Mario is Missing! CD-ROM Deluxe

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Mario is Missing! CD-ROM Deluxe
Box art of Mario is Missing! CD-ROM Deluxe
Developer The Software Toolworks
Publisher The Software Toolworks
Platforms MS-DOS, Macintosh
Release date USA June 1994[1]
Languages English
French (Europe)
German
Genre Educational
Rating
ESRB:K-A - Kids to Adults[?]
Mode Single player
Format
Optical disc
Input

Mario is Missing! CD-ROM Deluxe is an enhanced port of Mario is Missing!. Due to the differences in formatting, the CD-ROM is able to hold more data than the floppy disk version, allowing for enhancements to be made.

Differences[edit]

Mario is Missing! CD-ROM Deluxe includes voice acting for its characters, in addition to providing live-action footage for the backgrounds of some of the different cities that the player can visit. The CD-ROM includes 127 different video clips. In addition, characters from the Super Mario franchise replace some of the non-playable characters during phone calls that appeared in the previous release; however, none of the written dialogue is modified to reflect this change. In addition, the game adds loading screens, which show during short moments of darkness.

Mistakes and errors[edit]

For mistakes and errors also found in the floppy disk version, see here.

  • As the game reuses the map from the DOS version of the game, it does not feature Eritrea, which had previously formalized its split from Ethiopia several months after the release of the DOS version. Consequently, Asmara is listed as part of Ethiopia rather than part of Eritrea.
  • In the CD-ROM Deluxe version, the Dino-Rhino curator in Sydney pronounces Bondi Beach with an "e" sound. "Bondi" is officially pronounced with "eye" at the end.

Gallery[edit]

Notes[edit]

  • Mario's voice is inconsistent in the CD-ROM Deluxe version. Sometimes he has an Italian accent, sometimes he has a New York accent with a slight hint of Italian. The game's data includes all of his lines in both accents, so it is likely that the developers accidentally assigned some from both. Luigi, however, has a consistent New York accent.
  • Although some Super Mario media supply voice acting for the Koopalings (namely the DIC cartoons), the CD-ROM Deluxe version is the first game to have them voiced, as well as the only game to actually supply them with dialogue until the release of Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam. Later games starting with New Super Mario Bros. Wii have the Koopalings voiced, although it is limited to roars and grunts.
  • The British CD-ROM release features a non-standard CD-ROM logo, which depicts a CD design only widely used by West German manufacturer PolyGram and its successor plants in France, reunified Germany, and the United States from 1982 to the mid-1990s. This design is distinguished by the disc hub, which is fully mirrored (appearing black in scans and the logo) apart from a laser-etched band along the circumference. Why this specific design was used instead of a more generic clear-hubbed disc is unknown.
  • Despite being implied that the game was not going to be released in Sweden due to being of poor quality and not like other Super Mario games in issue 2/1994 of Nintendo-Magasinet,[2] an official Scandinavian CD-ROM release of the game released in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden exists.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ June 23, 1994. The Software Toolworks Ships Mario is Missing! on Macintosh CD. Retrieved June 5, 2025 from The Free Library. (Archived January 19, 2018, 12:01:30 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
  2. ^ Nintendo Magasinet 1994 Nr 02
  3. ^ Scandinavian CD-ROM box art

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