Mario is Missing! (SNES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- A playthrough of The Software Toolworks' 1993 edutainment game for the Super NES, Mario is Missing!
Mario is Missing! was one of several officially licensed Mario games from the early 90s that were produced by companies other than Nintendo, and it was one of the best ones.
Created by The Software Toolworks, a development and publishing house known for things like Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing and the Miracle Piano Teaching System, Mario is Missing! is an educational game that has been superficially disguised as a Super Mario World-style platformer.
Mario is Missing! starts with Mario being captured at Bowser's fortress in Antarctica. Bowser has his koopalings out stealing priceless relics as part of some convoluted plot to melt the polar ice caps, and with Mario out of commission, Luigi steps in to save his brother and the Earth in his first ever starring role!
Luigi has to explore fifteen major cities, all accessible through doors in Bowser's castle. Each of the cities has had three items of cultural significance stolen, and these items are all being held by the Koopa Troopas wandering about. You have to stomp them, steal back the goods, and then gather information on those items by questioning the local people. Once you have your facts straight, you can return the items to their proper places after answering questions to prove their authenticity. Finally, once you've figured out where you are in the world, you can summon Yoshi and warp back to Boswer's castle to continue the quest.
It all feels a lot like Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? with its heavy emphasis on geography and history. The biggest difference is that Mario is Missing! trades the menu-centered interactions of Carmen Sandiego with a system that better resembles an action game that kids on their own might choose to play. If you want your dog to take his medicine, you just stick the pill in peanut butter and mission accomplished, right? Well, if you'd like a disinclined child to learn something, disguise it as a video game and you'll see the same magic at work. Psychology is a wonder like that.
I was about ten when we rented Mario is Missing! as a new release, and I found it pretty easy. I tore through it in a single weekend, but I distinctly remember having a lot of fun with it. The graphics and sound were neat (I loved the parade of Mario theme remixes!) and there are a number of random facts that it taught me that I can still remember to this day.
(But why do half the buildings in Tokyo feature giant signs that read "Toyota" in katakana? Hahaha!)
It's not a traditional Mario game, but it is a neat and effective teaching tool that doesn't pander to nor patronize the children it was made for, well presented in a surprisingly palatable Mario theme. If you happen to have an elementary schooler in your house that likes old video games, give them a copy of Mario is Missing! There's a good chance that they'll enjoy it, and that they'll learn something in the process.
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This one really takes me back. I remember I was confused as a kid trying to figure out how to play it because the kids that owned this game didn't know either. When Nintendo started talking about _Luigi's Mansion_ being the first game starring Luigi, I immediately remembered this title and begged to differ!
Nobody knows how to play this game
Haven't played this in a long time. I was confused about this game too.
Me too man
It's like a detective history trivia game. You have to find the artifacts and items as well as learn facts about them or the area and answer questions when turning them in.
Mario is missing wasnt made by nintendo though. All the weird mario edutainment games in the 90s were third party games.
Man, I rented this game for a weekend from a movie gallery when I was little.
It was such a disappointing weekend
😂😂😂😂 the title and cover was SO misleading. At least the music was ok
Luigi visitou o Rio de Janeiro no Brasil
Luigi visited Rio de Janeiro in Brazil
I was looking for a comment like this before I made one. Same here. I seriously thought I was getting a Super Mario World expansion where I could play Luigi. Man was I disappointed
Same thing happened to me.. depressing weekend. i still remember being all stoked renting it and it being a flop, couldn’t figure out the game play at the time.. it never got rolling
Bruh same here, my dad rented it for me at a Hollywood video rental store lol
Something drew me to this game when I was a kid. The music is brilliant. One of my favorite classics!
I love the "world music" remixes of Super Mario World songs. That's about the best thing the game has going for it.
I totally agree with you. As a kid I was so disappointed with this game when I got it for Christmas, despite not asking for it, but I did find the music to be nice.
I think my favorite one is the remix for Moscow and Egypt, it slaps like heck. I like the New York City music too.
