Super Mario Bros & Friends: When I Grow Up

This MS-DOS release from 1992 is part of the "When I Grow Up" educational coloring line that used the Super Mario Bros. characters, presented here in CGA graphics. Rather than a game in the conventional sense, software of this type was a digital coloring book aimed at young children, letting them fill Nintendo-themed pictures with colour on the PC.

The CGA specification places it squarely in the era of limited four-colour PC palettes, and such educational tie-ins were a common way to put popular licences in front of the family-computer market. Beyond that framing I can't responsibly detail its features, but it's an artifact of early-1990s edutainment more than a traditional Mario title.