Mario is a 1990 puzzle video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom, and Game Boy. The soundtrack was composed by Hirokazu Tanaka. It is a falling block puzzle game, where the player's objective is to destroy the viruses populating the on-screen playing...
Mario is a 1990 puzzle video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom, and Game Boy. The soundtrack was composed by Hirokazu Tanaka. It is a falling block puzzle game, where the player's objective is to destroy the viruses populating the on-screen playing field by using colored vitamin capsules that are automatically tossed into the field by Dr. The player progresses through the game by eliminating all the viruses on the screen in each level. Dr. Mario is a falling block tile-matching video game.Mario assumes the role of a doctor, tossing two-colored medical capsules into a medicine bottle representing the playing field. A game over occurs if capsules fill the playing field in a way that obstructs the bottle's narrow neck. After each 5th level is completed on Medium or High difficulty, up to level 20, a cutscene shows the virus trio sitting on a tree as music plays and an object flies across the screen. The options screen configures the starting level, game speed, and music. The player chooses a starting level between 0 and 20 that determines the number of viruses to clear, and one of three speeds of the falling capsules. The player's score is based on the elimination of viruses and the chosen game speed, with bonus points for clearing more than 1 in a single line. Dr. Mario was produced by Gunpei Yokoi, creator of the Game Boy and Game & Watch handheld systems. Its music was composed by Hirokazu Tanaka, and has been re-used and arranged such as in the Super Smash Bros. series. Dr.