Play Nintendo



Play Nintendo is a division of Nintendo's official North American website. It promotes contemporary Nintendo systems and games, while maintaining a focus on appealing to a younger audience. It was established on October 5, 2014. The icon used for the website appears to be a Power Star or Super Star.

The website's content is split into three sections: Friends, Explore, and News & Tips. A clickable ? Block appears throughout these sections, which random events occur when clicked, like 8-bit Super Mario walking across the webpage, or coins appear on the screen, which can be collected with the mouse cursor.

Friends
"Friends" consists of profile artworks and descriptions of various main Mario and other Nintendo characters. The following Mario characters are listed on the website, along with their respective descriptions. Bios from the "Who's Your Mushroom Kingdom BFF" activity are also included here.

Explore
This section of the website contains Nintendo-related activities, videos, quizzes, polls, image galleries and downloadable content (such as wallpapers and printable door hangers).

Activities features interactive Flash games. Mario-themed activities include:
 * There's a Goomba on my desktop: A desktop or mobile phone wallpaper creator in the style of Super Mario Maker. Many classic Mario gameplay elements, such as Goombas and ? Blocks can be arranged into a downloadable wallpaper.
 * Donkey Kong Match-Up: A card-matching game featuring Donkey Kong characters and items based on Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze. There are three modes to play: Easy, Medium and Hard.
 * Mushroom Kingdom Match-Up: Similar to Donkey Kong Match-Up, but featuring main series characters such as Yoshi and Princess Peach. The ''Super Mario Bros. overworld theme is heard while playing the game. The reverse of the cards show a picture of a ? Block.
 * Yoshi's New Island Match-Up: A card matching game using imagery from Yoshi's New Island. The common overworld level theme is heard while playing the game.
 * Mario Stargazer:
 * Mario Kart 8 Party Starter:
 * A (puzzle) piece of art: A group image of several characters from the Mario franchise is split up into 8, 18 or 50 pieces (depending on the chosen difficulty), which may be solved as a jigsaw puzzle by the player.
 * Who's Your Mushroom Kingdom BFF?

Downloads contains the following printable Mario-related content:
 * Door hangers featuring Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach and Daisy.
 * Mario and Luigi masks.
 * A Father's Day card featuring Bowser and Bowser Jr.
 * Two Mother's Day cards. One features Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, and Baby Peach. The other features Rosalina and a Luma.
 * To celebrate National Siblings day on April 10, four different Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U cards are available to download.
 * A Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam-themed fortune teller featuring Mario, Luigi Princess Peach and Bowser.
 * A group of six Valentines Day cards, featuring Mario characters and enemies such as Shy Guy, Rosalina and Boo. A pun is written on each card. A second group of Valentines Day cards also feature an artwork of Yoshi and Poochy.
 * A Valentines day card pouch featuring Mario and Princess Peach, with the message "Happy Valentines Day" below.
 * Jack-o'-lantern stencils featuring Bowser, King Boo, Shy Guy and Paper Mario.

The Play Nintendo Show
Play Nintendo also extends to YouTube audiences using an official channel containing gameplay videos of contemporary games, and other Nintendo-related videos. The Play Nintendo Show is a current series of YouTube videos featuring a Piranha Plant named Izzy as a co-host. The second host, named Andrew, begins the show by exiting a Warp Pipe. The show is set in a Mario-themed room with plush toys and pictures of Coins and other Mario-related pictures on the walls. Andrew calls the room "Casa de Nintendo", Spanish for "House of Nintendo".

List of Mario related Play Nintendo episodes

 * Episode 1: Coin Crazy with New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Andrew and Izzy rank the five greatest Mario Power-Ups. Later, New Super Mario Bros. 2 is reviewed. Andrew mentions that any coins that he collects will go towards Bowser's birthday.
 * # 1 Super Leaf
 * # 2 Gold Flower
 * # 3 Mega Mushroom
 * # 4 Mini Mushroom
 * # 5 Super Star


 * Episode 6: Mario Kart 7 Road Hog – For this episode, the duo ranks the five Mario Kart 7 items that will help them get to class on time.
 * # 1 Lucky Seven
 * # 2 Super Star
 * # 3 Super Leaf
 * # 4 Banana
 * # 5 Lightning


 * Episode 9: Paper Mario: Color Splash - Paint Palooza – For this episode, the duo ranks the five ways the Paint Hammer can be used to do chores in Paper Mario: Color Splash.