Dr. Mario
Also known as Virus
Dr. Mario is a 1990 GB, GBA, 3DS, NES, SNES, Switch, Wii U game by Nintendo Research & Development 1.
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About the game
In this Tetris -style game, you play as Dr. Mario, who must drop differently coloured pills onto viruses to remove them from the bottle. Each pill is split into two, with each side being of one of three different colours, red, blue or yellow. Align three pills of the same colour to a virus of the corresponding colour (or any combination of pills and viruses totaling four or more) and it will be removed from the bottle, along with the aligned pills. The level is cleared when there are no viruses left, and the game is over when the pills reach the top and Dr. Mario can't drop any more pills.
Included in the game is the normal mode, a time trial, and a two player battle mode to see who can remove the most viruses.
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Facts
- First released
- 1990-07-27
- Developers
- Nintendo Research & Development 1
- Publishers
- Nintendo
- Genres
- puzzle video game, tile-matching video game, falling block puzzle game
- Ratings
- MobyGames score 7.5 (157 votes) · MobyGames
Covers and screenshots
Box, manual and cartridge scans
Front Cover (GB · Australia) Front Cover (GB · Japan) Front Cover (GB · United States) Back Cover (GB · Australia) Back Cover (GB · Japan) Back Cover (GB · United States) Media (GB · Australia) Media (GB · Austria, Germany) Media (GB · Canada) Media (GB · Japan) Media (GB · United States) Media (GB · Belgium, France) Spine/Sides (GB · Japan) Spine/Sides (GB · Japan) Spine/Sides (GB · Japan) Spine/Sides (GB · Japan) Manual (GB · Japan) Manual (GB · Japan) Manual (GB · United States) Manual (GB · United States)
Screenshots
Title screen (GB) Setup (GB) Mario-Tetris? Why not? :) (GB) Ouch, again? (GB) It's too fast! (GB) I guess it's loosing again. (GB) Title screen on Game Boy Color. The game is internally detected and a (not user selectable) palette gets assigned. (GB) Gameplay on Game Boy Color. (GB) Title screen on Super Game Boy. The game is internally detected and this palette gets assigned (out of the predefined ones). (GB) Gameplay on Super Game Boy. (GB)
Releases
| Platform | Released | Regions | Publishers |
|---|---|---|---|
| GB | 1990-07-27 | JP, europe, north-america | Nintendo |
| GBA | 1990-07-27 | JP, europe, north-america | Nintendo |
| NES | 1990-07-27 | JP, europe, north-america | Nintendo |
| SNES | 1990-07-27 | JP, europe, north-america | Nintendo |
| 3DS | 2011-07-27 | — | — |
| Wii U | 2014-03-27 | — | — |
| Switch | 2018-09-18 | — | — |
Barcodes
- 0045496730086
- 4902370501124
Where this comes from
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- Wikipedia game list · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-11-06
- Wikipedia game list · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-11-05
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