{"id":118076,"date":"2020-09-16T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/09\/nintendo_shares_mariors_super_picross_tutorial_as_the_game_arrives_on_switch"},"modified":"2020-09-16T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T13:30:00","slug":"nintendo-shares-marios-super-picross-tutorial-as-the-game-arrives-on-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/16\/nintendo-shares-marios-super-picross-tutorial-as-the-game-arrives-on-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Shares Mario\u2019s Super Picross Tutorial As The Game Arrives On Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/98dabb93ad370\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/98dabb93ad370\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\"><\/aside>\n<p>One of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/09\/nintendo_expands_its_switch_online_snes_and_nes_service_with_four_more_titles\">four new games available on the Nintendo Switch Online service<\/a> today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/marios_super_picross\"><strong>Mario&#8217;s Super Picross<\/strong><\/a>, a puzzle game that launched for the Super Famicom back in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>This is actually the first time it&#8217;s ever appeared in the US; European fans were lucky enough to try it out through the Virtual Console service on Wii U and 3DS, but otherwise, it&#8217;s only ever been seen in Japan. As such, Nintendo&#8217;s released a tutorial for the game for anyone struggling to understand what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve played any Picross games before you&#8217;ll instantly feel at home, but for those who haven&#8217;t, the video above goes through the basics of chipping away at each stage. It&#8217;s all about keeping a close eye on the numbers at the top and left-hand-side of your puzzle, as these indicate how many squares can be knocked away in each column or row.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Mario's Super Picross\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/98dabb93ad370\/marios-super-picross.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/98dabb93ad370\/marios-super-picross.original.jpg\" alt=\"Mario's Super Picross\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>We&#8217;d argue that Picross can be a fantastic way to pass the time, especially when it doubles up as a quirky Mario game that only originally launched in Japan. If you haven&#8217;t already, make sure to check it out when you next get the chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the four new games available on the Nintendo Switch Online service today is Mario&#8217;s Super Picross, a puzzle game that launched for the Super Famicom back in 1995. This is actually the first time it&#8217;s ever appeared in the US; European fans were lucky enough to try it out through the Virtual Console [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}