Mario's Time Machine (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

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Published on September 18, 2018 6:32:26 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnZ5PukOf_k

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Mario's Time Machine (1993)

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Duration: 21:29

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A playthrough of Software Toolworks' 1994 edutainment game for the NES, Mario's Time Machine.

Mario's Time Machine was one of the many officially licensed Mario titles to be neither developed nor published by Nintendo in the mid-1990s. Like Mario is Missing! and the Mario Early Years titles, Mario's Time Machine is an educational title for young kids.

The game focuses on teaching kids about historic events through Mario style gameplay. For each area, Mario has to duck down a pipe and take out of few Koopa Troopers in a Mario Bros. arcade style minigame. Doing this will provide you with an "artifact" that you then have to return to the appropriate time period. You can access the different times by jumping into the pipe, and you learn which items go where by reading the hints strewn throughout each area.

Each of the different time periods feature short stages that feel like super-simplified Mario World stages. Enemies can't kill you so there's no risk of a Game Over, so the only thing you have to worry about is dropping the right item in the right place in order to get Bowser and save Yoshi.

As a game for kids, it's surprisingly well done. The Mario mechanics are copied well, and the hint boxes do contain a fair amount of useful information. The graphics are simple but bright and clean, and there are some Mario tunes sprinkled throughout.

It requires a fair amount of reading, so its geared somewhat toward late elementary school age kids, but I could see an 8-year-old in the 90s enjoying this and learning something from it.

It's short and missing a lot of content from the PC and SNES versions, but for what it is, it's really not bad at all.
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