Thursday, July 18, 2024

Mario's Early Years Fun with Letters for SNES


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Mario's Early Years Fun with Letters

An ABC book. With Mario sprites.


Genre: educational - n/a

Publisher: Toolworks

Year: 1994

System: SNES


Gameplay Score: 0

Gameplay Notes:

Point and click controls. Choose an option and click B for the game to play a soundbite.


Level Design Score: 1

Level Design Notes:

Having raised 5 kids of my own I can appreciate the flashcard-like design of each of the activities. As such I agree that there's value in doing what is here, however there's so little of it that I question whether anyone would use it more than once. Each activity has a set number of flashcards which aren't random. Every time you go into the "ends with a letter" activity you're greeted with the same 12 cards.


Theme Score: 3

Theme Notes:

Well done tbh. Looks and sounds like a Mario letters training game. Doesn't play like one but it looks the part.


Art Style Score: 3

Art Style Notes:

Quite nice. 3 year olds would be delighted


Audio Score: 2

Audio Notes:

Fairly well done but the music doesn't sound quite like the originals. On the other hand the voice files sound incredible for the time. Its a shame this wasn't on a CD based system where there could've been 100x as many files.


Overall Score: 18

Review ID: 314



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