Gameplay The player playing backgammon against Mario, one of multiple games available. Official Nintendo Magazine listed it as one of the rarest Mario games as well. Since their releases, both versions have received mixed reception while publications such as The State and the Los Angeles Times found the game to be a good educational game, authors David Wesley and Gloria Barczak blamed it in part for almost destroying the Mario brand. Players play against Mario in these games, which play similarly to their real world counterparts, though with themes based on the Mario universe. The game includes five traditional games: checkers, backgammon, Go Fish, dominoes, and ' yacht', a version of Yahtzee. It was also developed by Brainstorm Entertainment. It was later re-released as Mario's FUNdamentals for Macintosh in 1996, and for Windows in January 1997, though it was published by Mindscape for the DOS and Windows versions and by Stepping Stone for the Macintosh version.
It was released in 1995 in the United States. Mario's Game Gallery (later re-released as Mario's FUNdamentals) is an American compilation of games published by Interplay Productions and developed by Presage Software, Inc.
