By Gerald Lynch
With Super Mario Run, Nintendo’s mascot has found a new home on a somewhat unlikely platform – Apple’s iPhone 7 and the App Store.
Though we usually associate the mustachioed plumber with Nintendo’s own consoles, from the NES through to the Wii U, it’s far from the first time the plumber has turned up in some weird places. And, equally, the mushroom muncher has been on some bizarre adventures even at home on Nintendo’s own hardware.
- Game and Watch
And you thought Mario’s DIY skills were limited to just plumbing. In this Game & Watch title from 1983, Mario has to empty cement from a trucks, hopping around moving platforms to do so. Somewhere between a platformer and a puzzler, it’s something of a collectors’ item these days, as it can only be found in a standalone miniature desktop device with its own LCD screen.
- Famicom Disk System
One for budding fashion designers, this 1988 title was the first in a surprisingly long series of educational Mario games. As a super-popular character, it was thought that Mario could be a good gateway into a whole world of knowledge for younger players. But they were almost uniformly awful games.
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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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