Editing I am a teacher: Super Mario Sweater

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{{game infobox
|image=[[File:Mario sweater.jpg|250px]]
|developer=[[Nintendo]]
|publisher=Royal Kougyou
|platforms=[[Family Computer Disk System]]
|release={{flag list|Japan|August 27, 1986<ref>{{cite|url=www.gamespot.com/games/i-am-a-teacher-super-mario-no-sweater|title=I am a Teacher: Super Mario no Sweater|publisher=GameSpot|accessdate=May 31, 2024|language=en}}{{better source}}</ref>}}
|languages={{languages|jp=y}}
|genre=Miscellaneous
|modes=Single player
|format={{format|fds=1}}
|input={{input|fc=1}}
|serials={{flag list|Japan|ROY-ISM}}
}}
'''''I am a teacher: Super Mario Sweater''''' is a knitting pattern-designing software released for the [[Family Computer Disk System]] on August 27, 1986. Players would input their measurement sizes and design sweaters, adding pictures of famous characters such as [[Mario]], [[Luigi]], [[Princess Peach|Peach]], and [[Bowser]] in the process. It was devised by Royal Industries Co. Ltd., a Japanese appliance and sewing machine company. It is the first of two textile software releases of the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]], the other being ''[[Mario Family]]'' on the [[Game Boy Color]].

Royal Industries Co. Ltd. realized that it could profit from a sweater-design program, which led to the development of this software. The company eventually made a real-life version of the software and sold it for 2,900¥ (about $24 in United States Dollars).<ref>{{cite|deadlink=y|archive=web.archive.org/web/20030810014655/http://www.dojomediaserver.com:80/specials/Famicom/knife_NES-001.html|title=Under the Knife: NES-001|language=en|publisher=Nintendojo|date=August 10, 2003|accessdate=May 31, 2024}}</ref>

One month after the release of ''I am a teacher: Super Mario Sweater'', companion software titled ''I am a teacher: Teami no Kiso'' ("''I am a teacher: The Basics of Hand-Knitting''") was released, which does not feature any ''Super Mario'' characters.<ref>{{cite|url=www.giantbomb.com/i-am-a-teacher-teami-no-kiso/3030-41766|publisher=Giant Bomb|title="I Am A Teacher: Teami no Kiso (Game)"|accessdate=May 11, 2024|language=en}}</ref> The software serves primarily as a knitting tutorial, a feature entirely absent from its predecessor.

==Knitting patterns==
{{Image|Screenshots of all fifteen patterns, ideally also photographs of sweaters made with them}}
The program features fifteen designs, each customizable to the user's measurements.

# A complexly textured sweater.
# A striped sweater.
# A sweater vest.
# A cardigan.
# A sweater with a rabbit design.
# A sweater with a cat design.
# A sweater with a pattern featuring three Mario heads.
# A sweater featuring Luigi.
# A sweater featuring Mario.
# A sweater featuring [[Fire Mario]] throwing a [[Fireball]] while walking on a row of [[Brick Block]]s.
# A cardigan featuring Mario walking.
# A sweater with Mario in the same pose as No. 8, but with the background behind Mario in a different color from the rest of the sweater. (This design is featured on the box art.)
# A sweater vest featuring a repeating [[Goomba]] pattern.
# A cardigan featuring Princess Peach and a [[Piranha Plant]].
# A sweater featuring [[1-Up Mushroom]]s and [[Super Star]]s.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Mariosweaterplaying.png|Mario
Super Mario Sweater Toadstool screenshot.png|Princess Peach
IAmATeacher.jpg|Guide book cover art
Adforiamateachersupermariosweater.jpg|An advertisement for the software
IaatSMS Sweater.jpg|A sweater made with the software
Fire Mario Sweater 1986.jpg|A sweater made with the software
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=アイアムアティーチャー　スーパーマリオのセーター
|JapR=Ai Amu A Tīchā: Sūpā Mario no Sētā
|JapM=I am a teacher: Super Mario's Sweater
|Ita=I Am A Teacher: Super Mario Sweater<ref>{{cite|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|page=239}}</ref>
}}

==References==
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