YMMV / Dr. Mario

• Awesome Music:
  • Fever. It's not the most iconic song in the series for nothing, being tailored to puzzle solving.
  • Chill. In contrast, this song really amplifies the severity of the virus outbreak that has to be dealt with.
  • Vs. Victory. Who knew that a battle of doctoring could prove to be so triumphant?
• Friendly Fandoms: With Tetris, since both games are the quintessential puzzle games and are both connected with Nintendo. There's also a lot of overlap with Panel de Pon, since both games are published by Nintendo.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The comic artist Yves Bourgelas once drew a hypothetical joke scenario of what might happen if the Mario Kart series doesn't stop adding Mario and Peach clones, which just so happened to include a baby version of Dr. Mario. Dr. Mario World now has an actual Dr. Baby Mario.
  • In WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!, Wario runs a modified version of Dr. Mario as an ambitious Back-Alley Doctor. Come Dr. Mario World, this ambition becomes a reality after 16 years!
• Just Here for Godzilla: Many fans tend to know and play Dr. Mario 64 because it has characters from the Wario Land series (specficially Wario Land 3) involved in the game's plot, which is a rarity for the Mario franchise.
• Memetic Mutation: Has a spot on the franchise's memes page.
• Nightmare Fuel: As usual, here we have the Game Over music. It starts off in a chilling way and then it merely gets worse. This is not helped by the viruses laughing at the player and Dr. Mario shrugging his shoulders while looking sad.
• Polished Port: The Game Boy version of the original game. Literally the only thing that puts it below the other versions is the lack of color, which makes it slightly more difficult to discern between the different virus & mega-vitamin types under certain lighting conditions. The Game Boy has a monochrome screen, so instead of using colors to denote the Viruses & Mega-Vitamins, it uses 3 different shade formats. Yellow becomes white, red becomes black, and blue becomes dithered gray. When playing the game with a back-light, or on an emulator, telling them apart is easy. It's not easy however when you're playing the game on the original Game Boy in a well lit environment, where the shades can get easy to mix up. Barring this, the Game Boy Version is faithful to the NES original and has solid gameplay.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: "Fever" for "Lady Madonna" by The Beatles, "Chill" for "St. Thomas" by Sonny Rollins. As well as the main title theme for "Sherry" by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
• Ugly Cute: For a bunch of little disease-spreading creeps who laugh at the player when they lose, the viruses are actually considered cute by fans.
• Unexpected Character: Dr. Mario World was one hell of a character-clone magnet during its run, more so than Mario Kart ever was, just due to the absurdity of the character selections, as well as just how many clones of Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy and Rosalina there were. The game not only included Fire Mario and Fire Peach as characters, but also the baby versions of those five too (one could argue this was common practice at this point). And then the game includes characters that are normally enemies in the mainline games, such as Dry Bowser, Dr. Goomba Tower (who barely qualifies as a doctor since it's just three Goombas blatantly wearing a baggy coat), side characters from other games like Nabbit (whom, at the time, had only been playable in New Super Luigi U), Dr. Dolphin (representing the ally species of Dolphins that first appeared in Super Mario World, and then only appeared sporadically in spin-off games), and even characters that were once forgotten about, such as the bizarre inclusion of Baby Wario, who has been M.I.A. since his debut in 2006's Yoshi's Island DS. At this point, the game has firmly established just how crazy it was willing to go for its gacha character roster.

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