Super Mario Run

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Super Mario Run

スーパーマリオラン Sūpā Mario Ran

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Developer(s): Nintendo Publisher(s): Nintendo Platform: iOS, Android Category: 2D Platformer Players: 1 Predecessor: N/A Successor: N/A

Release dates Worldwide: iOS: December 15, 2016 Android: March 22, 2017

Ratings ESRB: E PEGI: 3 USK: 0 ACB: G App Store: 4+

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©2016 Nintendo

Super Mario Run is a 2D side-scrolling Super Mario game for mobile devices, and the first mobile game in the Super Mario series. Announced at Apple's September 2016 conference, the game was released on iOS devices first in December 2016, while an Android version was released later, in March 2017. The game launched in over 150 countries worldwide with a free download including some content, while a single payment unlocks the rest of the game.

Blurb

Nintendo website

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A new kind of Mario game that you can play with one hand.

In this game, Mario constantly moves forward through the courses while you use a variety of jumps to navigate. Mario will behave differently depending on the timing of your taps, so it's up to you to show off particularly smooth moves, gather coins, and reach the goal.

World Tour

• Run and jump with style to rescue Princess Peach from Bowser's clutches!
• Travel through plains, caverns, haunted houses, airships, castles, and more...
• Clear 6 worlds filled with 24 brand-new courses designed for one-handed play!

Toad Rally

• Show off Mario's stylish moves, compete against your friends and challenge people from all over the world.
• A challenge mode where the competition differs each time you play.
• Compete against the stylish moves of other players for the highest score as you gather coins and get cheered on by a crowd of Toads. If you’re impressive enough, the Toads may even come live in your kingdom.
• You can also perform stylish moves to fill up your gauge and launch into Coin Rush!
• *In order to play Toad Rally, you will need Rally Tickets that you can acquire in a variety of ways, such as clearing worlds or through bonus games in your kingdom.

Kingdom Builder

• Gather coins and Toads to build your very own kingdom.
• Create your unique kingdom with buildings and decorations that you acquire with the help of Toads gathered in Toad Rally.

App Store

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A new Mario game you can play with one hand!

At long last, Mario jumps into a new adventure on iPhone and iPad, this time playable using only one hand.

Even if this is your first Mario game, you won't be able to put it down!
In this game, you constantly move forward through the courses while using a variety of jumps to navigate. Your character will behave differently depending on the timing of your taps, so it's up to you to show off particularly smooth moves, gather coins, and reach the goal.

Super Mario Run offers three different game modes:
- The first mode features challenging courses for you to complete.
- In the second mode, you challenge the play data of other people's completed courses. You compete to see who can finish the course with the most style!
- In the third mode, you can create your own Mushroom Kingdom using coins collected by playing the first two game modes.

Google Play

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A new kind of Mario game that you can play with one hand.

In this game, Mario constantly moves forward through the courses while you use a variety of jumps to navigate. Mario will behave differently depending on the timing of your taps, so it's up to you to show off particularly smooth moves, gather coins, and reach the goal.

■World Tour
Run and jump with style to rescue Princess Peach from Bowser's clutches!

Travel through plains, caverns, Ghost Houses, airships, castles, and more...

Clear 6 worlds filled with 24 brand-new courses designed for one-handed play!

*Access to all 6 Worlds subject to purchase.

■Toad Rally
Show off Mario's stylish moves, compete against your friends and challenge people from all over the world.

A challenge mode where the competition differs each time you play.

Compete against the stylish moves of other players for the highest score as you gather coins and get cheered on by a crowd of Toads. If you’re impressive enough, the Toads may even come live in your kingdom.

You can also perform stylish moves to fill up your gauge and launch into Coin Rush!

*In order to play Toad Rally, you will need Rally Tickets that you can acquire in a variety of ways, such as clearing worlds or through bonus games in your kingdom.

■Kingdom Builder
Gather coins and Toads to build your very own kingdom.

Create your unique kingdom with buildings and decorations that you acquire with the help of Toads gathered in Toad Rally.

There are over 100 kinds of items in the Kingdom Builder feature!

Gameplay

The game has Mario automatically running through stages to collect as many coins as possible and reaching the goal at the end within a given time limit. While Mario will automatically vault over small enemies and obstacles, the player must tap the screen to properly jump, wall jump, and climb up ledges. The longer the player taps the screen, the higher Mario jumps. Mario gains coins by collecting them on the stage, jumping on enemies, and even jumping onto the Goal Pole at the end of the stage. Each stage also features five Pink Coins, which are worth ten coins; collecting all of them in a stage unlocks a new set of Purple Coins that are more difficult to collect, while collecting all of those unlocks a set of even harder to collect Black Coins. All of the coins the player collects in a stage are added to an overall total. If the player falls off the stage or is hit by an enemy as Small Mario, then they are placed in a bubble and moved to a point before the mistake; the bubble can also be used at any point by tapping the bubble icon at the top of the screen. The player can only use the bubble twice per stage, however, before they fail the stage entirely.

