Game Concepts: Dr. Mario

Dr. Mario is more closely related to Columns than to standard Tetris, matching colors and not shapes. But it introduces a completely new element: Instead of clearing the falling blocks themselves, the object is to clear special, previously placed elements.

In Dr. Mario, the well has been replaced with a bottle. In this bottle, there are some germs dancing in place. From the top, two-colored pills fall down. They can be seen as two cells. There are only three different colors. When there are four cells of the same color in a row, they vanish. The other half of the pills then continues to fall down. The germs, just like the pill halves, count as a cell. So the trick is, of course, to pile pills of the same color on top of the germs.

Dr. Mario for DOS
Colors 1.1
Colors 1.1
DoubleLink
DoubleLink
Dr. Rudy
Dr. Rudy
Pharmacy
Pharmacy
Dr. Mario for Windows 3.1
Gelules
Gelules
YATC
YATC
Dr. Mario for Windows 9x
Capsule
Capsule
SmileTris Panic!
SmileTris Panic!
SmileTris 2
SmileTris 2