Mario's Early Years! Preschool Fun: Difference between revisions

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'''''Mario's Early Years! Preschool Fun''''', released in Europe as '''''Mario's Playschool''''',<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNbeCja0M3o YouTube video of the MS-DOS version released in Europe] (Retrieved July 21, 2019)</ref><ref>[https://tcrf.net/Mario%27s_Early_Years_(DOS) TCRF: Mario's Early Years (DOS)] (Retrieved July 21, 2019)</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/marios-playschool-doscd-v1_0_1 Archive.org - Mario's Playschool]</ref> is an [[Genre#Edutainment|educational]] ''[[Mario (franchise)|Mario]]'' game released in North America in 1994<ref>Nintendo Power Volume 67, Page 105</ref> for the MS-DOS<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHjXq1K0Nvk YouTube video of the MS-DOS version] (Retrieved August 9, 2011)</ref> and [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|SNES]]<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0YPmPrkDhA YouTube video of the SNES version's introduction] (Retrieved August 9, 2011)</ref> developed for children under six years of age. The game is set around a group of islands, where each island teaches a different subject to the players. The overall design of the game is based of ''[[Super Mario World]]'', where the character graphics are taken from it while the music features rearrangements of various tracks.

''Mario's Early Years! Preschool Fun'' is a point-and-click game, similar to other edutainment titles and the first two games of the ''Mario's Early Years!'' series. Players control the mouse cursor with the mouse in the MS-DOS version of the game, and the SNES version uses the controller that imitates mouse functions; the SNES Mouse is compatible with this game. In each of game's worlds, when they are clicked, children's voice overs instruct players how to proceed, and remind players to wake Luigi up before playing a game. In worlds where players need to pick objects to proceed, the character moves and jumps according to a clicked location. If an item is clicked on, the character runs and jumps, hitting the item as if it were a [[block]]. Clicking on the various [[Warp Pipe]]s takes players to further parts of the level, while clicking on Warp Pipes with an arrow pointing at them (yellow in the MS-DOS version, green in the SNES version) takes player back to the main menu.

===Background characters===

These characters congratulate players if they made the correct choices in the stages. Subtitles are present in the SNES version of the game.

WeirdKoopaPlayschool.png|Unknown creature (MS-DOS)

CreatureThingSNESPlayschool.png|Unknown creature (SNES)

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Body World.png|[[Body World]] in the SNES version.

BodyWorldPC.png|[[Body World]] in the MS-DOS version.

 

MarioPlayschoolFunDos.png|[[Mario]]

MarioPlayschoolFunDosSide.png|[[Mario]]

LuigiPlayschoolFunDos.png|[[Luigi]]

BowserPlayschoolFun.png|[[Bowser]]

BowserPlayschoolFunDos.gif|[[Bowser]]

LudwigVonKoopaPlayschool.png|A Koopa that resembles [[Ludwig von Koopa]]

Some quotes from children instructing players are compiled from separate sound bytes.

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