{"id":26575,"date":"2026-03-06T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=26575"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:03:37","slug":"hello-mario-switch-1-2-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/06\/hello-mario-switch-1-2-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello, Mario! (Switch 1 & 2, Mobile)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Nintendo has just started a new line in the US called My Mario.\u00a0 It\u2019s a bunch of toys and games geared towards babies and toddlers and their parents.\u00a0 Some of the items include Mario themed wooden toy blocks, which are cool because they also act as amiibo.\u00a0 I wish I could get them, but right now they\u2019re just exclusive to the Nintendo stores in New York and San Fransico, and I won\u2019t be going to those places any time soon.\u00a0 There\u2019s also other toys like Fischer Price Little People playsets (which still look cool), apparel, plush toys, and videos.\u00a0 Another item in the line is a free \u2018game\u2019 you can download on the Switch and Switch 2 and mobile devices called Hello, Mario! (reviewed here on Switch 2).\u00a0 It\u2019s a simple activity where your child can interact with Mario\u2019s face and stretch and mold it to do funny things.\u00a0 So yeah, they basically made a game out of Super Mario 64\u2019s title screen!<\/p>\n

Anyway, when you turn on the game, you can tap and drag Mario\u2019s face anywhere on the screen to make it look funny and do silly things.\u00a0 Move around his eyebrows, mustache, hat, and more.\u00a0 Use two fingers to stretch his ears out and he\u2019ll stick out his tongue!\u00a0 Stretch out his mouth and he\u2019ll try and talk.\u00a0 Sometimes items will fall down for you to play with, too, like sunglasses or a comb.\u00a0 Spin Mario around and he\u2019ll get dizzy.\u00a0 Spin him more and he\u2019ll bounce around and you can pop bubbles (pop 100 for a special victory message). On the top left corner of the screen is a question block with a menu you can open to do other fun things.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what all you can do:<\/p>\n

The Mario icon lets you play peek-a-boo with Mario.\u00a0 The question block lets you tap it and get a lot of coins.\u00a0 The mushroom will make Mario big when you drag it to him.\u00a0 The star turns Mario invincible and you can do the spinny game with him like that.\u00a0 The pipe brings out 3 pipes at the top and you must guess where Mario is.\u00a0 The Blooper will squirt ink on Mario when you tap it.\u00a0 The Note Block changes the background music and Mario will even sing along a bit.\u00a0 It cycles from the Mario theme, underwater theme, and Super Mario World title theme.\u00a0 And last is Toad, and he\u2019ll take a picture of Mario and you have three seconds to make him do a funny face.\u00a0 And that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

After around ten minutes of this, Mario will get tired and they\u2019ll play the piranha plant lullaby theme and he\u2019ll go to sleep.\u00a0 But you can just restart the game again.\u00a0 This game has been out in Japan for a few months and they\u2019ve even added Yoshi to it there.\u00a0 I wonder if they\u2019ll do that here?\u00a0 Anyway, even though there\u2019s not much to Hello, Mario, it is free and very cute so if you\u2019re curious it won\u2019t hurt to download it.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing very violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 You can stretch Mario\u2019s face around, but he doesn\u2019t seem to mind too much.\u00a0 You can spin him around and hit bubbles and sometimes they have enemies in them like Goombas and Bob-Ombs, but they just fly off the screen when hit.\u00a0 No reading is required, and of course this game is designed for the very young.\u00a0 Hello, Mario is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nintendo has just started a new line in the US called My Mario.\u00a0 It\u2019s a bunch of toys and games geared towards babies and toddlers and their parents.\u00a0 Some of the items include Mario themed wooden toy blocks, which are cool because they also act as amiibo.\u00a0 I wish I could get them, but right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26577,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26575\/revisions\/26577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}