Launching this summer on iOS and Android
The just-delayedMario Kart Tourisn’t the only Nintendo title coming to mobile devices this summer. In the briefest of announcements, the company revealedDr. Mario Worldfor iPhone and Android.
The doctor is in! Mario puts on the white coat once again in the mobile game Dr. Mario World, targeting an early summer 2019 global release.#DrMariohttps://t.co/DTRBympHj0pic.twitter.com/RfMZbbs3Mp
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica)July 25, 2025
Dr. Mario Worldis a “new action puzzle game” co-developed by Nintendo andLINE along with development and operation support fromNHN Entertainment. (Yes, that LINE.) It’ll be a “free-to-download” release subsidized by in-app purchases, with an initial launch in “early summer 2019.”
I don’t seeDr. Mario Worldsetting the world on fire, but it’s easy to picture how the classic puzzle hijinks could lend well to mobile devices. Like all of Nintendo’s mobile experiments, I’ll at least scope it out.
Two other stray observations: 1) the originalDr. Mariofor NES is the same age as me and I’m not okay with hearing that fact, and 2)the viruses on the box artare weirdly unnerving. Little creeps.
Nintendo Announces Mobile Game Partnership with LINE Corporation and a New Game for Smart Devices[Nintendo]