The game feature three different gameplay modes. The main mode is World Tour, featuring a similar structure to a normal Super Mario game, in which players go through worlds of four stages each. In Toad Rally mode, players challenge each others' high scores by playing through a given stage and trying to impress as many Toads as possible. Finally, Kingdom Builder allows players to use the Toads they have gathered and spend their coins on accessories and objects to create their own kingdom. Some of the buildings that can be placed unlock minigames, while others unlock new playable characters, such as Luigi (who can jump higher), Yoshi (who can Flutter Jump), and Toad (exclusively available through My Nintendo). As the player collects more Toads in Toad Rally, their Kingdom will level up and will allow them to purchase additional items in the shop using coins they have collected.

Super Mario Run requires a constant Internet connection to play.

Reception

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Aggregate scores
Metacritic	76
GameRankings	76.23%
Reviews
IGN	8/10
Polygon	7/10
Game Informer	7/10
Destructoid	6/10

Super Mario Run was mostly received well by critics. While the game's gameplay style and controls were mostly praised, some critics and players took issue with the game's requirement for an internet connection and the price point.

According to Tatsumi Kimishima, by March 2017, the revenue earned from Super Mario Run "did not meet [Nintendo's] expectations," attributed to the game using a one-time-pay model rather than the free-to-play model seen in other games, such as Nintendo's later Fire Emblem Heroes.

Technical details

Technical details Media: Digital download (mobile) Download size: 173 MB System requirements: iOS 10.0 or later (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) Android 4.4 or later Input / compatible controllers: Touchscreen

Updates

List of updates
Version no.	Release date(s)	Description
1.0.1	December 20, 2016	Fixes issues with the Friend List, minor fixes.
1.0.2	December 30, 2016	Feature improvements.
1.1.0	January 31, 2017	Adds Easy Mode, adds compatibility with new events, adds Korean compatibility, adjusts Toad Rally so that the player loses less Toads after losing and makes it easier to gain Toads, fixes an issue in which players cannot download the My Nintendo Toad reward again after deleting by allowing players to download it an unlimited number of times, issue fixes.
1.1.1	February 7, 2017	Bug fixes.
1.1.2	February 20, 2017	Bug fixes.
2.0.0	March 22, 2017	Adds new playable characters, allows players to unlock World 1-4 in the free version of the game by completing a challenge, adds additional features.
2.0.1	April 4, 2017	Bug fixes.
2.1.0	April 24, 2017	Increases maximum number of Toads to 99,999, adds new buildings, adds the ability to implement the player's Mii from Miitomo as their icon, allows players to find friends from their Nintendo Account, adds Game Center / Google Play achievements, other changes.
2.1.1	May 23/24, 2017	Fixes a bug with version 1.1.1 that prevents the game from starting and causes a support code message to display.
3.0.3	September 4, 2017	Bug fixes.
3.0.4	September 28, 2017	Adds Remix 10 mode, adds World Star to World Tour mode, adds Daisy as a playable character, adds the ability to listen to music on the device while playing the game, adds additional buildings, adjusts Toad Rally matchmaking so that players are less likely to be matched against a player with a significantly different Toad population.
3.0.5	October 6, 2017	The music application will no longer automatically play music when the app is opened, a Super Mushroom will now appear when players are defeated by Bowser in Remix 10.
3.0.6	iOS: November 1, 2017 Android: November 17, 2017	The game now displays properly on an iPhone X screen, Adds support for devices with aspect ratios up to 2.17:1, fixes an issue preventing players from perfectly clearing a stage, fixes an issue preventing some items from appearing in the Notebook.
3.0.7	January 18, 2018	Fixes an issue in which data would sometimes have to be redownloaded after starting the app, Fixes an issue preventing players from getting a Perfect clear on certain Remix 10 stages, bug fixes.
3.0.8	January 23, 2018	Adds a button to skip the opening tutorial.
3.0.9	March 9, 2018	Adjusts the requirements for unlocking World 1-4 to be easier.
3.0.10	April 23, 2018	Bug fixes.
3.0.11	June 12, 2018	Adjusts ease of gameplay, bug fixes.
3.0.12	January 28, 2019	Bug fixes.
3.0.13	April 3, 2019	Bug fixes.
3.0.14	June 10, 2019	Bug fixes.
3.0.15	July 16, 2019	Bug fixes.
3.0.16	September 9, 2019	Fixes an issue in which the game would close when attempting to connect Bluetooth earphones, bug fixes.
3.0.17	December 19, 2019	Bug fixes.
3.0.19	July 20, 2020	Bug fixes.
3.0.20	September 8, 2020	Bug fixes.
3.0.21	March 16, 2021	Bug fixes.
3.0.23	September 13, 2021	Bug fixes.
3.0.24	December 6, 2021	Bug fixes.
3.0.25	May 16, 2022	Bug fixes.

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