Nintendo Release Mario Paint after 33 years on the Switch 1 and 2. Let's play the original first.

Nintendo has finally released Mario Paint on the Switch 1 and 2. It will be compatible with an USB mouse on the original Switch. Then you can use the joy cons on the Switch 2. It has been 33 years since Mario Paint first came out. Below is a history of the game and mouse.

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Mario Paint

North American box art
Developer(s)
Nintendo R&D1
Intelligent Systems
Publisher(s) Nintendo
Director(s) Hirofumi Matsuoka
Producer(s) Gunpei Yokoi[1]
Programmer(s)
Noriaki Teramoto
Kenji Imai
Kenji Nakamura
Genji Kubota
Artist(s) Hirofumi Matsuoka
Composer(s)
Hirokazu Tanaka
Ryoji Yoshitomi
Kazumi Totaka
Series Mario
Platform(s) Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Release
JP: July 14, 1992
NA: August 1, 1992
EU: December 10, 1992
Genre(s) Art tool
Mode(s) Single-player
Mario Paint[a] is a 1992 art creation video game developed by Nintendo Research & Development 1 (R&D1) and Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.[2][3] Mario Paint consists of a raster graphics editor, an animation program, a music composer, and a point and click minigame, all of which are designed to be used with the Super NES Mouse peripheral, which the game was packaged and sold with. Per its name, the game is Mario-themed, and features sprites and sound effects that are taken from or in the vein of Super Mario World.

Mario Paint sold very well following its release and is one of the best-selling SNES games, with over 2.3 million copies sold. The game was released to fairly positive contemporaneous reviews; critics highlighted its accessibility, features, innovative design, and educational potential, but criticized limitations on creation that rendered it unviable for serious creation. Retrospective reviews have been more positive, praising the game as "memorable", "addictive", "unique", and "ingenious", and it has been deemed one of the best SNES games of all time. Mario Paint's music composer in particular has been used to create original songs, covers, and remixes using the game's sounds and limitations.

A successor game, Mario no Photopi for the Nintendo 64, was released in Japan in 1998. This was followed by a series, Mario Artist, released for the 64DD peripheral starting in 1999; however, only four titles were released in Japan only before the next game was canceled by 2000. Similar titles and game creation systems released by Nintendo since, such as WarioWare D.I.Y., Super Mario Maker, and Super Mario Maker 2, include features from and references to Mario Paint; Super Mario Maker in particular was originally envisioned as a Mario Paint sequel for the Wii U. The game received its first official re-release on the Nintendo Classics service on July 29, 2025.