'Dr. Mario World' will make a new generation of virus-killing addicts

[Joystiq]

Was anyone really asking for a mobile Dr. Mario game? That was my immediate thought when Nintendo announced

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, its new free-to-play mobile title for iOS and Android, which launches on Wednesday July 10th.

Then I realized Nintendo would be crazy not to capitalize on phones for an addictive new puzzler.

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, the company's first mobile game, was

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. Pokemon Go was a worldwide phenomenon, and even though Nintendo only had a partial stake in it,

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. The bigger question, really, is why did it take so long to resurrect Dr. Mario on smartphones?

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