Dr. Mario

Dr. Mario
Developer	Takahiro Harada
Publisher	Nintendo
Platforms
Released	1990-present
Added to Museum	See Dr. Mario category

Dr. Mario is a doctor version of Mario. He mainly appears in a series of puzzle video games by Nintendo. These games are spun-off from the Super Mario series.

Character biography

Mario is a doctor that drops pills into a bottle to eliminate viruses.

Four combinations of the same color of viruses and pills will eliminate the viruses.

Each pill has two parts, sometimes with the same color and other times with different colors.

Other doctors in Dr. Mario games

Luigi first became a doctor in Dr. Luigi on Wii U in 2013, wherein the pills that are dropped in his jar sometimes contained an 'L' shape, adding to the complexity.

Other doctors have included Baby Daisy, Baby Luigi, Baby Mario, Baby Peach, Baby Rosalina, Bowser, Bowser Jr., Daisy, Diddy Kong, Donkey Kong, Dry Bowser, Fire Mario, Fire Peach, Kamek, Ludwig, Luma, Peach, Rosalina, Toad, Toadette, Waluigi, Wario, Wendy, and Yoshi.

Video games featuring Dr. Mario

Title	Developer	System	Release	Notes
Dr. Mario	Nintendo R&D1	NES	1990
Dr. Mario	Nintendo R&D1	Game Boy	1990
VS. Dr. Mario	Nintendo R&D1	VS. System arcade	1990
Dr. Mario	Mani Industries	Gamewatch Boy	1993
Tetris & Dr. Mario	Intelligent Systems	SNES	1994	Paired with Tetris. It adds a VS. computer mode and a "Mixed Match" multi-player in which players compete in both games.
Dr. Mario 64	Newcom	N64 iQue Player	2001	Adds a story mode to the single player game. The 2001 Nintendo 64 game was ported to the iQue Player in 2003.
Dr. Mario & Puzzle League	Nintendo SPD Intelligent Systems	Game Boy Advance	2001	Paired with Puzzle League, originally released outside of Japan as Tetris Attack.
Nintendo Puzzle Collection	Nintendo SPD Intelligent Systems	GameCube	2003	A Japanese only release that contains Dr. Mario 64, Panel de Pon and Yoshi's Cookie.
Dr. Mario Online Rx	Arika	Wii	2008	Includes online play. Contains Dr. Mario and Virus Buster, a game from the Brain Age series.
Dr. Mario Express	Arika	Nintendo DSi	2008
Dr. Mario: Miracle Cure	Arika Nintendo SPD	Nintendo 3DS	2015	Contains Dr. Mario, Virus Buster, and Dr. Luigi (the 'Operation L' mode from the 2013 Wii U game).
Dr. Mario World	Nintendo EPD LINE NHN Entertainment	Android	2019	Match-3 freemium puzzle game.