Photos with Mario

Photos with Mario (Japanese: いっしょにフォト スーパーマリオ Issho ni Foto Sūpā Mario) is a photography-based application released on the Nintendo 3DS, allowing players to take pictures of various Mario characters. It is the Nintendo 3DS's first entirely Mario-centered application. The application was developed by the same teams behind Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario 3D Land, compatible with special Mario-themed AR cards.

Photos with Mario and the cards that it requires were released in Japan on April 23, 2013, and on May 18, 2014 in North America. As of November 2013, it is one of two such applications on the Nintendo 3DS, the other being Photo Together with Animal Crossing.

Cards released
Six cards have been released in two sets, with each card in a set having a different price point. The cards were released with special Nintendo eShop prepaid cards, also including a QR code on the prepaid card to download the application from the Nintendo 3DS eShop. In the USA, these cards are available exclusively at Target stores.

Gameplay
The application features the ability to move the characters away from the AR card and place them anywhere to take a photo. Additionally, placing multiple cards in one frame causes the characters to interact with each other in some way (i.e. the Goomba charges Mario but gets jumped on); the ? Block card is also compatible with the application, which creates a Warp Pipe that provides a different reaction with each character the card interacts with (with Mario and Peach, a Toad emerges, and with the Goomba, a Piranha Plant emerges; if multiple character cards are in the frame, the question card shows only a pipe, and if nothing else is on screen, a Bullet Bill emerges).

The player can also cause several effects to happen on-screen, such as blowing bubbles, causing a gust of wind, causing it to snow, and having party poppers go off.