History VideoGame / MarioPaint

'''''Mario Paint''''' was released in 1992 for the UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem. It was the first game to use the SNES Mouse peripheral, and came bundled with it.

''Mario Paint'' (1992) was a painting game for the SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem, featuring Mario. It was the first game to use the SNES Mouse peripheral, and came bundled with it.

The game had various activities: making images using brushes, stamps, and patterns; creating animations; creating music (which could be used in the animations); loading pre-defined images to color or edit in any other manner; and creating custom stamps. ''Mario Paint'' also had a well-known minigame called "Coffee Break" (also referred to as "Gnat Attack" in the manual), in which you had to swat flies to progress through the level, going on forever until you lost all of your lives from getting hit by the flies. This minigame would later be featured in ''[[VideoGame/WarioWare Wario Ware, Inc.: Mega Microgame$]]''.

It is worth noting that the first animated WebAnimation/HomestarRunner cartoon was animated using Mario Paint.

It later got a SpiritualSuccessor, ''VideoGame/MarioMaker''.

Any videos of the music-making subgame can go [[Music/MarioPaint here]].

* EasterEgg: On the title screen, clicking certain letters would cause certain things to happen, such as clicking the letter "P" to make grass, trees, and a bunch of other objects appear; or clicking the letter "O" to hear Kazumi Totaka's secret song. [[spoiler:The Starmen that also fly across the screen occasionally also contain one, if you're fast enough to click one.]]
* FanRemake: ''Mario Paint Composer'', a PC/Mac expansion of the music creator from the original ''Mario Paint''.
* FollowTheBouncingBall: When playing music in the music editor; except with Mario instead of the ball.

** ''VideoGame/WarioWare DIY'' is a GameMaker app for DS in the style of ''Mario Paint''.
** ''VideoGame/MarioMaker'' is a GameMaker for the Wii U that's directly inspired by ''Mario Paint''.

* GigglingVillain: King Watinga, if you die while fighting him.

* DuelingGames: With Sega's ''Art Alive''.

** ''Mario Maker'' is a GameMaker for the Wii U that's directly inspired by ''Mario Paint''.

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Mario Artist: Paint Studio'', a [[NoExportForYou Japanese-only]] game for the 64DD, which also came with a mouse peripheral.

** Some screens have a cartoon bomb as the exit button. The bomb button lives in the lower-left corner.

* NoPlotNoProblem

Mario Paint (1992) was a painting game for the SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem, featuring Mario. It was the first game to use the SNES Mouse peripheral, and came bundled with it.

* EasterEgg: On the title screen, clicking certain letters would cause certain things to happen, such as clicking the letter "P" to make grass, trees, and a bunch of other objects appear; or clicking the letter "O" to hear Kazumi Totaka's secret song. [[spoiler: The Starmen that also fly across the screen occasionally also contain one, if you're fast enough to click one.]]
* FanRemake: Mario Paint Composer, a PC/Mac expansion of the music creator from the original Mario Paint.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Mario Artist: Paint Studio, a [[NoExportForYou Japanese-only]] game for the 64DD, which also came with a mouse peripheral.
* ThemedCursor / WhiteGloves: The cursor is Mario's white glove.

* ShoutOut: There are numerous references to this game in the ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' series, possibly because both ''[[VideoGame/WarioWare WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!]]'' and ''Mario Paint'' share the same director, Hirofumi Matsuoka:
** The fly-swatter minigame in ''Mega Microgame$'', as a standard quick minigame and a full version.
** In ''Twisted!'', the hardest version of the minigame "Red Delicious?" features the exercising guy who shows up in ''Mario Paint'' between the title screen and the main game.
** In ''Touched!'' 9-Volt has a microgame based off of ''Mario Paint''. ''Touched!'' also has a remix of the main ''Mario Paint'' music.
** D.I.Y. also features a Mario Paint microgame, an EasterEgg involving the Mario Paint music, and the whole graphics editor gives off a Mario Paint vibe.

** D.I.Y. also features a Mario Paint microgame, as well as an EasterEgg involving the Mario Paint music.

* EasterEgg:
** On the title screen, clicking certain letters would cause certain things to happen, such as clicking the letter "P" to make grass, trees, and a bunch of other objects appear; or clicking the letter "O" to hear Kazumi Totaka's secret song.
** [[spoiler: The Starmen that also fly across the screen occasionally also contain one, if you're fast enough to click one.]]
** Hit the SNES reset switch, and play the exercise scene again. You might hear the alternate audio track for the cheering crowd.

* EasterEgg: On the title screen, clicking certain letters would cause certain things to happen, such as clicking the letter "P" to make grass, trees, and a bunch of other objects appear; or clicking the letter "O" to hear Kazumi Totaka's secret song.

* ActionBomb: The bomb-shaped gnats, which tend to flicker and follow the swatter before exploding.

* TheGoomba: The basic gnats who appear first at the very beginning of the game and do not actually attack you.

* ShoutOut: There are numerous references to this game in the ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' series, possibly because both ''[[VideoGame/WarioWare WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!]]'' and ''Mario Paint'' were both directed by Hirofumi Matsuoka:

* ShoutOut: There are numerous references to this game in the ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' series, including:

A painting game for the SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem featuring Mario. It was the first game to use the SNES Mouse peripheral, and came bundled with it.

It is worth noting that the first animated WebOriginal/HomestarRunner cartoon was animated using Mario Paint.

* TurnsRed: Again, Watinga.

* EasterEgg: On the title screen, clicking certain letters would cause certain things to happen, such as clicking the letter "P" to make grass, trees, and a bunch of other objects to appear; or clicking the letter "O" to hear Kazumi Totaka's secret song.

* BigBad: King Watinga.

The game had various activities: making images using brushes, stamps, and patterns; creating animations; creating music (which could be used in the animations); loading pre-defined images to color or edit in any other manner; and creating custom stamps. ''Mario Paint'' also had a well-known minigame called "Coffee Break" in which you had to swat flies to progress through the level, going on forever until you lost all of your lives from getting hit by the flies. This minigame would later be featured in ''[[VideoGame/WarioWare Wario Ware, Inc.: Mega Microgame$]]''.

!!'''Tropes:'''

* EndlessGame: The fly-swatting minigame.

* GigglingVillain: In the fly-swatting minigame the bosses laugh when they kill you.
* MiniGame: "Coffee Break".

* WideOpenSandbox: Nothing you need to do but make art.

'''Tropes:'''