Editing Mario's FUNdamentals

|release='''''Mario's Game Gallery'':'''<br>{{flag list|USA|February 23, 1995}}'''''Mario's FUNdamentals'':'''<br>{{flag list|USA|March 3, 1998}}  

Both versions of the game have received mixed reception. Upon its initial release, various publications found it to be a good educational game; ''{{wp|The State (newspaper)|The State}}'' and ''{{wp|The Miami Herald}}'' praised it for "providing fun for the whole family", and the ''{{wp|Los Angeles Times}}'' said that it would appeal to younger gamers. Much later, the game was negatively received by authors David Wesley and Gloria Barczak, who labeled it and the other ''Super Mario'' games manufactured by third-party publishers in the 1990s, which were made without the supervision of [[Nintendo]], as "a flood of ill-conceived ''Mario'' spin-offs" that almost destroyed the ''Super Mario'' brand.<ref>{{cite|author=Wesley, David; Barczak, Gloria|date=2010|title=''Innovation and Marketing in the Video Game Industry: Avoiding the Performance Trap''|publisher=Gower Publishing Ltd|isbn=978-0-566-09167-4|language=en}}</ref>

This game is played with a set of 28 bones or dominoes. Each player gets 7 dominoes at the start, the remaining 14 go into the boneyard. The player who has the highest double goes first and must play that domino. After that players take turns adding a domino to either end of the domino chain such that at least one end of the placed domino matches the value at end of the chain. If a player does not have any matching dominoes, they must draw from the boneyard or pass if there are no dominoes left. It is also possible to draw any number of dominoes before placing one down. The winner is the first player to end up with no dominoes at the end of their turn. If both players are unable to make a move when both still have dominoes left, the winner is the player whose dominoes in hand have the lowest sum of values.

Backgammon is played on a board with 24 triangular points and fifteen pieces for each player on a set placement. The goal is to follow a flipped C-shaped path, with Mario going from bottom to top and the human player top to bottom. One player plays as the Yoshis and the other as the Koopas. When not moving, the Yoshis hide in their [[Yoshi's Egg|eggs]] and the Koopas hide in their [[Green Shell|shells]]. The player to go first is determined by rolling a single die, then starts their turn by rolling two dice. Each die can be used to move a single piece by the number of points shown on the die. The same piece may be moved multiple times in the same turn. A roll with same value on each dice allows for four moves with said value. Only one player's pieces can be on a particular point. A piece cannot be moved if it would land on a point occupied by two or more of the opponent's pieces. Moving to a point occupied by a single opponent piece will cause that piece to go to the bar in the middle of the board. The owner must first bring those back before being allowed to make other moves. Bringing a piece back requires a dice roll that allows a legal move from "point 0" (e.g. a roll of 3 allows a piece to re-enter on the 3-point as long as there are less than 2 opposing pieces there). Once all of a player's pieces arrive in the final 6 points, they can be taken off the board by a die roll needed to move them to "point 25" (e.g. a roll of 4 allows taking a piece off from 21-point). A die roll can also be used to take off the piece furthest from the goal if the highest die roll is higher than the distance of that piece from the goal. A player that cannot make any legal moves ends their turn. The first player to take all of their pieces off the board is the winner.

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