Mario Paint
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| Developer(s) | Intelligent Systems {{#if:{{{publisher|}}}|<tr><th style="background-color: #ccccff;">Publisher(s)<td>{{{publisher|}}} |
| Release date(s) | 1992 |
| Genre(s) | Creativity |
| Mode(s) | Single player {{#if:{{{ratings|}}}|<tr><th style="background-color: #ccccff;">Rating(s)<td>{{{ratings|}}} |
| Platform(s) | SNES {{#if:{{{media|}}}|<tr><th style="background-color: #ccccff;">Media<td>{{{media|}}} |
Mario Paint is a productivity title created by Nintendo for use with the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and was released in 1992 along with the SNES mouse peripheral device. Mario Paint is the most well-known game to make use of the SNES mouse technology.
The game contains a number of mini-games, one of which is a music generator similar to FL Studio (formerly known as fruityloops), 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:
Image:Mario Paint.png Not only could the user paint and draw using tools in way similar to other computer painting programs (such as MS 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.
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.
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.
Mario Paint was used in the earliest Homestar Runner [1] 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.
Mario Paint makes a "cameo" appearance in WarioWare: Touched!, allowing the player to use the stylus to color various characters in the game. In addition, the fly-swatting mini-game makes an appearance in the original WarioWare game for Game Boy Advance. There are reports that the game is being remade for the Revolution and the Nintendo DS.[2]