Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up

Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up is an computer game featuring Mario and friends released in 1992. It is an Electric Crayon game and was published by Merit Software. The game is essentially a digital coloring book, containing illustrations by Rick Incrocci. A few pages have animated sequences. The pages are themed after common careers. Characters in the game include Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, Toads, and Bowser. Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up features Bowser both as he appears in video games and as he does in the Super Mario cartoons. Link also makes cameo appearances on the Chef/Waiter and Travel guide pages.

Gameplay
The player cannot alter any aspect of the illustrations offered except for the colors. Pictures can be colored from the sixteen-color palette, which is the default palette used in many DOS games. However, clicking on the mix button will "mix" the current color selected with one of the 15 other colors, amounting to a total of 256 possible colors (86, not counting duplicates). Choosing a color and clicking on a picture will fill it with the selected color. The finished, or in progress, coloring is automatically saved to disk. The player can click the "oops" button to remove all colors applied previously and start coloring from the very beginning. Players can also select the name box for information on the occupation, as well as the picture. After the page is completed, the player can either print it or move on to the next page. Clicking the running man in the bottom right will animate the drawing.

Trivia

 * Aside from Link, a few other pictures have cameos from Moblin, Daira, and Bot, which are enemies from the Legend of Zelda series, primarily Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. Mechanic/Racecar Driver also has a cameo of the Monster, despite Famicom Grand Prix II: 3D Hot Rally being a Japan-only game.