
Everyone knows video games make people stupid. I mean I played them throughout my childhood and I have a 4.1 GPA, so obviously something must be done. Back in 1993 they decided to combine the most popular character in gaming (no not Bubsy, Mario) with educational content. The result was a giant failure, the game wasn't much fun and the educational content was lacking as well.

I'm not 100% sure on the story, something about Bowser kidnapped Mario (I guess the princess was on the rag that week) and had his minions steal famous treasures from the real world, such as the Golden Gate Bridge's fog horn and Big Ben's big hand. I'm not an expert on the black market, but I don't think there's much demand for a giant fucking clock hand.
Anyway, you play as Luigi and you travel through various real-life locations, like Chicago, London (not the cool London, the England one), and Sydney. If you ever wanted to run through a poorly recreated New York as Luigi, this is the game for you.

So the educational value of the game is very minimal, it's really more useless trivia than anything. I've never needed to know when the Parthenon was built, they should have made this game about the quadratic formula or accounting or something. Mario Gets Audited would be much better than this piece of dog shit.

The graphics are ok, they mostly just ripped the sprites from Super Mario World and added some generic buildings. The music is half good and half crap, the control is ok but the menu navigation is horrible, and there's absolutely no replay value whatsoever. The questions don't change, so once you know the answer you aren't going to be challenged. Not that regurgitating information that was just fed to you 3 seconds earlier is challenging. Protip: Try playing it without reading the pamphlets, it adds a bit of difficulty and makes it much more fun. I will admit that the game is tolerable in small bursts, and I do have a bit of nostalgia towards it. Nonetheless, stay far far away from this game.
Overall: 2/10 - Next time Mario can stay the fuck Missing.