One of Nintendo’s most artistic SNES video games is now on the Switch

Last night time, Nintendo quietly added Mario Paint to Nintendo Switch Online’s catalog of Super Nintendo video games. Originally launched again in 1992, Mario Paint was a singular SNES title, as a result of though it included a handful of minigames, it was at the beginning a artistic instrument letting gamers draw, paint, animate, and even compose music utilizing the 16-bit console.

What additionally set Mario Paint aside from different SNES video games was that it didn’t depend on the console’s commonplace gamepad. It got here bundled with a two-button mouse and a plastic mouse pad that made drawing and navigating the sport’s on-screen menus and drag-and-drop interface a lot simpler.

Alongside Mario Paint being added to the Switch’s SNES catalog, Nintendo has enabled mouse assist for the Switch’s SNES app, which is appropriate with video games like Mario’s Super Picross and Nobunaga’s Ambition. On the unique Switch, gamers can join a appropriate USB mouse to play Mario Paint, whereas on the Switch 2 the Joy-Con 2 controller’s mouse performance can be utilized.

The firm additionally just lately added 19 tracks from Mario Paint to the Nintendo Music cell app, together with the three pattern compositions accessible within the recreation’s music sequencer.