What is Hotel Mario?
Q: What is Hotel Mario?
A: Hotel Mario is a puzzle game developed by Fantasy Factory and published by Philips Interactive Media and Nintendo for the CD-i in 1994.
Q: What is the objective of the game?
A: The primary character, Mario, must find Princess Toadstool by going through seven Koopa hotels in the Mushroom Kingdom. The player must close all doors on each level, and killing a Koopaling on the hotel's final level takes the player to the next building.
Q: What did Nintendo allow Philips to do?
A: After Nintendo decided not to have Philips create an add-on for the Super NES, they gave Philips permission to use five of their characters in games for Philips' CD-i.
Q: Were the games developed using proper funding and time?
A: There wasn't a lot of time for the games to be developed and there was little funding.
Q: How were the games received?
A: The games resulting from the license were widely criticized, with Hotel Mario being known as one of the worst Mario-centered games.
Q: Why was Hotel Mario known as one of the worst Mario-centered games?
A: It was known for the animation of the shutting doors, the non-working controls, and especially the cutscenes that used full motion video.
Q: What happened to the CD-i and its games?
A: The CD-i was considered a commercial failure and the games became valuable because of their rarity.
