Mario games on multiple consoles. Crazy idea right? Well when people bring it up, they’re usually talking about some dark future where Nintendo makes games for Playstation and the like but no, that’s not what this Mario Oddity is about. Turns out, during the NES and SNES era overlap, a few Mario games were made for both consoles, and sometimes even PCs. I’m going to talk about them here.

(Uh, look behind you?)

Mario’s Missing : The infamous game where Luigi first takes center stage. This game is extra special because it was on the NES, SNES, PC, and Mac! A four way multiplatform Mario game must be good right? Well, it’s utterly bizarre… Bowser is trying to flood the EARTH. (Yeah, to needs that MushroomKingdom crap, were in the real world! /s) Well the Koopalings are in this too as this was before Nintendo temporarily sweep them under the rug and retconed their relationship to Bowser.

(Why is Mario happy about that?)

The actual game play is a bit too much to talk about here. It’s “educational” and you have to go around putting artifacts were they belong based off of their real world location. There’s plenty of differences between the versions, such as voice acting for the PC ones, where as the NES version is the most basic. It’s not exactly a good game but I can cover stuff like this in later blog posts.

Is this game memorable though? Oh yeah, it’s Luigi’s first adventure, it’s crappy but in a funny way, and it’s were Weegee comes from.

Mario’s Time Machine:

(Anyone get Super Mario RPG vibes from this)

Another odd ball “educational” Mario game. But with a twist! Actually not, its strange like the first one in that it takes place in the real world but with time travel. We have a NES, SNES, and PC version with differences here and there. That’s kind of it, it doesn’t even have the reputation of Mario’s Missing. Not to mention the game is just confusing for me, but that’s a tale for another day.

Yoshi’s Cookie:

It’s a puzzle game for NES, SNES, and Gameboy and it’s not educational. Phew! You just clear the cookies by matching them the right way. There isn’t much to say about this. It isn’t infamous or bad just underrated and no one really cares about it.

Wario’s Woods:

(Beat that, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker)

For this NES and SNES game to be underrated it’s pretty special. It stars TOAD! Oh and Birdo and someone named Wanda. But oddness aside, it’s another puzzle game, but it’s pretty fun. It’s like Tetris and you have to clear out the monsters that Wario sent after you or something (this is when Wario was still a bad guy). Anyway, this was the last NES game made making it even more obscure. Check it out.

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So those were some cross-platform Mario games from back in the day. I hope to go in more detail on them in the future, thanks for reading!

-The BooMaster