Sonic is Missing!

Mario is Missing! is an educational video game released in 1993 by The Software Toolworks in North America, and Mindscape in Europe for MS-DOS, Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo Entertainment System, while the Macintosh version was released in June 1994. The NES Version was developed by Radical Entertainment.

Plot
Dr. Eggman plots on stealing hairdryers to melt Antarctica and thus flood the Earth. When Sonic is kidnapped by Eggman to prevent his interference, it falls upon Tails to travel around the Earth in order to foil Eggman's schemes and save his brother.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) For the NES and SNES versions, the sprites are literally from mh:awesomegames:Super Mario World, just like Mario's Time Machine, proving the developers were too lazy to make the actual sprites for the NES and SNES versions.
 * 2) * Bowser's NES sprite doesn't even remotely look like the Koopa King himself, but rather an orange Koopa-like creature with horns.
 * 3) The title is not what you would expect from a Mario game. Mario gets captured instead of Princess Peach, and Luigi has to save Mario in this game.
 * 4) The plot doesn't make sense. Bowser intends to melt Antarctica using hairdryers. It could take ages to melt Antarctica using them.
 * 5) Even though this game tries to be educational, there exist a lot of errors and mistakes regarding the countries and landmarks.
 * 6) * The various cities have inaccuracies regarding their names, such as the DOS and SNES versions including Yugoslavia which had dissolved into several countries starting in late June 1991.
 * 7) You just walk in a boring town, which isn't Mario-related. A lot of Mario games take place in Mushroom Kingdom, but Mario is Missing! doesn't belong to that category at all.
 * 8) The controls are broken on the NES version. For example, sometimes when you go to a new screen the controls get stuck for a second. Even pressing them so hard won't make the controls respond. You have to wait until they will start responding.
 * 9) On the NES version, you are supposed to return King Kong to the Empire State Building, which makes no sense, as in the 1933 movie the planes were trying to shoot him down. This is confusing to the people who watched the King Kong movie.
 * 10) (NES version) You can't talk to people when they are at the window, unless you call Yoshi.
 * 11) There are no failure conditions whatsoever. For instance, touching the Koopas won't harm Luigi at all. This also applies to the boss fights.
 * 12) Going up the road on the NES version, you have to be standing right on the dotted line. If you're just a few pixels off, nothing happens.
 * 13) * In other ports, it's more sensible with Luigi and/or Yoshi having to be on the pedestrian crossing.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The music is awful. The SNES version is the best example, as it has much worse music, compared to the computer and NES versions. Suffice to say, the SNES version would be the worst just to listen to the music.
 * 2) Despite being directly taken from that game, it is bad to see Sonic and Tails' sprites from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 thrown into the NES version. They decently fit the console's standards.

Trivia

 * The computer ports have spawned Teiis and Sanic memes, which are part of ITube Poop.

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