I first misread "Italian Stallion" as "Italian Stalin" and thought to myself: "Nintendo had balls"
Brazil, 1997. I was 12 and trying to figure out what to do in order to complete this game despite not being able to speak or read a word in English. I really wanted to play it - after all, I had spent all the little money I had renting the bloody game. I wanted to make the most out of what seemed to be a total bummer to come. So, I ploughed through the game using a 1960s English-Portuguese dictionary. I can't really recall whether I ever got to the end of the game or not. However, I have vivid memories of that ever-growing excitment as I was piecing things together. But I don't mean the game. I mean the language! Satisfaction came from my making sense of the English language! Of course it took me way longer than a single weekend playing Mario's Missing until I acquired a minimally decent level of proficiency, but it all started there. Being able to speak English allowed me to live through experiences in differente countries with differente people on both professional and personal levels. So, to a certain degree, it's thanks to those who took the time to put this game together that I am what I am. Not in a million years would I have ever thought that a far from promising weekend playing a far from popular game would prompt me, more than a decade later, to set off on the journey that would bring me closer to fulfilling some of my dreams! I take the risk of sounding as cheesy as one can, but I'll say it: Embrace the dull moments in life! They might yield surprising results.
Thank you software Toolworks!
I loved a lot about this game, like the music, and the background art. I learned a lot from this game too about landmarks I was never taught in school.
This game is OBJECTIVELY the best game ever.
It marked a before and after in the history of the video game. Both its mechanics, gameplay, game design, controls, story, graphics, bosses, cinematics, multiplayer, online mode, everything, were revolutionary for the industry.
In an interview, Hideo Kojima stated that Mario Is Missing was his greatest inspiration to become a developer, and it is no wonder, since the influence of this title on Metal Gear is clearly noticeable.
When I finished the game I burst into tears, the best experience of my life, I replay it about 15 times a month.
Without a doubt a very interesting game to play from beginning to end to this day. Its worth noting that the company responsible for making Mario is Missing got rebranded into Mindscape which eventually dissolved around 2011. Its a good thing Luigi got his chance to shine in order to save Mario before Luigi's Mansion came to being.
I finally understand after all these years that the reason I never got off the first stage was because I couldn't read at the time and my tiny mind couldn't pair the curvy map and sidescroller overworld 🤣... good to know since this almost unheard of game has remained on my mind until now. Good to know why my pride was hurt before "getting out of the tutorial" 😉
This was my original "Luigi's Mansion"
Yeah same.
Don't care what anyone says, I actually had a lot of fun with this one back in the day, and boy, is watching this quite a nostalgia trip! In fact, the game taught me a lot about the world and its landmarks, like how only Luigi, a Koopa Troopa, and Carmen Sandiego are the only beings in the Universe strong enough to physically pick up and carry around the Statue of Liberty, or at least her torch.
"i had a lot of fun with this one" No you didnt... no one did. Stop lying
@@romantech5319I did. I didn't enjoy it much when I was five, but when emulators became a thing, I downloaded this on my computer and gave it another shot, I actually enjoyed it lol
This game combines two of my favorite things, Mario and Carmen Sandiego
I never seen this game, so I decided to take a look at it myself.
This game, even tough it is an educational game, it's quite fun actually. Anyone who loves geography will love this...
I love this game!
It really is amazing that this was the first game where Luigi had to rescue Mario, and that Nintendo themselves would not use the idea until Luigi's Mansion in 2001.
Green mario*
It's far from being a traditional Mario game, but not since The Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego had an educational game succeeded so well in being engaging, fun, and... well, educational! Mario is Missing! is a fun relic of an age long past, and it's still neat to look back on now.
Mario's Time Machine... (Ugh...😖 let's just review this terrible game already.)
NEGATIVES
• *The Music* (It's just sounds like total crap. I didn't think anyone could butcher music from Super Mario World, but The Software Toolworks managed to do so.)
• *Bowser's sprite looks pretty bad*
• *Stiff Character Animation*
• *BORING GAMEPLAY* (The biggest flaw. Nothing changes at all! It's the same dull and repetitive slog!)
Final Rating: 1/10
Whatever you do, *STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM THIS AWFUL GAME!*
Just what we're they thinking making an educational Mario game?!
NC, could you play the prototype of Cooly Skunk on SNES? Someone just translated the full game and Satellaview demo into English. www.romhacking.net/translations/5370/
It's a good game (Better than the PS1 version).
I respectfully disagree with Scott there, but nevertheless, I think we can all agree that Bowser's death at the end was a bit gruesome, I always thought. He freezes in the Antarctica snow and then breaks apart. Holy smokes.
