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Instruction booklet · August 17, 1992

Mario Paint

MusicPuzzleSimulator1 playerPre-ESRB

The story

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…

Specifications

Released
August 17, 1992
Developers
Nintendo R&D1, Intelligent Systems
Publisher
Nintendo
Players
1
Genre
Music · Puzzle · Simulator
Rating
Pre-ESRB
Series
Mario
Themes
Educational · Kids
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What the magazines said

8
8
9
8
EGM · four reviewers
Players
73/100 (71 ratings)
Computer and Video Games
91%
Game Informer
8.75/10
Total!
48%
Control
55%
Nintendo Magazine System (Australia)
70%
SNES Force
82%
Super Play
55%
Super Pro
90%
BE KIND, REWINDThe week it came out
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Week of August 14, 1992
Aug. 20

The Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas re-nominates U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle. Pat Buchanan, one of Bush's opponents in the primaries, delivers a controversial convention speech, in which he refers to a "religious war" in the country.

💵 $59.95 in a 1993 catalog · about $134 today

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