Mario's Super Picross
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This game is the Super Famicom adaptation of the original Game Boy game, Mario's Picross. In it, you solve nonogram puzzles against a timer, with Nintendo mascots Mario and Wario encouraging you along the way.
When the player solves a puzzle correctly, the black-and-white representation becomes colored and animated, and the game tells you the title of the puzzle. When you finish a section, Mario will congratulate you on your progress and bow.
The player must work through levels in order to get access to harder levels, with more rows and columns. In Mario's puzzles, if you mark the wrong cell, you will lose time. The amount of time doubles for every mistake (1 min, 2 min, 4, 8, and so on). In Wario's puzzles, the time counts up from zero, and no penalty is assessed for marking the incorrect cell. Because of this, Wario's puzzles are a little harder than Mario's.
Nintendo re-used the game engine in their Picross NP series, available only through Nintendo Power kiosks in Lawson's. In the Picross NP series, players could decipher pictures of Pokémon, Star Fox and other game characters, as well as famous locations in Japan.
Also see:
- Mario's Picross - Game Boy
- Mario's Picross II - Game Boy
- Picross NP Vols. 1-8 - Super Famicom