Mario Paint (SNES)

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Description

Mario Paint is an educational game that allows anyone to create simple pictures, paint over black and white pictures, or free draw their own using the specially developed SNES Mouse. The player can also create their own piece of music using a selection of notes and themes, create greeting cards and animations, or play a game of "Gnat Attack", where they use the mouse to control a swatter to swat flies.

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Alternate Titles

• "マリオペイント" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Console Generation Exclusive: SNES
• Mario educational games
• Mario games

User Reviews

The Greatest Non-Game SNES Game Ever.

Guy Chapman (1997)

Critic Reviews

Just Games Retro	Aug 02, 2018		90
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)	Oct, 1992	33 out of 40	82
N-Force	Oct, 1992	82 out of 100	82
1UP!	Mar 16, 2002	80 out of 100	80
Retro Game Reviews	Mar 16, 2017		80
GameCola.net	May, 2004	7.8 out of 10	78
Power Unlimited	Jul, 1993	7 out of 10	70
Jeuxvideo.com	Jul 30, 2009	14 out of 20	70
Nintendo Land	2003	69 out of 100	69
Defunct Games	Jan 06, 2014	C	50

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Trivia

Extras

The Nintendo Mouse and hard plastic mousepad were included with most copies of this game.

Homestar Runner

Mario Paint was the medium of choice for the very first Homestar Runner cartoons, long before Flash. A primitive Mario Paint made introduction video can be found in the museum of the site.

References to the game

One of the sound staff from Mario Paint, Hirokazu Tanaka, later went on to work on Earthbound. You can hear some sound effects and musical instruments used in both games.

Awards

• Electronic Gaming Monthly
  • October 1992 (Issue 39) - Game of the Month

Information also contributed by Andrew Fraticelli.

Related Web Sites

• Mario Paint Composer (A clone of Mario Paint's music composition software has been made for Windows and OSX and is distributed for free by developers unFun Games.)