Popular Nintendo Character Brings New Life
to Classic Games in Interplay's Mario's Game Gallery
Irvine, California, April 14, 1995-- Interplay Productions gave new
life to some old favorites with today's release of Mario's
Game Gallery, the company's latest edutainment title to hit
the retail market. Headlining the game is the well-known and highly-recognized
Nintendo character, Mario. Players of all ages will enjoy such
childhood favorites as Checkers, Backgammon, Go Fish, Yacht and
Dominoes in beautifully detailed 256-color graphics. The title
is now available on a variety of platforms including IBM and 100%
compatibles for DOS, Windows and CD-ROM. It will also be available
for Mac users on floppy and CD-ROM from MacPlay, the Macintosh
division of Interplay.
Mario's Game Gallery includes five of the world's most
popular games on a new interactive medium. Mario comes to life
in animated sequences -- laughing, playing jokes and encouraging
players to improve their skills -- in his gallery of fun and games.
Children will be enthralled for hours with the variety of options
available in Mario's Game Gallery, ultimately improving
their game-playing abilities.
"Mario's Game Gallery is more of a playmate than a
software program," said Jerry Luttrell, marketing manager
for Interplay. "With the product's easy-to-use interface,
fun graphics and amusing animation, in addition to its entertaining
content, children will spend hours in this self-contained world
of fun and games".
Interplay used state-of-the-art voice technology to bring the
perennial Nintendo character to life with phonetic mouth movements.
The original voice of Mario will encourage the player with complements
and entertain them with amusing anecdotes and knock-knock jokes.
Developed by Presage, each game features well-known Nintendo characters
from the world of Mario. Everyone's favorite card game, Go Fish,
has a new twist with Mario and a full 52-card deck featuring the
Princess, Luigi, the Little Toadies, Goombas, Rip Van Fishies,
Bob-Bombs, and Big-Boos, among other memorable friends. Koopa
and Yoshi delight and entertain players while they teach kids
the strategic game of Backgammon in a none-too-serious environment.
In the always enjoyable game of Checkers, players go up against
either Yoshi or Koopa and watch in wonder as their pawns waddle
across the checkerboard and gobble up their opponents. In Yacht,
it's the luck of the roll that will determine who will be the
victor as the child goes head-to-head with Mario. Dominoes will
give children a chance to face off against Mario over an energetic
and fun-filled game of wits.
Mario's Game Gallery is available now for IBM and 100%
compatibles, running DOS 5.0 or higher or Windows 3.1, on floppy
or CD-ROM. IBM system requirements include a 386SX/33 or faster
with 7mb of hard disk space. The Windows version requires 4mbRAM
and the DOS version requires 2mb RAM; both require a VGA color
monitor. The Sound Blaster series and all 100% compatible sound
boards are supported.
Mario's Game Gallery is the latest title released by Interplay's
veteran producer, Thomas R. Decker. Decker's earlier achievements
include the best-selling Mario Teaches Typing, Star Reach,
and Bridge With Omar Sharif, to name just a few. Decker
is currently working on the soon to be released Kingdom: The
Far Reaches and Bridge Deluxe II With Omar Sharif. Gamers
can look for these titles in the summer of '95.
Mario, Luigi, The Princess, Yoshi and Koopa
are trademarks of Nintendo of America, Inc.
Contributed by skl (1163) on Feb 22, 2004.
