Tetris & Dr. Mario

Tetris & Dr. Mario
Developer	Nintendo R&D1
Publisher	Nintendo
Platforms	Super Nintendo Entertainment System, LodgeNet
Release dates	December 22, 1994 1994 July 25, 1995 Player's Choice: September 1, 1997
Language	English
Genre	Puzzle
Ratings	ESRB: - Kids to Adults ACB: - General[?]
Mode	1–2 players
Format	Super NES: Game Pak
Input	Super NES: Super NES Controller
Serial code	SNS-ATFE-USA

Tetris & Dr. Mario is a video game compilation released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1994. It contains enhanced remakes of Tetris and Dr. Mario. Additionally, it includes a "Mixed Match" mode that transitions between the two games as the players progress, beginning at Tetris's B-Type mode before switching to Dr. Mario, then Tetris's A-Type mode and so on. The game also earned a Player's Choice label.

The game's remake of Dr. Mario was later released on the Satellaview as Dr. Mario BS Ban and was broadcast between March 1997 and June 2000, as well as on the Nintendo Power cartridge format and on the Super NES version of LodgeNet as simply Dr. Mario.

Gameplay

Tetris

See also: Tetris § Gameplay

Gameplay of Tetris mode

In Tetris mode, players must arrange blocks, called Tetrominos, across a board in order to create straight lines. As play begins, a random Tetrimino falls to the bottom of the screen. The player can position and rotate it without being able to move it back up. After one is placed down, another appears. This continues for every subsequent Tetrimino. Once the player creates a line, that row disappears. The game is endless, so there is no specific way to "win." The player loses the game if a Tetromino touches the top.

Tetris has an A-Mode, which gives the player an empty board to fill themselves, and a B-Mode, which gives the player a partially filled board that they must work around. B-Mode also gives the player the option to change the height of the board. There are also options for a one-player game, a two-player game, and a single-player mode where a computer is used as an opponent.

Dr. Mario

See also: Dr. Mario (game) § Gameplay

Dr. Mario mode has the same gameplay as the original for the most part. Vitamin capsules are thrown into a bottle full of viruses, and the goal is to line up a minimum of four of a color combination of viruses and vitamins to make them disappear. There are three types of viruses—the Red Virus (Fever), the Blue Virus (Chill), and the Yellow Virus (Weird), with a vitamin color designed to defeat them. The score obtained is based on the Speed, which also determines the speed at which vitamin capsules drop. The base score for Low, Med, and Hi are 100, 200, and 300, respectively. If more than one virus is eliminated in a single move, every subsequent virus is twice the score of the previous, where the rewarded score is maxed out at the sixth virus, meaning that any virus after the sixth is scored the same (3,200, 6,400, and 9,600 for the respective speeds).

The game features slight differences from original releases. Aside from enhanced graphics and music, the game also adds a Vs. Computer mode, which gives the player the option to fight against the blue, yellow, or red virus. The blue virus represents an easy computer, while the yellow and red viruses represent medium and hard, respectively.

Mixed Match

Gameplay of Mixed Match. The first player advanced to the next level and is now playing Dr. Mario while the second player is still on the first stage playing Tetris.

In this game's exclusive Mixed Match mode, players play through three modes within a time limit, starting with Tetris's B-Mode where a specified number of lines must be cleared, followed by Dr. Mario where all the available viruses must be eliminated, and finally ending with Tetris's A-Mode, which is endless. Unlike in the individual Tetris and Dr. Mario modes, there is no single-player version, and it can be played with only two players where there is no option to play against a computer player. Within this mode, players cannot disrupt their opponents as a result of clearing multiple lines with a single piece. If the player loses one of the modes as a result of filling up one of the middle columns, the progress within that mode is reset and the score for it is also reset to zero. The player who scores the higher total number of points across the three modes is the winner, but if both players score the same total number of points, the result is a draw.

There are two options for Mixed Match: Game Start and Options. The former allows the player to choose the Handicap, Play Time (three, five, or seven minutes), and Music (three different music themes, plus an option to turn it off). For this game's handicap in Game Start, the settings for all three modes are as follows:

Handicap	Tetris-B	Dr. Mario	Tetris-A
Easy	Level: 3 Height: 1 (3 lines) Clear Lines: 10 lines	Virus Level: 2 (12 viruses) Speed: Low	Level: 3
Medium	Level: 5 Height: 3 (8 lines) Clear Lines: 15 lines	Virus Level: 4 (20 viruses) Speed: Med	Level: 5
Hard	Level: 7 Height: 5 (12 lines) Clear Lines: 20 lines	Virus Level: 6 (28 viruses) Speed: Hi	Level: 7

Selecting "Options" allows the player to configure the settings for both players individually, although changing the music requires going to Game Start to do so, just by highlighting the desired music option. The settings include the following and their respective limits:

• Tetris-B
  • Level: 0–10
  • Height: 0–5 (starts with 0, 3, 5, 8, 10, and 12 lines, respectively)
  • Clear Lines: 1–30
• Dr. Mario
  • Virus Level: 0–20 (starts with four viruses at level 0, increased by four more viruses per extra level)
  • Speed: Low / Med / Hi
• Tetris-A
  • Level: 0–10
• Play Time: 1–30 (minutes)

Controls

• (left/right): Move falling tetromino/capsule
• (down): Drop tetromino or capsule
• : Flip falling tetromino/capsule clockwise
• : Flip falling tetromino/capsule counterclockwise
• : Start/pause the game
• : During Tetris, toggle the "NEXT" block display on or off

, , , and are unused, but in the removed Options menu, there is a Controller Setup menu that allowed for setting up a function for those buttons.

Characters

• Dr. Mario (playable)
• Fever (enemy and opponent in Vs. Computer mode)
• Chill (enemy and opponent in Vs. Computer mode)
• Weird (enemy and opponent in Vs. Computer mode)

Staff

Main article: List of Tetris & Dr. Mario staff

Gallery

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  The game's logo

Screenshots

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  Title screen

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  Main Menu

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  Title screen for Dr. Mario

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  The settings for Dr. Mario

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  Gameplay of the one-player mode

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  The selection for the VS. Computer mode

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  Gameplay of the VS. Computer mode

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  Gameplay of the two-player mode

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  Title screen for Mixed Match

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  The settings for Mixed Match

Box art

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  North American box art (For Display Only)

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  North American box art (Player's Choice)

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  Canadian box art

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  Brazilian box art

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  European box art

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  United Kingdom box art

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  United Kingdom box art (Nintendo Classics)

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  French and Dutch box art

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  French and Dutch box art (Nintendo Classics)

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  Spanish box art

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  Spanish box art (Nintendo Classics)

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  Spanish and Italian box art (Nintendo Classics)

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  German box art

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  German box art (Nintendo Classics)

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  German box art (Alternate)

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  Australasian box art

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  Korean box art

Miscellaneous

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  French print ad

Multimedia

For the complete list of media files for this subject, see Multimedia:Tetris & Dr. Mario.

Main Title

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Game Select

File info ​

Mixed Match Music 1

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Help:Media file • Having trouble playing?

References in later games

Dr. Mario World

• Music 1 from Mixed Match is arranged for Dr. Toad's first tutorial in this game.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Italian	Tetris e Dr. Mario	Tetris & Dr. Mario
Korean	테트리스 & 닥터 마리오 Teteuriseu & Dakteo Mario	Tetris & Dr. Mario