@@therealseanw.stewart2071 I love it! The scene from Jason X where he dunks the girl's face in liquid nitrogen and smashes it on the counter always reminded me of the ending to this game! :)
@@therealseanw.stewart2071 Yeah, it's crazy stuff. Poor Bowser.
If you guys like this game, more power to you. It just bores me to death, leading me to not like this educational game.
Carmen Sandeigo is a better educational game than this game.
@@NintendoComplete pin my comment pls
Luigi stomps Koopa Troops so hard they get obliterated or squished to the width of a micron
this truly was peak gaming
I played this game when I was a kid; it may have been one of the free ones you could get with a mail-in offer when you got the SNES with two controllers. I still remember the music, and it was a game I beat like, same day lol
My parents bought me this when I was a kid. I didn't have Nintendo Power yet and none of us knew it wasn't a normal Mario game, including the worker at the store who said "its got Mario so it must be good".
I was confused why the koopa troopas weren't hurting me, but I'd always been a geography nerd so I ended up really enjoying this title, and just wandering around looking at the buildings and the maps while listening to the great soundtrack.
Omg I’d love to play this game again
Before Luigi's Mansion was even made, everybody's favorite 2nd player gets the spotlight for the first time. Princess Peach took a nice break from the routine of being kidnapped by Bowser, and it is Mario himself that needs to be rescued instead.
This was actually the second time, Luigi's Mansion was third and Luigi's Hammer Toss was first
To be honest, I played the game back then just for the soundtrack
I loved this game! I enjoyed learning about the different countries and their cultures. Thanks for sharing!
Are you fucking kidding me ? This is the worst mario game EVER
@@tiomaquito8730 Obviously the best with Hotel Mario being a close second. Play a real Super Mario Tennis game
Glad I’m not the only one. I learned a lot about different cultures/landmarks from this game!
I lEaRnT AbOuT dIfFeReNt cUlTuReS
@@8bitKasper I did lol. Idk if that speaks to how much school held my interest😂
I thought this was a fever dream. Very nostalgic
I still be humming this music on the reg.
Fun Fact:The final boss of Mario Is Missing is not Bowser. It's actually Roy Koopa that's the final boss.
the most fanmade offical Mario game ever
This was my game. I'd still play it of I had my SNES
Download an SNES emulator on your computer. Easy.
Quite possibly the best game of all time
I loved this game. I never beat it, I just thought I was dumb. It wasn't that great a game but it was important in my childhood. I still don't get it, hence why i'm watching this walkthrough years later.
Oh this takes me back. When I was like 4 I used to play this forever but my mom to tell me get off so I play it a night but I got to the end and I willl never forget the times I play this
I bought this game when i was little, brings back so much memories
Makes me wanna cry… no joke I feel this heavy in my heart. This feels like home to me. I can easily imagine the sunny day outside while I’m playing this. Thinking about how slow the days went back then
Man I remember thinking this game was so hard to understand as a kid lol. My brother and I could never figure it out at like 6 and 8 years old. The music is so cool though haha really takes me back
I’d heard the name Mario is Missing for years but had no clue it was like this. Mind blown
For an educational game about history and geography it sure contains a ton of spelling errors and historical inaccuracies. The Super Mario Wiki has the complete list of them.
Hoping someday someone can make a rom hack that fixes the errors. Same for Mario's Time Machine which has the same exact problem.
The fact that these games both heavily borrow assets from Super Mario World and were quickly churned out by the same exact company in 1993 explains it all.
If only we knew how, so we could fix the inaccuracies and do the following:
1. Rework the NPCs to be more Mario-like, as they are taken straight from the DOS version.
2. Shorten the cooldown time of the Tourist Attraction stations after failing their exams.
3. Give Luigi either his SMAS+SMW or SMA2 sprites.
4. Redraw the unique Yoshi away and towards sprites to be more in model of his SMW sprites, and make his arms more consistent; They're orange in his recycled sprites, but green in his new sprites exclusive to this game.
5. Redraw Luigi in the Album screens to be more in line with his official artwork during the SNES Era.
6. Add the Mario hints from the DOS CD version of the game, and change London's background so that it isn't a copy-paste of Moscow.
