Mario's Picross (1995)

Developer

Jupiter Corporation, Ape

Publisher

Nintendo

Platforms

Nintendo 3DS, Game Boy

Genres

Puzzle

Rating

3.8 of 5, 24 player ratings

Completionist

about 34 hours

Where to get it

Nintendo eShop

How it feels

A calm, meditative picross puzzler with 256 nonogram challenges where Mario chips away tiles to reveal hidden pictures.

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About

Mario's Picross is a puzzle game for the Game Boy and the first game in the Nintendo-published Picross series. In this game, Mario takes on the role of an archaeologist who chisels away the squares in each playfield. The result is a small picture. There are 256 different puzzles to solve, divided into four courses with increasing difficulty level.

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