A port of Mario's Time Machine
The NES port of Mario's Time Machine is very different from the original 16-bit version, having more emphasis on platforming.
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Remember when video games tried to be educational? Mario's Time Machine was that weird history trivia game where Bowser stole stuff. The gameplay was as boring as a textbook, and if I wanted to learn about da Vinci, I'd...well, actually Wikipedia didn't exist yet. Ugh. Let's just pretend this never happened.
Feels like a bad romhack, Mario's Time Machine uses obtuse platforming, meaningless enemies, and extremely bland environments to tell a revisionist history in which Mario discovered the theory of relativity, invented the light-bulb, and...knocked down the Berlin Wall?!? It's a newgrounds flash Mario game without any of the requisite self-awareness. And for that it must pay.
Short, weird and objectively bad game in terme of controls, game design and level design. I did however enjoy it quite a bit for its weird novelty concept and its obscureness. It's so bad and bizarre that it's mysterious and cute in a way. But maybe that's just me trying to justify myself paying way more than I should have on this stupid cartridge.