Mario Artist (lost builds of unreleased Nintendo 64DD games; 1999-2000)

A screenshot of Mario Artist: Paint Studio.

Status: Lost

Mario Artist is a series of Mario-Paint style games for the Nintendo 64 Disk Drive (better known as 64DD, an add-on peripheric to the Nintendo 64 console). While four of these games were released in Japan, four more games remain unreleased.

Four games were released between 1999 and 2000 in the Mario Artist series: 

• Mario Artist: Paint Studio 
• Mario Artist: Talent Studio
• Mario Artist: Communication Kit
• Mario Artist: Polygon Studio

However, there remain four more games that were never given a release.

The Unreleased Games

Mario Artist: Game Maker would have most likely been a game that let players create their own games to save, share, and play later. This game's idea would later be used in the game Super Mario Maker for the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, as well as its sequel for the Nintendo Switch.

Mario Artist: Graphical Message Maker could have been a variety of things. Players might have been able to paint messages and send them to other players, but since it has such a vague title it could have been a variety of things.

Mario Artist: Sound Maker would have probably been a game where players could manipulate sounds and sound effects.

Mario Artist: Video Jockey Maker could have been a variety of things. It is not quite certain what the title could mean in terms of gameplay.

It could be presumed that creations could be linked up and shared via the Communication Kit in the same manner as the other games.

To this day, no playable demos or screenshots have appeared on the elusive titles.

See Also

Nintendo 64DD

• Nintendo 64 Disk Drive (partially found unreleased video games for Nintendo 64 add-on; late 1990s-early 2000s)

Mario Series

• BS Super Mario Collection (partially lost Satellaview broadcast versions of compilation platformer; 1997-1998)
• Mario's Castle (lost build of cancelled game on Nintendo's "Project Atlantis" handheld console; existence unconfirmed; 1995-1998)
• Mario Demo (lost Virtual Boy tech demo; 1994)
• Mario's Face (lost Nintendo DS tech demo; 2004)
• Mario Motors (lost build of unreleased Nintendo DS racer; early 2000s)
• Mario Kart XXL (lost Game Boy Advance tech demo; 2004)
• Mario Takes America (lost build of cancelled Philips CD-i edutainment game; 1992-1994)
• New Super Mario Bros. (lost early builds of Nintendo DS 2D platformer; 2004-2006)
• New Super Mario Bros. Mii (lost Wii U tech demo; 2011)
• Paper Mario: Sticker Star (partially lost E3 2010 trailer of 3DS game in the Paper Mario series; 2010)
• Super Mario 128 (lost build of cancelled GameCube/Wii game; 2000-2006)
• Super Mario 64 (partially found Spaceworld '95 demo of Nintendo 64 3D platformer; 1995)
• Super Mario Bros. 3 (lost Japanese prototype of NES platformer; 1987-1988)
• Super Mario Bros. (lost Commodore 64 port of NES platformer; existence unconfirmed; 1986)
• Super Mario Disk Version aka "Super Mario 64DD" (found unreleased Nintendo 64DD port of 3D platformer; 1999)
• Super Mario Galaxy (lost beta builds of Wii platformer; 2006-2007)
• Super Mario Kart R (partially found pre-release version of "Mario Kart 64"; 1995)
• Super Mario RPG 2 (lost pre-release version of "Paper Mario" Nintendo 64 role-playing game; late 1990s)
• Super Mario Spikers (lost build of cancelled Wii volleyball-wrestling sports game; 2007)
• Super Mario's Wacky Worlds (found prototype of cancelled CD-i game; 1993)
• Super Mario World: Mario Attack (lost Japanese arcade game; 1996)
• Super Mario World (partially found early build of Super Nintendo platformer; 1989)
• Super Paper Mario (lost build of unreleased original GameCube version of Wii side-scrolling platformer; 2006)