Mario's Super Picross
{{Short description|1995 video game}}
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{{Infobox video game
| title = Mario's Super Picross
| image = Mario's Super Picross.jpg
| developer = {{ubl|Ape|Jupiter}}
| publisher = Nintendo
| director = Tsunekazu Ishihara
| producer = Takeshi Kawaguchi
| designer = Agura Tanaka
| composer = Toshiyuki Ueno
| released = {{vgrelease|JP|September 14, 1995|NA|September 23, 2020 (Part of Nintendo Classics)}}
| platform = Super Famicom
| genre = Puzzle
| series = Mario's Picross
| modes = Single player
}}
{{nihongo foot|Mario's Super Picross|マリオのスーパーピクロス|Mario no Sūpā Pikurosu|lead=yes|group=lower-alpha}} is a Super Famicom sequel to Mario's Picross. The game is compatible with the Super Famicom Mouse. It is developed by Jupiter and Ape and published by Nintendo.
After the failure of Mario's Picross in North America, Nintendo decided not to release this game in that region. The game was made available for download on the Wii's Virtual Console service on December 19, 2006, in Japan and later in PAL regions on September 14, 2007, the 12th anniversary of the game's original Japanese release - marking the first Western release of the game, which has been left nontranslated with original Japanese text intact.[http://kotaku.com/gaming/too-good-to-be-true/nintendo-begins-hanabi-festival-for-pal-virtual-consoles-299786.php Too Good To Be True: Nintendo Begins "Hanabi Festival" For PAL Virtual Consoles] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028095031/http://kotaku.com/gaming/too-good-to-be-true/nintendo-begins-hanabi-festival-for-pal-virtual-consoles-299786.php |date=2007-10-28}} This game was re-released for download on the Wii U's Virtual Console service in both Japan and the PAL regions on April 27, 2013. It was made available worldwide on the Nintendo Classics service in September 2020.{{cite web|url=https://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/detail/2020/new-classic-games-added-for-nintendo-switch-online-members/|title=New classic games added for Nintendo Switch Online members|work=Nintendo|date=2020-09-24|access-date=2020-10-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024002131/https://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/detail/2020/new-classic-games-added-for-nintendo-switch-online-members/|archive-date=2020-10-24|url-status=live}}
Gameplay
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Gameplay remains the same as in Mario's Picross, where the player must decipher the picture in each level, progressing to harder and harder puzzles. After completing the first level the player may also play "as" Wario, who presents a different challenge due to changes in the gameplay.
Each game is played against the clock. Opposing the picross tradition of black and white squares, the puzzles are set in stone and are picked out by Mario with a hammer and chisel. When the player solves a puzzle correctly, the black-and-white representation becomes colored and animated, and the game shows the player the title of the puzzle. When the player finishes a level, Mario will congratulate them on their progress and either bow (in the first and last levels) or give a thumbs up (in all other levels).
The player must work through levels in order to get access to harder levels, with more rows and columns. In Mario's puzzles, if the player marks an incorrect cell, they receive a time penalty. The amount of time lost doubles for every mistake (one minute, two minutes, four, and finally eight). In Wario's puzzles, the time counts up from zero, and the player is not penalized for marking an incorrect cell, but the player will not be notified if they make a mistake.
Reception
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{{Video game reviews
| NLife = {{rating|9|10}}{{cite web |author1=Marcel van Duyn |title=Mario's Super Picross (SNES) |url=https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/vc/marios_super_picross_snes |website=Nintendo Life |publisher=Gamer Network |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200128065717/https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/vc/marios_super_picross_snes |archive-date=January 28, 2020 |date=September 15, 2007}}
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Notes
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n02/shvc/p_acxj/index.html}} {{in lang|ja}}
- {{moby game|id=/marios-super-picross}}
{{Mario puzzle games}}
{{Picross}}
Category:Jupiter (company) games
Category:Picross (video game series)
Category:Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Category:Video games developed in Japan
Category:Virtual Console games
Category:Virtual Console games for Wii U
Category:Single-player video games