Reception and Legacy
Mario Paint was rated the 162nd best game made on a Nintendo System in Nintendo Power's Top 200 Games list.
The first cartoon (although not Flash like the rest of the series) of Homestar Runner was animated using Mario Paint. A primitive Mario Paint made introduction video can be found in the museum of the site. A later short in the series, Strong Bad is a Bad Guy, was made using Mario Paint.
Mario Paint has been inspirational for developers. Masahito Hatakeyama, one of the designer for WarioWare D.I.Y., cites Mario Paint's drawing and music creation tools as inspiration for the drawing and music creation tools in D.I.Y., while several staff members of the development team cited it as the game that taught them the joy of developing video games. One of the sound staff from Mario Paint, Hirokazu Tanaka, later went on to work on EarthBound. Some sound effects and musical instruments were used in both games.
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