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Title: "Mario Maniaq": have you ever heard of this game?
Post by: supertombraider on March 05, 2021, 11:26:40 pm
Hello everyone,

While looking through my attic, I stumbled upon a curious game called "Mario Maniaq" edited by Cybergold (for Windows 95-98 and Pentium 75) (I can show you a picture, but I don't know how to attach it to this text).  I remember I tried playing it but never managed to run it on my computer.
Looks very intriguing, it seems like it has Mario-style gameplay despite the front cover depicting an adventurer wielding a lit torch (which is all the more interesting).

Have you ever seen or heard of this game?

Thanks a lot.
Title: Re: "Mario Maniaq": have you ever heard of this game?
Post by: oldgamerz on March 06, 2021, 02:37:06 am
It's not common, just like a lot of old PC games, it's no surprise you can't  get it to work on a modern machine. Most 1990's simply don't work without a 3rd party program to run on a modern machine. I cannot find much or anything about this game. called Mario Mania. only found a book with that title.


 is this called "Super Mario Mania"? or just Mario Mania? the letter q kind of throws me off.

unfortunately I don't know if you will find someone who would buy that, since a lot of PC games to my knowledge are vary hard to get up and running on a new PC. Did you try playing this on an old PC with Windows 98/95 or ME?
Title: Re: "Mario Maniaq": have you ever heard of this game?
Post by: pzeke on March 06, 2021, 10:33:46 am
[...] (I can show you a picture, but I don't know how to attach it to this text). [...]

There are plenty of image hosting websites that are free, some of which you don't even need an account to use, like imgur (https://imgur.com/upload), for example.
Title: Re: "Mario Maniaq": have you ever heard of this game?
Post by: fazerco on March 06, 2021, 01:12:40 pm
[...] (I can show you a picture, but I don't know how to attach it to this text). [...]

There are plenty of image hosting websites that are free, some of which you don't even need an account to use, like imgur (https://imgur.com/upload), for example.

It is a videogame database, so you can add it here on vgc, and put the link in your post.
Title: Re: "Mario Maniaq": have you ever heard of this game?
Post by: dhaabi on March 06, 2021, 01:41:47 pm
I've not heard of Mario Maniaq before, but I did find information (https://twitter.com/taizou_hori/status/1240715818394169350) about it.
Title: Re: "Mario Maniaq": have you ever heard of this game?
Post by: supertombraider on March 06, 2021, 02:05:56 pm
Cool!  Thanks for the reference!  I'll go and take a look...