Editing Dr. Mario Vitamin Toss

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'''''Dr. Mario Vitamin Toss''''' was an online {{wp|Adobe Flash|Flash}} game published by [[Nintendo]] to advertise ''[[Dr. Mario & Puzzle League]]'' for the [[Game Boy Advance]]. It was available to play on the game's official website,<ref>''Atomic Kote'' (June 7, 2018). [https://atomickote.com/2018/06/07/nintendo-flash-games/ Nintendo's Forgotten Flash Games]. Retrieved June 24, 2018.</ref> as well as in the [[Nintendo Arcade]] section of nintendo.com.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070911004647/http://www.nintendo.com/arcade Nintendo Arcade]. ''Nintendo.com''. September 11, 2007 snapshot, archived via Wayback Machine.</ref>{{dead link}} The game departs from the [[Genre#Puzzle|puzzle]]-driven gameplay of the ''[[Dr. Mario (series)|Dr. Mario]]'' series, but nevertheless still has in view defeating [[virus]]es using [[Megavitamin]]s.

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There are three viruses—blue, yellow and red—which [[Dr. Mario]] has to defeat by draining their corresponding vials using Megavitamin pills. To decrease the fluid inside a vial, he has to throw a pill of the same color.

 

At the top of the screen, there is a "Toss Meter" with colored spots that reflect the positions of the vials. To throw a pill somewhere, the player has to initiate a sliding cursor on the Toss Meter, then stop it over a certain spot. If the cursor lines up with a spot of a certain color, Dr. Mario lands a pill into the corresponding vial. The fluid decreases if the pill matches its color, otherwise it increases or stays unaffected when the vial is already full. If the cursor is stopped on a blank space in-between the colored spots, Dr. Mario misthrows a pill outside the vials.

 

Four pills are necessary to drain all the fluid inside a vial and defeat the corresponding virus, though the virus can be revived if the wrong pill is tossed in its vial afterwards. To win the game, all three viruses need to be dead at the same time. The end screen shows the time it took the player to beat the game and offers them to replay it or visit the "''Dr. Mario / Puzzle League''" website.

 

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