Mario Paint

$10.99

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Item Description

Mario Paint is the rare Super Nintendo cartridge with no goal at all, and that is exactly why people still talk about it. Nintendo R&D1 built a creative studio instead of a game: a canvas, a music staff and an animation reel, all driven by the SNES Mouse, and in 1992 it turned the console into something closer to a home art kit.

The art tools are wonderfully tactile. Brushes, fill patterns and a drawer full of Mario-themed stamps sit along the edges of the screen, and a stamp editor lets you design your own pixel by pixel. You can color in ready-made line drawings, sketch something from scratch or build a short frame-by-frame animation and watch it loop. Every mistake gets erased by Undodog, the cheerful little undo mascot who later turned up again in Super Mario Maker.

The music composer is where Mario Paint built its lasting legend. Notes are tiny icons, Mario heads, mushrooms and stars alongside barking dogs and meowing cats, and each plays its own sound as the tune scrolls across the staff. Its limits make every song a puzzle, and fans have spent decades using it, and fan-made recreations of it, to cover everything from classical pieces to entire game soundtracks online.

Add Gnat Attack, a fly-swatting arcade game where your cursor becomes a swatter, plus a title screen full of hidden reactions to click, and Mario Paint becomes a playful little time capsule of early-90s Nintendo. The game is designed around the SNES Mouse, so plan your setup accordingly, and then let the original cartridge show you how inventive the Super Nintendo could be when nobody was keeping score.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1992
Publisher
Nintendo
Developer
Nintendo R&D1
Players
Single player
About the game

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.

Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.
Watch gameplayMario Paint on Super Nintendo
Video: Mario Paint

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