
Legacy
Mario Paint was used in the earliest Homestar Runnerhomestarrunner.com *. Retrieved May 17, 2006. cartoon, as well as the more recent Strong Bad is a Bad Guy cartoon. The fly-swatting game was also regularly contested on the children's game show A*mazing.
Sequels
Mario Paint makes a cameo appearance in Touched! as "Wario Paint," allowing the player to use the stylus to color various characters in the game. Also, you can listen to the Mario Paint Song with the toy "Turntable" in the "Toy Room". The fly-swatting game makes an additional appearance in the preceding game, Inc.: Mega Microgame$" target="_blank" >*.
Although unreleased to the United States, Mario Paint's sequels came out in Japan for the Nintendo 64DD. The series was called Mario Artist. It also came with a mouse for the N64. 3D polygonal models could be created, as well as painting.
Other Appearences
In Animal Crossing, a hidden song called K.K. Song is from Mario Paint.
In Mario Mix, the song Up, Down, Left, Right came from Mario Paint.
In Yoshi's Story and Link's Awakening there are certain areas in each in which if you wait for that area's music to loop 8 times you can hear a music clip from Mario Paint.
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1992 computer and video games | Educational computer and video games | Intelligent Systems games | Mario Bros. games | Super NES games
"Mario Paint"