Mario Clock

Mario Clock
Developer	Nintendo Software Technology Corporation
Publisher	Nintendo
Platform(s)	Nintendo DSi, Nintendo 3DS
Release date	Nintendo DSi (DSiWare): Template:Release Nintendo 3DS (eShop): Template:Release[?]
Genre	Educational
Rating(s)	ESRB: - Everyone CERO: - All ages
Mode(s)	Single player
Input	Nintendo DS: Gamepad Stylus Nintendo 3DS: Gamepad

Mario Clock is a DSiWare alarm clock application styled after Super Mario Bros., released in 2009 for 200 DSi Points. It is also available on the Nintendo 3DS eShop for $1.99 (USD). Up to three alarms can be set to play Mario-related music. For each alarm, the player can set its volume, overriding the system volume, and whether to snooze, automatically cycling between one minute of alarm and four minutes of silence for an hour. Alarms will only work while Mario Clock is open, but they can play while the system is placed into sleep mode.

The clock can be set to analog, 12-hour digital, and 24-hour digital display modes. The application also shows the current date, day of the week, and battery charge; when the system is on low power, the graphics tint red.

Craig Harris of IGN was extremely critical of Mario Clock, saying it is "not worth even the budget 200 points." He mainly criticized the application's uselessness in comparison to Mario Calculator, and stated that "to have these two as individual 200 point downloads instead of combining them into one is just flat-out greedy." Harris called the gameplay "mostly stupid, pointless, and completely unnecessary, but at the very least it's sort of funny to see the numbers on the clock scatter when you hit a POW block."

Reviews
Release	Reviewer, Publication	Score	Comment
DSiWare	Corbie Dillard, Nintendo Life	4/10	"It's tough to criticize anything that features our beloved Mario, but as with the previous clock applications for the DSi you have to wonder what the point is in releasing a separate clock program, especially one that has to be launched in order to be used when there's a perfectly suitable clock on the DSi main menu that pops up as soon as you start up your DSi system. Sure, the Mario theme is cool and the ability to actually have some interaction with the experience makes it a bit more practical than the Animal Crossing Clock, but ultimately it's still not enough. Maybe at some point Nintendo will wise up and allow DSi owners to put these themed clocks on their DSi main menu screen, but until then, you'd be better off using the 200 Nintendo Points for something a bit more useful and fun."
DSiWare	Craig Harris, IGN	3/10	"I'm really hoping this is the last time I have to review something from the DSiWare store that's existence is absolutely pointless. I've already gone through the whole song and dance with the Animal Crossing Clock, and luckily Lucas agreed with me when he was put to the task of reviewing the Photo Clock, but now the same thing has to be said one more time: Mario Clock, not worth even the budget 200 points. The Mario Calculator is much more worthy of the premium, though there'd be far less room to complain if Nintendo just combined the two instead of making them individual purchases. Would it have killed you, Nintendo, to give us two things for the price of one?"
Aggregators
Compiler		Platform / Score
Metacritic		N/A
GameRankings		35.00%

Staff

• Megumi Kurata
• Yoshinori Katsuki
• Masaaki Sugino
• Taiju Suzuki
• Tetsuya Sasaki

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ニンテンドーDSi時計　ファミコンマリオタイプ[?] Nintendō DSi Tokei Famikon Mario Taipu	Nintendo DSi Clock Famicom Mario Type
Chinese	iQue DSi时钟　红白机马力欧款[?] iQue DSi Shízhōng Hóngbáijī Mǎlìōu Kuǎn	iQue DSi Clock Famicom Mario Edition
German	Mario-Uhr[?]	Mario Clock
Italian	Orologio di Mario[?]	Mario's Clock

External links

• Official American Website (Wayback Machine Archive)
• Official Japanese Website
• Official Chinese Website