Imagine how cool it would have been if they made a real game where Luigi is a detective trying to find Mario that would have bees so cool and they wasted it
Music Guide
1:11 Rome, Italy 🇮🇹
7:34 Beijing, China 🇨🇳
15:35 Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪
21:50 Moscow, Russia 🇷🇺
27:45 San Francisco, USA 🇺🇸
35:44 Athens, Greece 🇬🇷 (Same as Nairobi)
42:39 Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷
49:37 Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺
56:19 Mexico City, 🇲🇽 (Same as Buenos Aires)
1:03:22 Paris, France 🇫🇷 (Same as Rome)
1:10:22 New York City, USA 🇺🇸 (Same as San Francisco)
1:16:29 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷
(Same as Buenos Aires and Mexico City)
1:22:51 Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵 (Same as Beijing)
1:29:02 Cairo, Egypt 🇪🇬 (Same as Moscow)
1:34:52 London, England 🇬🇧 (Same as Syndey)
You know after a while I get used to the learning but I guess it's kind of better than Mario's Time Machine
Honestly as a kid this was one of my all-time favs.
I liked it. But I disliked it as well, it was an odd game. No idea how it played. But I had good times wasting time and never finishing it.
@@Foodstamp9162 It was a super easy game to spoof to the end. Travel around the world until you found the end game cactus? Then just play that level. Pretty sure your average adult could beat it in under 30 minutes and bypass other 90 minutes of the game.
@@shadowprince4482 As a kid I had no idea how to play, it was different. I gave up. I might play it just to beat it now that I know how to play it. It's a weird game tho.
This game was ahead of its time 😃😃😃
Back in the day as a little kid, I used to tell everyone that I wanted to play the video games that had the 2 Mexican or Puerto Rican Brothers Mario and Luigi in them. I totally thought that they were Latino Brothers LoL 😂. The joys of being a little kid that is just getting his bearings in the world, you don’t know much and you think you do 😊. I used to play this game like crazy too, along with Super Mario World, Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario Bros. 2. The good ol days 🤓😏👦🏻.
Imagine they brought this game back for the switch, and it was in 3D for school purposes
I rented this from Hollywood Video in 1996 or 97. I had no idea what was going on.
I was today years old when I found out about this game and I'm 34
Bosses timestaps 35:07 Ludwig 1:09:35 Iggy 1:40:52 Roy
Thank you
Cuándo era niño no entendía nada de nada, y ahora que soy mayor sigo sin entender nada de nada. Eso para mí es algo muy nostálgico
I remember playing this when I was 5 or 6 and even though I could read just fine, I had absolutely no idea how to play. I ended up beating one or two levels by sheer luck, but this was before I even knew what the internet was, so I couldn't look anything up.
edit: after watching this, I realize that I must have gotten up to the California area. I don't recall anything after that, but all the areas and music were very familiar up to that point. I don't remember beating the first boss or ever getting that Koopaling out of the cage, so I guess California is where I got stuck (ironic since I've never left the US and was born in Cali 💀)
*Luigi's first game
*His name isn't on the title screen
Talk about irony
Srsly, I hate the way starch smells
Its not even luigi its just green mario 😅
Man, we could have gotten "Mario is" if he didn't stand where that circle was
This was one of my favorite games
0:35 “Glad-a you could drop-a in. Let’s-a go!”
“You-a wait here for me. I’m-a gonna go in and-a find him!”
They refer to the statue in Brazil as "The Redeemer statue" as the name "Christ the Redeemer" was likely banned by Nintendo's censorship policies.
I liked this game back in the day . Definitely multiple rentals from the old video store .
What's a more casually unsettling defeat of a villain: Bowser's skin melting off of his bones in hot lava to Mario saying "that's-a so nice!" in New Super Mario Bros., or Bowser freezing solid in the snow and shattering to pieces like a Sub-Zero fatality from Mortal Kombat -- cue credits roll -- here
This game Was great
I loved this game. I wish they'd put it on the switch.
The answer are lies. Its nowhere near educational.
This one was given to me for free years ago, not one of the prouder parts of my game collection.
The game that taught people reading comprehension and world history
This Super Nintendo port of the PC game, Mario is Missing!, is in the All-Family Series.
the memories
the positives here
some of the music is good and the PC version gave us the legendary weegee
The PC version was so awesome. And creepy.
