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Scott McCrae

Over 32 years later, Nintendo has finally released the obscure Mario game from the creators of Pokemon outside of Japan

Mario and wario art showing mario being guided by a fairy.

Nintendo has dropped a new batch of SNES games to Nintendo Switch Online, with a second Fatal Fury release and Bubsy's debut on the service, joined by one of the most obscure Mario games.

When the Nintendo Switch 2 was announced to have mouse features within the Joy-Con controllers, it felt like an inevitability that Mario Paint would be added to SNES online, and it didn't take Nintendo very long to do so, with the game being added within two months of the Switch 2 launch. However, there was another Mario game that required the mouse (Mario's Super Picross has been on SNES online for years, too, but that doesn't need the mouse), that was only released in Japan, and the real question was whether Nintendo would pull the trigger.

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