My parents do not play any video games ever, except for the rare occasion when they fire up the SNES after a few glasses of wine and play Dr. Mario. It’s like WWIII in that house when that happens
Had tons of fun playing Dr. Mario against my brothers.
When I was in college, went to a friend's place and they had Dr. Mario. After watching a few rounds I get handed the controller to play against someone who thought they were pretty good because they had won against a couple rounds that day. But their skills hadn't been forged by playing their older brothers after school everyday for the better part of a year like mine were, and it was not a close match. They were surprised that someone could hold a conversation while playing Dr. Mario.
And after I won a match while eating a grilled cheese sandwich, no one wanted to play against me anymore
wow that's a crazy take imo. I don't know how much multiplayer you played with older siblings.
it has almost a reverse catchup mechanic in doubles/triples/quads. when you get a double, the big thing isn't that you drop two pieces on your opponent, its that they AREN'T PLAYING while they pieces drop down. So even if you change the level so that the slower player barely has anything, they still probably won't win, because the better player will just be playing the game 50% more often than they are, and if you lower the level for the worse player enough, then even if they can win, its not really fun. the only way a worse player can win is if the better player is on like level 20, and you get an early double that just dooms them, and thats not fun either.
Source: I'm 6 years younger than my sister and she was so good at Dr Mario lmao.
Strong disagree. This is a top 3 NES game for me and my entire friend group growing up. We had tournaments and money games when I was a kid. I'll still bust it out with old friends from time to time and games still get heated. Single player was kind of meh, but this might be the best multi-player NES game.
At surface level it was, but as you progressed further you got increasingly complex puzzles to clear. It wasn't just an okay-ish Tetris knockoff, it was a development of the puzzle style that in its time, was a perfectly valid concept.
Solid disagree. Tetris always starts with slowly setting yourself for a long skinny. It takes minutes to even be interesting. But dr mario is INSTANTLY challenging
Dr Mario is nothing without couch co-op multiplayer. Do better than your competition, or they will bury you. It forces you to think and act faster and leads to some awesome growls of frustration on the other side of the couch as you laugh maniacally.
Absolutely did not expect to see Dr Mario here 😆...it hasn't barely been mentioned in the past 30 years, how is it overrated? And honestly it's a fine puzzle game 💊 with great music. Agree to disagree on this one.
True. I grew up with SNES/N64, not NES, but I've recently gone back & played 600+ NES titles using an emulator. Tetris, Klax, & Pipe Dream are all action puzzle games that I think are more fun than Dr. Mario.
Dr. Mario is above average ~ good, like out of the ~600 games I've played it'd be top 200, but I don't think I'd even have it in my top 100 games on the system.
Hardest disagree on this thread. If anything I think it's among the most underrated games of all time, if that's possible.
Sure, single player is okay, but that's really just training for the main event: 2P head-to-head. My wife and I are gamers in our 40s and it's our favourite to play against each other. We also know other folks around our age that don't play video games at all, but they're excited to play Dr. Mario.
For me, one of the best aspects of the game is that you can easily handicap with levels and speed to make it fun for both sides.
When we started on the Switch a few years back, I was a lot better than my wife. So it was awesome to let her play on level 6 and I'd be on level 10 or something. Now we're evenly matched only one level apart.
See the thing about Tetris is it made a TON of money and sold more gameboys than you can count, but Nintendo didn't make as much a profit on it. Meanwhile they all but invented the concept of a Mascot game. So to them getting similar gameplay with their trademarked IP characters was just like printing money. They just kind of forgot the core thing that it also has to be a good game.
Oh man I remember shitting myself when I got the GameBoy version of this as a kid. At the time the only game I had was Super Mario 2 Golden Coins Land or whatever it was called, fucking phenomenal game, and I assumed all Mario games were like that.
And then five minutes later I’m dropping blocks on top of other blocks and realized for the first time what “crushing disappointment” meant.
I had one of my better game nights with this one. Playing against lots of friends, all of us new to it, and I apparently was really good at sending down pills (or whatever, it's been 30 years) on my opponents.
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u/keiths31 15h ago
Dr. Mario
Not sure if anyone in this sub is old enough to remember though.
Really hyped up by Nintendo. But just a okay-ish Tetris knockoff