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Mario Artist: Talent Studio

In Mario Artist: Talent Studio, the player can create their own characters in 3D, customizing features such as hair, skin, and eye color, voice, clothes, facial features, and body size and type. The process is…

23 March 2000

Mario Artist: Talent Studio is an arcade developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development, released 23 March 2000 on 64DD.

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What Mario Artist: Talent Studio is

Mario Artist: Talent Studio is an arcade game developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development and released in 2000. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on 64DD only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In Mario Artist: Talent Studio, the player can create their own characters in 3D, customizing features such as hair, skin, and eye color, voice, clothes, facial features, and body size and type. The process is similar to Nintendo's later Miis, but much more detailed. The characters can then be inserted into movies and animations. Events during these movies can be controlled by pressing the Z-trigger. Images from external video can be imported using the Capture Cartridge.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Mario series

Mario Artist: Talent Studio is the 216th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Mario Artist: Communication Kit in 2000.

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What it launched against

Mario Artist: Talent Studio launched on 23 March 2000, within three weeks of Thief II: The Metal Age, MDK2, Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death and Rollcage Stage II.

Released around the same time: Thief II: The Metal Age, MDK2, Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death, Rollcage Stage II.

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When did Mario Artist: Talent Studio come out?
Mario Artist: Talent Studio was released on 23 March 2000 for 64DD.

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