If the top of the board overflows, you lose. For Game A, the board is empty at the start of the game, and the aim is to match two of the same enemy, or the aforementioned egg shells. We’ve got the whole falling block situation again, and in this case the blocks consist of enemies from the Mario side scrollers - Goombas, Piranha Plants, and the like - as well as the top and bottom halves of egg shells, which you have to reunite by lining the halves up (the result is a Baby Yoshi will hatch…!). Compared to Dr Mario, it’s not so polished-looking, either (that lurid green background on Game A makes my eyes sting). It’s still a decent puzzle game, but in my mind it’s not quite as nuanced as the rest. This is probably my least favourite out of the games I’m discussing today. It looks pretty good as a later NES title, it has a catchy soundtrack (only two songs, ‘Fever’ and ‘Chill’, but definitely quality over quantity), and despite the lack of a Game B, it’s so easy to go into a zenlike state on your quest to beat level 20. It has nothing to do with the other Mario games (no Goombas, and notably Peach gets a day off from being kidnapped), but it makes a lot of sense for Nintendo to have chosen to brand an otherwise generic Tetris- clone with their mascot. In order to clear viruses, you need to match, vertically or horizontally, four or more pills or viruses of the same colour.Ĭlear the board of all viruses, and you win, but let the pills stack up so they block the neck of the bottle (easy to do on higher speeds and higher levels, where one mistake costs you the whole game), and you lose. The titular doctor is throwing pills, one by one, of different colour combinations (red and blue, yellow and blue or red and yellow) into the bottle, and your task is to move and/or rotate the incoming pill to get at least one side to line up with a virus of the same colour. The higher the level, the more viruses you have to clear, and the closer they are to the top of the bottle.
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In Dr Mario, the board consists of a huge bottle full of viruses (red, blue and yellow in colour), but the exact amount of viruses depends on what level you set in the menu. It may not be as pretty or as expansive as the two SNES offerings, but it’s an NES game - of course it wouldn’t be. Mario? A doctor?! The world may never know if this Mario is the same as the Mario we see in all the other games, but regardless Dr Mario is a great time. Dr Mario ( 1991 in Europe) – NESĭr Mario is certainly an interesting concept. Also, this isn’t every puzzler available on the service: just the ones I wanted to talk about. They’re easy to learn, difficult to master, really addictive, but also great for playing in short bursts - and they’re very at home on the Switch. But I’m not exaggerating when I say they take up the majority of my hours spent in-game for both the NES and SNES apps. Perhaps these games are underappreciated. I’ve spoken at length about NSO before, but I’ve never given a dedicated spotlight to the puzzle games that are included in this collection (though I have given an honourable mention to Dr Mario in the past). They’re all puzzle games that come with Nintendo Switch Online. I have also linked to a video, which is credited in the text.ĭr Mario. The charm of Nintendo Switch Online’s puzzle gamesĪll images, including the featured image, were taken by me.
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