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Dr. Mario is an arcade-style puzzle video game created by Nintendo. It was originally released for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy in 1990. It is often likened to a Tetris
-like game. In this game, Dr. Mario throws vitamins that the player must align up to destroy the viruses.

Gameplay

A puzzle game similar to Tetris
, Dr. Mario features the much-franchised Nintendo character Dr. Mario dropping two-sided vitamins into an eight-blocks-by-16-blocks playfield populated by Viruses of three colors (red, yellow, and blue), while the playfield in the Game Boy version measured eight-blocks-by-15-blocks.

There are six types of pills, red-red, yellow-yellow, blue-blue, red-blue, red-yellow, and blue-yellow. Dr. Mario rotates and positions these pills on the viruses and other vitamins, attempting to eliminate the viruses by lining up four or more adjacent viruses or vitamin halves of the same color in a row or column. A player completes a level by eliminating all viruses, and after completing a level in single-player mode, a player moves to the next of the game's 25 levels, whose starting virus counts range from four at level zero to 84 at levels 20 and higher.

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Dr. Mario also appears in Super Smash Bros. Melee
as an unlockable character. In line with his background, he throws Megavitamins, which are considered to be a better projectile than Mario's fireballs. He appears if the player passes the adventure mode with Mario at any level without continues.

Ports

In 1998, a Nintendo Power version was released, for the SNES.
In Dr. Mario 64
, the sequel to this game, the "Classic" mode is an exact rendition of the original game.
2003's "WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$
" contains a mini-game titled "Dr. Wario" with Wario playing the Doctor's role.
In 2004, Nintendo re-released the original Dr. Mario as part of the Classic NES Series on the Game Boy Advance.
In 2005, Nintendo again released Dr. Mario for Game Boy Advance, but this time as an enhanced remake in Dr. Mario & Puzzle League.

Trivia

covers Dr. Mario, but as of 2004, Nintendo has not enforced it against amateur software developers.
The virus characters would later re-appear as enemies in the RPG title Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
. They use the same movement and death animations as their NES counterparts. Interestingly, they have never been given any formal names, and are known simply as "Red Virus," "Blue Virus," etc.

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