Customer Reviews

Mario Paint

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

I didn't even know what this was until I bought it, and I love it. I see a lot of similarities between Mario Paint and Photoshop. The main difference is that Photoshop has a lot of weird tools I don't understand, and Mario Paint has more than just "Paint" stuff. The intro is interactive, it has a Mario-themed music editor, and it has a Swat-the-Bug game. You can do lots of kool stuff with Mario Paint.

You make pictures and put stamps on them { if ya don't like them you can make your own. You can make music tunes and get a coloring book and you save your pictures. You can do fun erases and use a SNES mouse {A computer mouse}. You can also play a fly swattin game get mario paint RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!

Considering when it came out, Mario Paint was actually fairly forward thinking. It's primarily based on a painting and drawing skill set, but the game has around 8-10 modes or screens, and you can do different things on each one. Some are more complicated than others. The basic mode is a blank screen which you can fill with just about anything (the game has a bunch of colors you can use, a ridiculous amount of patterns and tons of small graphics of cats and fences and cars and a ton of other stuff so that you can create a totally individual 'painting' of a city, forest, space thing, whatever. Probably the most simplistic one is like a coloring book with 4 or 5 already drawn images which you can fill in, again, with regular color or the patterns of stars or cats or anything. You can get some funny results.

There's three things that really were pretty cool though, again, considering when it came out. You can make really basic animations in the manner of a flip book--you make six or so pictures and change just enough that when they're flipped through things look like they're moving. Very basic, but it's also fairly tricky, getting it to look right. Next, there's the music creation mode. Here there's just a catalog of different sounds (some of them are tones like music and some of them are out there, like pig grunts) and you get a blank music scale to fill up with your preferences. There are a couple demos, so you can see how meshing the different sounds really does create music--they've got the mario theme song (of course) and twinkle twinkle, and both of them are really fun. You can also put your composed song to your animation so that you have a very short little movie with sound. My personal favorite, however, is the flyswatter game. The sounds are cute, and it's so simplistic as to seem stupid, but it's extremely addictive.

A lot of the things Mario paint can do were pretty cutting edge at the time, and even now, there simply aren't a lot of games which you can do this sort of creatively-based stuff on. There are expensive computer programs now, obviously, but for a game you just pop in the SNES? Not so much. However, despite the era it was born in, the graphics don't hold up so hot and it's a Mario tie in, which means a lot of stuff is a little cutesy, which doesn't hold up particularly well outside of the traditional Mario format. For that matter, other than the look of the game and a coloring book pic of Yoshi, it's hard to see how the rest of the game has anything to do with the Mario world.

What it all comes down to is that Mario Paint is exactly as much fun as your creativity will allow--if you're willing to become a perfectionist and really try to make something as developed as possible, you'll be absorbed for hours. However, a lot of folks simply aren't entertained by having to develop stuff using only their imagination, and if you're the type that gets bored easily, you should perhaps spend your money elsewhere.

I am 11 years old, and I just got a Mario Paint game and it's cool!!!If you like Mario games, you must have this one. It's an instant classic to me. I know video games, trust me. Also try Mario RPG.

My older sister got this game when it came out in 1992, when I wasn't even a year old. It's original, fun, but I hate the Super NES mouse, that you have to use! It comes with a pad that you scroll it on, but I lost that 4 years ago. No I have to use notepads, dictionaries... Ahhhhhhh!!! So I gave it to my younger sister when we plugged up our secod Super NES in her room. Yet, it's still a fun game where you draw using an alive brush with a face, arms, and legs. There are a couple of mini-games also. In one of them you can your own song using Mario heads, baby Yoshis, Mushrooms, Starmen, and lots of other items, once you finish Mario plays it. This is called Paino Keys. The other one is called Coffee Break, where you use the mouse as a fly swatter and you try to get hit flies, bees, wasp, Bob-Omb spiders, and then a huge robotic grey wasp with every attack and you have to hit it like 8 to 18 times depending on what level your on (there are 3 levels). Overall it's a medium game.

This game definitely has not aged so great. Most new computers have far superior art programs included. And when you talk about paying for specific software, Mario Paint is no longer relevant. That said! I have fond memories of this game and put a ton of time into it. Because it's more than a painting/drawing application. The extra features of music composition & frame by frame animation provided hours & hours of entertainment for me and my friends back in the day. And the "fly swatter" game was one that not only myself, but my parents enjoyed. I have to give this 5 stars because at the time it was released, it was truly innovative. But you won't see this re-released on Virtual Console or anything like that.....as i said before, compared to todays art software, it just doesn't have what it takes. But in the early 90's, a 5 star game. If you played it back in the day and enjoyed it, i would recommend going back and just checking it out...if nothing else, the music will make you smile.

This game came with my snes with a mouse and a keybored. It was fun back then but it gets really tiring. I guess it is made for little kids though. It has so many different features that u can use to make anything. It has stamps of luigi,mario,and other charecters. It is really boring after awile but its for little kids so i do not play it anymore.

I played the composer version on my PC and I thought it was great! Also. I have a question: Does the mouse for this game work on the FC Twin system? Please respond to my question ASAP.

I remember when I was a kid and played the Super Nintendo like crazy, I would rent this game almost every time I went to the video store. Why? Because it's a very simple way for you to be an artist! Also, if you aren't into any of the Mario games or games that require really quick reflexes and not much patience, this lets you slow down a bit while still having fun.

I am actually seen some really amazing pieces of art created on Mario Paint. While it does take some getting use to use, once you know how to use it, you will be amazed with what you can do. I actually remember creating some really neat things with Mario Paint and feeling back that I couldn't print them out and hang them on the fridge!

Seriously, if you have a Super Nintendo, this is an item to add to your collection, just if it's for a little fun.

I was around 5 or 6 when this game came out and I LOVED it!!! I made my parents rent it from the video store CONSTANTLY. I always wanted a copy and now, as an adult, I am buying it for my little one. While, I don't think I will enjoy it as much all grown up, I think my 4 year old could get some use out of it, and I will enjoy the memories. This is a great game for the younger croud. But remeber when it was made, don't expect fabulous graphics. It makes "Paint" on your computer look sophisticated. And the music creator on it it very simplistic, but it sparked a love of music theory that carried me through college. The good news is you can let your kids be creative and not have to worry about them getting into anything they shouldn't be into on your computer or your home.