Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up

Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up is a DOS 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 coloring book on the computer. A few pages have animated sequences. The pages are themed after common careers. Career themed pages include Policeman, Attorney/Judge, Chef/Waiter, Business Executive, Ballet Dancer, and Homemaker. Characters in the game include Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toads, and Bowser. Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up features Bowser in both his video game form and his cartoon form. Link also makes a cameo appearance on the Chef/Waiter page.

Gameplay


The player cannot alter anything about the pages except for the colors. Pictures can be colored from a palette of 16 colors. Clicking on the mix button will "mix" the current with the 15 other colors and give a total of 256 colors. Choosing a color and clicking on a picture will fill it with the selected color. The finished, or in progress, coloring was automatically saved to disk. The player can click the "oops" button to remove all colors applied previously and start coloring from the very beginning. After the page is completed, the player can either print it or move on to the next page.