Product description
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It's a new outbreak of Dr. Mario madness! Dr. Mario's back,
packing a prescription for fun--and now the frenzied action of
the original gets even more frantic with all-new multiplayer
modes! Up to four players can go head-to-head, or they can pair
up to pile on s in Team Battle. Other options let 'em race
against time in Score Attack, target flashing viruses in Flash
Mode, or test endurance in Marathon play. There's even a new
story mode that pits Mario against pilferers trying to profit
from his Megas. It's a puzzling epidemic, and Dr. Mario's
got the cure!
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Back in the early 1990s, after the world had gone mad for
Tetris, Nintendo put out its own variant of the puzzle game that,
unlike most clones of the day, actually brought some new life to
the original idea. Now the classic Nintendo game, with some
improvements of its own, is reintroduced for the Nintendo 64.
Rather than just twisting shapes to fill vacant spaces, Dr. Mario
64 will have you matching -shaped pills to fight
like-colored viruses. Players earn point bonuses when stringing
combos together. Dr. Mario 64 comes with the original one- and
two-player modes, and introduces a simultaneous four-player mode.
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Review
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Since his graduation from the Nintendo Medical School in 1990,
part-time plumber and full-time hero Mario has fought the good
fight against germs and flu bugs on the Game Boy and the Super
NES; now he's here to disinfect your Nintendo 64! While we don't
expect this update to change the genre in new and brilliant ways,
numerous small additions and a very attractive price tag make
this game just the thing we'd prescribe for the puzzler blues.
For those two or three of you unfamiliar with the game's premise,
the challenge is for players and Mario to combat a swarming,
relentless mass of viral bugs and the like. How? By blasting them
back to germ-heaven with a good dose of drugs and antibodies --
in the form of multi-colored (they're halved) pills. Viruses are
dispatched by matching each offending microbe with a minimum of
four pills of the appropriate color. Of course, if the screen
gets clogged with the germies, the patient's written off as a
lost cause, and it's game over. It's simple, Tetris-like fun, and
about as addictive, too -- addictive as a drug, one might say.
There are aspects that'll make this game worth a good look,
however, and a four-player mode -- a first for the series -- is
by no means chump change, either. We all know that puzzle games
(especially the twitchy, geometric sort) are best played with a
friend or two, and, of course, that's just as true of germs. As
with previous versions, successfully clearing large combinations
of viruses scores the big points, but gives players an advantage,
too, by raining remnants of pills down onto the screens of their
foes.
Other noticeable additions to this 64-bit update include the
addition of Wario (no big deal in itself, but noteworthy), a
timer and a larger gameplay area. This last addition is a welcome
one, and should serve to make things both easier and more hectic,
depending on how (and how well) the game is played. Visual
updates are sure to be included, but don't get your hopes up for
an aesthetic masterpiece: One look at these screens will clue
just about anybody in that the game's not going to win any awards
for boundary pushing. Still, if it's anywhere near as compelling
as the first few games, that'll probably be fine with most
gamers.
Few details about additional or innovative game modes have been
included, so we'll wait and see if Nintendo releases the game
with the proper a of perfection and polish, or simply
expects the four-player goodness to sell a copy. We're hoping for
the former -- and if there's one thing to be sure about when it
comes to Nintendo, there's usually a trick or two stashed
carefully away.
It's about time that Nintendo decided to bring the game's tried
and true formula to the N64, and it's a perfect time for those of
you who haven't already succumbed to the game's inherently heady
goodness to get in on the action. The game goes on sale April 9,
and -- at a price of $29.95 -- could well be one of the last good
games available for the system. -- DailyRadar Review
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