Gameplay
Aside from being a basic drawing utility, Mario Paint allowed the user to make custom stamps pixel-by-pixel. Several publications, such as Nintendo Power, released how-to guides on how to create iconic Nintendo related stamps for use within Mario Paint. Besides just creating static pictures, a user could also make simple looping animations which could then be set to music created in the music generator. These animations painted by the user could only be viewed on a television screen, and while instructions were provided to users on how to record these to a video cassette recorder, there was no other way to export any of the work done in Mario Paint.
In addition, standard features consist of:
- 60 different textures and patterns
- 75 different stamps
- 15 customizable stamps
- Battery back-up capability for saving certain aspects of the game
- Nine different special erasers: Fade Erase, Water Erase (the picture becomes a grayscale and then disappears), Timed Erase, Rain Erase, Split Image Erase, Pixelated Erase, Blinds Erase, Rocket Erase, Abrupt Erase.
Read more about this topic: Mario Paint