[Played on the Retron 5 with the original cartridge]

Dr. Mario is a pretty good puzzle game. It's relatively easy to get into and it gets really difficult the farther you get into it. Even at those hardest points and at your worst of chokes it's always possible to salvage your run. On all fronts this is a well designed and entertaining puzzle game on the NES. The only thing holding this back for me is that there are much much better puzzle games on the NES like Tetris and Yoshi's Cookie and Wario's Woods. With games like those I have little reason to ever go back to this one because I vastly prefer those. I know it's kind of a bad move to judge the game based on other games rather than its own individual strengths and weaknesses, but it's something that's always on my mind when I play.

Worth the buy but not the best puzzle game you can pick up.