Mario's Early Years! Fun with Numbers

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Mario's Early Years! Fun with Numbers
Mario's Early Years! Fun with Numbers - Front Cover (DOS)
MS-DOS version
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SNES version
Developer The Software Toolworks (Mindscape)
Publisher The Software Toolworks
Platform(s) MS-DOS, Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Release date MS-DOS:
USA 1993[1][2]
Europe 1993[3]
SNES:
USA September 1994[4]
Language(s) English (United States)
French (France)
German
Genre Educational
Mode(s) Single-player
Format
Super NES:
Game Pak
Home computer system:
Optical disc
Input
Super NES:
Home computer system:
Serial code(s) SNS-YR (SNES)

Mario's Early Years! Fun with Numbers (known as Mario Teaches Sums for the United Kingdom's IBM-PC release[5]) is an educational game intended to teach numbers and basic geometry and sorting to children. It was released for the MS-DOS in 1993 and SNES in September 1994, following Mario's Early Years! Fun with Letters and preceding Mario's Early Years! Preschool Fun. Mario's Early Years! Fun with Numbers takes place on a set of islands where Mario and Princess Peach can sail to. The player can click one of the islands to enter, after which the player sees Luigi asleep. Once the player clicks him, they have to participate in various learning activities.

Islands

  • Number World: The player attempts to find the numbers and click them to advance to the next level. This island is a series of city-related locations.
  • Counting World: The player attempts to click objects in Mario's Bedroom and Mario's Kitchen to learn to count.
  • Comparing World: The player attempts to find an object (i.e "find the medium-size swing" or "find some water") to learn about things to compare; this island features a park.
  • How Many World: The player attempts to click the item with a number to increase their ability to count i.e. "Find the 8 peanuts in the bag", or "Find the four whiskers". This island features a zoo.
  • Shape World: The player must click on a given shape when directed to do so.
  • Same and Different World: Given a set of items, the player must select the one that is least related to the others.
  • Sorting World: The player attempts to pick the item that is similar to something (i.e "Pick a triangle").
  • Sing Song World: A world where nursery rhymes/children songs are reenacted with the Mario cast. They are the aforementioned Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, If You're Happy and You Know It, The Alphabet song (A song recalling the letters of the English alphabet to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star) and It's Raining, It's Pouring.

Console differences

The SNES version of the game is generally the same as the PC edition, but with some differences due to reduced space.

  • Options to turn off music/sounds/voice clips, randomize the questions or show text in worlds that have it were removed.
  • The help screen with tips on how to continue learning outside of the program was removed.
  • Yoshi was added as a third playable character.
  • Various background graphic differences.
  • Like its predecessors, Sing Song World was removed.

Staff

Main article: List of Mario's Early Years! Fun with Numbers staff

Gallery

Screenshots

Box art

Miscellaneous

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning Notes
French Mario apprend à compter[?] Mario learns to count
German Marios Rechenkünste[?] Mario's calculation skills

References

  1. ^ "Mario's Early Years Preschool Fun (music, counting, colors and shapes), Mario's Early Years Fun With Numbers (numbers, counting and math), Mario's Early Years Fun With Letters (alphabet and pre-reading), and Mario's Time Machine (history) are all scheduled for release during the fourth quarter." – October 1993. Electronic Games Volume 2 Issue 1. Decker Publications (English). Page 11.
  2. ^ December 1993. Working Mother. McCall Publishing Co. (English). Page 72.
  3. ^ "Mario a disparu, Mario à l'école, Mario apprend à compter, Mario et la machine à remonter le temps. Disponible sur PC. (Mario is Missing!, Mario's Early Years! Preschool Fun, Mario's Early Years! Fun with Numbers, Mario's Time Machine. Available on PC.)" – November 1993. Tilt Volume 119. Editions Mondiales S.A. (French). Page 75.
  4. ^ Old Games List (PDF). Nintendo. Retrieved May 6, 2024. (Archived September 17, 2012, 02:25:21 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
  5. ^ Supper Mario Broth (October 5, 2018). "In the UK, the educational PC titles "Mario's Early Years: Fun with Letters" and "Mario's Early Years: Fun with Numbers" were released as "Mario Teaches Words" and "Mario Teaches Sums", respectively; presumably to tie them in with Mario Teaches Typing.". X. Retrieved May 6, 2024.