I find most commercial and homebrew “Spot the Difference” games tremendously unexciting, but this port from Multiple: Option (Game Trivia Catechism, Snatcher Pilot DS) has an interesting history — it’s based on a Nintendo Adventure Books gamebook written by Bill McCoy and published by Archway Paperbacks in 1991.

Mario provides the Monster Mix-Up DS’s introduction:

“Dear Game Player: You are about to guide me through a great adventure. As you read this book, you will help me decide where to go and what to do. Whether I succeed or fail is up to you. At the end of every chapter, you will make choices that determine what happens next.

Special puzzles will help you decide what I should do—if you can solve them. The chapters in this book are in a special order. Sometimes you must go backward in order to go forward, if you know what I mean. […] Good Luck!

Driplessly yours, Mario.”

[Via DCEmu]

tags / multiple option / nintendo adventure books / monster mix-up / homebrew / bill mccoy / ec