Mario is Missing! (Super NES)
Electronic Gaming Monthly (October 1993)
Mario Is Missing is an educational adventure game that was released for the Super NES in 1993. The Super NES had been released in 1991 so this was still pretty early in its life. It was unique in a variety of ways including being a relatively rare game that stars Luigi, being an educational game on a console, and being a Mario/Luigi game that was also released on other platforms.
The plot of this game is that Mario has been kidnapped by Bowser and you, as Luigi, must find him. There's also an evil plot by Bowser that must be stopped. He plans to melt Antarctica by using hairdryers.
Electronic Gaming Monthly (October 1993)
In order to rescue Mario, Luigi must travel the world solving geography based puzzles. You must return stolen artificats by ansering questions about local landmarks and history. Bowser is trying to sell these artifacts to pay for the hairdryers. Seems like it would be easier just to steal the hairdryers... Locations include such places as Cairo, Paris, New York, Mexico City, and Tokyo among others.
This is essentially a point-and-click adventure game with an educational emphasis. The goal is to teach basic geography and history to a younger audience and is an early example of "edutainment". It was meant as competition for games like Carmen Sandiego.
Those expecting anything resembling a traditional Mario game will be disappointed. As an educational game it's just ok. There isn't a whole lot of fun mixed in with the pointing, clicking, and answering questions.
This history of this game is somewhat interesting though. Nintendo did not develop this game but instead licensed the characters to The Software Toolworks who originally created this game for DOS based computers. Shortly after, it was ported to the Super NES and NES and then later on the Macintosh and Windows.
As a game for younger players it isn't bad but the Carmen Sandiego games are better. There isn't much in the way of replayability and it really isn't something adults today would find very interesting, even for nostalgia. Younger kids today could still enjoy it though...at least for one play through.
Images above are from the Super NES version of the game with the ad being from the October 1993 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly.
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Bro, I think I played this game, when I was a kid on a NES emulator, I'm not sure, but the game was the same, it used Luigi as the main character and I had to walk through a city and I remember I could enter several houses, there wasn't a trace of Mario.
A game that has a different theme to the other games of that time, where Mario was always the Hero and Luigi the secondary, well here the tables were turned. Good Post!
a great nostalgic mario game that had luigi as the main character, a character that has always been great, Luigi the best