@krystalfan The music is awful. The PC version isn't much better either. If you (for some reason) want to play this game, play the NES game. It has good music and slightly better gameplay.
@@Dorian_Scottheyy its not that bad! i applaud the effort they put into making all the tracks for different geographical locations. it's a nice touch.
So to complete a level, you need return all artefacts and find a blue pipe?
Yup
We almost rioted at funcoland when this game debuted. The kids at funcoland and the funcoland employees were collectively losing their minds how bad that game was. They had a live demo setup, we were hoping it to be similar to the original Super Mario, but instead saving Mario instead of the princess. Should have been a slam dunk from the brains at nintendo. Oh man we were so angry and dissapointed. I'll never forget it.
I like how nobody answers Luigi’s simple questions they all respond in riddles. I should do that when people ask me questions.
Things to note for the graphics:
1. Mario's signature move, the jump, is UNUSED.
2. Yoshi looks weird when he faces forward, especially his face o_O
3. Yoshi uses weird palettes.
Things to note on gameplay:
I used to play this back when I was in middle school. I started searching for Mario, but I JUST COULD NOT FIND OUT HOW TO PLAY THE DARN GAME.
People used to rag on this game, but I enjoyed it and it saved my arse a couple of times in elementary school.
You know I think they should remake the game onto switch or make a second one
Mario Is Missing is the first Luigi game to be the main protagonist
That was my first Mario game on Super Nintendo ever i got it with my Super Nintendo when I was 7 or 8 years old. I personally have it with me still. Best regards Nikita.K
I actually liked this game when I was little. Yes I got duped at the video rental store into an edutainment game but I can’t lie and say I didn’t enjoy it because I did quite a bit. 😅
Loved this game
I cant believe I played this game when I was like 6 and damn I was good at it.
I owned the game when I was a kid never understood how to played and just seeing it now it is a throw back but at the same time I still don’t like it lol but enjoy seeing it being played
I never knew how to play this game lol
I played through a couple times.
So educational, I loved this game so much
I actually liked it! I was just old enough to read and it was like a history lesson (my school hadn't done history yet)
Wouldn't it be crazy if Nintendo decided to add this to the online Super NES library on the Switch?
Sort of, but they don't exactly own this game, they just licensed the characters and elements
I remember playing the “other “ Mario is missing game as a kid
when i was a kid i thought this game was a fake version of mario world.
I still got this on snes love the gameplay
Es diferente para aprender al igual que Mario's Time machine pero tambien me gusto y a mi niña🎮😃
Did bowser turn to ice and die at the end?
The one girl who is the curator who appears in Mario is Missing, is Princess Daisy
Worst Bowser representation
If it isn't Daisy
Luigi shares same sprite with Mario
At least you understand english, as a kid I was completely clueless and confuse at this, impossible for non english speakers
Not only does Luigi travel the world before Mario but he makes serious bank while doing it too. Poor thing just can't catch a break nor get the respect he deserves. I guess Luigi must have had one hell of a gambling problem in the early 90's he seemed to have lost all that money he made on his world tour; Because it took until 2001 for him to get his lucky break ”he had to work his butt off to get his mansion but hey it's the journey not the destination right?”. Now he even has his own Trump Tower sized hotel. Granted he still had to work for that as well but hey Luigi's not afraid to get his hands dirty to get what he wants.
I rented this game in the early days of my SNES.
It was a USA import that we got from the video hire so we got a region-converter for free with the rental.
Did you own a PAL SNES back then?
@@Dorian_Scott I sure do.
And it's still with me.
@@user-rs1990 You have the cool looking SNES system with the colored face buttons! Us Americans had the ugly looking one with two shades of Purple.😞
@@Dorian_Scott We wanted the Super Famicom design.
I think it inspires the way cars were designed.
the chinese mario music is the most under-memed thing. also I'm pretty sure most of my childhood knowledge of china comes from this game
Green Mario is so underrated. It sucks that he was overshadowed by Luigi.
Cabbusses's Retro Obscurities UA-cam Channel edited in the unused Voice Acting into a video of the ending.
Awwww Luigi let yoshi out side 😂
Lol I liked this game and figured it out pretty quick. It takes memorizing
This game was def not for me as a kid
Bro this game would be fun if it was not a math game bro
GREEN MARIO