Binding: Video Game Brand: Nintendo EAN: 0045496630621 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Label: Nintendo Manufacturer: Nintendo Platform: Nintendo NES Publisher: Nintendo Sales Rank: 4275 Studio: Nintendo
Rating: - Simplistic and Addictive
When Tetris hit the scene, it became more than just a popular video game. It became a cultural phenomenon. Usually when a game achieves an unusual amount of success you'll have a game try to copy the formula (usually failing). Doctor Mario, on the other hand, didn't try to copy the formula put forth in Tetris. It simply put a new spin on the puzzle genre.
Dr. Mario perhaps some of the simplest gameplay of any game. Mario stands on the sidelines and throws pills into a jar. In the jar are different color viruses. Red, Yellow and Blue. The color of the virus doesn't matter. What matters is the colors on the pill Mario throws in. The objective is to simply match the corresponding color of the pill with the virus. In the first level, there are just a few viruses. The higher the level the more viruses are in the jar.
You don't have to begin at level one. You can choose what level you want to begin with. Even then, the game doesn't end at the maximum level you can choose. It keeps going. Much like Tetris, there's really no end to the game.
You can also choose your speed. Medium, Low, or High. This is really the only thing which will add difficulty to the game. Mario not only throws pills faster, but they fall faster, depending on the speed you choose.
It doesn't sound like much, but the game is addictive. Especially when playing against someone else. It's not as addictive as Tetris and competition becomes more based on how fast you can do certain levels rather than actual skill. But then again, there's not much skill involved in Dr. Mario. Which is exactly why Dr. Mario works. The game is so simple that anyone can play it.
Visually for an NES game it looks pretty basic. Very colorful. Although Mario has never looked better, there isn't much you can say about Dr. Mario's graphics because they're just so basic. Even for an NES game. So there's nothing groundbreaking even for its time. But who cares? The game is fun and in the NES days that was what you played for. It's a great game and its simple. While there's no doubt that Tetris had nothing to fear, Dr. Mario was still a fun game.
If there was anything wrong with Dr. Mario it would simply be that there's no real way to build upon it. All the future releases of the game have pretty much been the same thing over and over again, just on a different console. This isn't necessarily bad, but it means that if you own one of the other variants, say the Gameboy, Super Nintendo (which is the best one because you get Tetris with it), or Nintendo 64, then you're all set. Regardless of which one you have, you'll probably be satisfied.
Rating: - good game especially for 2 people to compete
product was delivered expediently and the game is very userfriendly and good for 2 people to compete
Rating: - Dr. Sonic for Game Boy Advance
Dr. Sonic for Game Boy Advance is released on 2003 and 2004. It seen on 103 and 173 in 1 Game Paks.
Different from the NES versions:
Title Screen
* Black Ticket with Dr. Sonic, Blue Virus and Cursor
* White screen left of Dr. Sonic and Blue Virus with Black 1P/2P Game and 1996 Word
* 1996 appears intead of (c) 1990 Nintendo
Game Screen
* Virus not move in bottle
Title and Game Screens
* Dr. Mario logo not appear
Game and system sold separately.
Rating: - A classic? No way!
Dr. Mario is a sad excuse for a NES and arcade classic. This wanna be Tetris is terrible and brings dishoner to our console games. The concept of fighting strange viruses is weird (I'll give it to the creators, it's original.) The graphics are so-so and my least favorite format; on the virge of 8-bit and 16-bit. The music is catchy but the sound of it is an irritating screech. Those of you who like this, go for it. It is also too difficult for players and the worse part is that this is going to be in jewel cases! Whazup wit dat?
Rating: - Dr Mario
This is an excellent game and if you were looking for a version of Tetris that was more challenging, than DR MARIO was for you. This game is sometimes very tricky, but it's very fun as well.
The object of the game is to match the colors of the pills that are being dropped onto the viruses below and by doing this killing them off, one by one. I really don't carw what anyone says but this game rocked. In Tetris, the challenge was to clear lines that are at the bottom and they build up. In DR MARIO you had to play the boards as they were giben and in most cases, the viruses were all over the place so placing some of the pills in the wrong place could come back to haunt you.
Like I said, the challenge to this game is great and it never got tired. Really check out DR MARIO it's worth it!
- Simplistic and Addictive
- A classic? No way!
