Super Mario appeared in many genres over the years, including educational. I personally didn't play any of the titles, since I grew up with a Nintendo 64 system, rather than a Nintendo Entertainment System or a Super Nintendo. I heard all but terrible things about Mario Is Missing!, as well as Mario's Time Machine. Have you played any of these educational games as a youngster?
I made the ill fated mistake of playing Mario is Missing on my SNES. The box and title are very decieving. The box shows Mario being drug off by Bowser with Luigi looking frantically and the back of the box tells you Bowser has stolen artifacts from our world and locked Mario in his castle in Antartica and it's up to Luigi and Yoshi to save Mario and the world. You think "that sounds cool. I'm in" And then you release Mario tricked you into a geography lesson. The bad guys don't hurt you. Luigi goes through a door, talks to a few people to figure out what city he's in. Calls Yoshi to help him move faster and move Pokey from the pipe. Then you run around collecting stolen artifacts from Koopas to return them to the info booths where Peach is working (or at least her sprite) then she quizes you on the location. If you answer questions right you get a sovenier photo. Answer wrong and she yells at you.
When you finish a room, a koopa kid comes out (only Roy, Lemmy and Ludwig) but just runs around the room and you bop him on the head a few times and like the koopas, they don't hurt you. You don't even fight Bowser, just watch a cutscene where Mario and Luigi fire him out of a cannon.
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