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Dr. Mario (Actual NES Capture) - Level 20 Clear

3,891 views · Published 26 December 2016 · 7:32 · Indexed 14 October 2026

Channel: WatchmeplayNintendo · 2016 · Gaming

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This is a capture of me playing Dr. Mario for the NES.  This is not an emulator and was not played on the Wii U Virtual Console.  This footage was recorded directly from my front-loading NES using a real Dr. Mario cartridge.

My prior NES puzzle game footage was recorded years ago with a crappy Dazzle capture card, so I decided to replace those recordings with some higher-quality 60 fps captures.

Back in the early '90s Nintendo began publishing a bunch of puzzle games following the incredible success of Tetris.  These titles included Dr. Mario, Tetris 2, Yoshi, Yoshi's Cookie and Wario's Woods.  My mother was a puzzle game fanatic back during this time, so she picked up all of these games except for Wario's Woods.  I can't remember when exactly, but my mother may have picked up Dr. Mario around 1991.  It was definitely one of her favorite NES games.

Dr. Mario isn't my favorite NES game, but it's still excellent, as is the music.  I didn't play this game too much by myself as a kid, but I did enjoy playing the battle mode against my mother.  Also, I still remember the whacky witch doctor commercials that Nintendo aired for this game.  It was definitely one of the more popular NES games.

For this video I completed Level 20 on a medium speed setting.  I'm by no means a puzzle game expert, so that's why I'm not playing a high speed setting.

Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and a composite connection at 60 frames per second.  I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to upconvert the NES's native 240p signal to 480i so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal.

I'm using a standard NES controller.

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