Is Mario Clash on Steam?

No. Mario Clash is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.

What platforms is Mario Clash on?

Mario Clash is available on Virtual Boy.

When did Mario Clash release?

Mario Clash was first released on September 28, 1995.

Mario Clash

Sep 28, 1995PlatformArcadeVirtual Boy

Mario Clash — frequently asked questions

Is Mario Clash on Steam?: No. Mario Clash is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.
What platforms is Mario Clash on?: Mario Clash is available on Virtual Boy.
When did Mario Clash release?: Mario Clash was first released on September 28, 1995.

About Mario Clash

Mario Clash is the first 3D stereoscopic Mario game released for the Virtual Boy. The game is a return to the style of the original Mario Bros. To progress through the game, Mario must knock enemies off platforms using Turtle Shells. There are always two Koopas; if one gets knocked off, another one takes its place. Many enemies need to be hit from the side, thus Mario must throw shells from the background to the foreground and vice-versa in order to knock them off.

Summary via IGDB.

Mario Clash on Wikipedia

Mario Clash is a 1995 action video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Virtual Boy. It is the first stereoscopic 3D Mario game, and a 3D reimagining of Mario Bros. Reception for the game was mixed.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

Game details

Platforms: Virtual Boy
Developer: Nintendo R&D1
Publisher: Nintendo
Game modes: Single player
Themes: Action
Series: Mario
Official site: Visit

Details via IGDB.

Collector value & authenticity

Virtual Boy · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-08-22

Loose

$59

Complete

$143

Sealed

$550

Release record

Territory	Date	Serial	Barcode	MSRP
Japan	28 Sep 1995	VUE-VMCJ-JPN	4902370502275	¥4,900
North America	30 Sep 1995	VUE-VMCJ-USA	045496770020	$39.95
Mexico Gamela México	—	VUE-VMCJ-USA	045496770020	—
Brazil Playtronic Industrial Ltda.	—	VUE-VMCJ-USA	7896273602804	—
Japandemo	—	—	—	—

Mexico: Substitutes a Spanish instruction booklet rather than adding one — Mexican packaging varies by title.

Community score: 68/100
Region: JP+NA
Released: 1995
Authenticity: Low

On Nintendo Switch Online since Mar 10, 2026 — the cartridge is now a collectibleLow counterfeit risk

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Mario Bros. rebuilt so the two planes of the arcade original become literal depth. Smarter than it gets credit for.

Take the 1983 Mario Bros. — single screen, knock enemies over from below — and split it across a foreground and background wall so you throw shells into the screen at enemies on the other plane. It is one of the few Virtual Boy games where the 3D is the aiming axis rather than decoration. Its harsh rating is really about structure: a single-screen arcade game in 1995 had aged out. It is better in short doses than the score suggests.

How it was made

Nintendo developed and published it under the working title Mario Smash, and it was originally planned as the pack-in game for the North American console — a decision later reversed in favour of Mario's Tennis.

Nintendo's own product numbering still carries the fingerprint of that plan. Its North American Virtual Boy barcodes run in one unbroken block, 045496-77001 to 77011, and Mario Clash holds 77002 — the second slot allocated on the entire platform — despite shipping after two titles numbered above it. The sequence records what Nintendo intended, not what it released.

What the press said at the time

Electronic Gaming Monthly #78	January 1996	7.1/10
GameFan Vol. 3 #11	1995	73.5/100
Weekly Famicom Tsūshin #356	1995	24/40
GamePro	March 1996	3.3/5
Game Zero	1995	14.5/25

It charted in six of Nintendo Power's seven reader-voted Virtual Boy polls, peaking at third.

Cartridge & preservation record

Cartridge ROM capacity 8 megabit (1 MB), measured from the preserved cartridge image.

Cartridge data from the No-Intro preservation database (metadata only — names, sizes and checksums, no game data).

Worth knowing

The Japanese copy is the same ROM, and it costs more. Mario Clash is one of five Virtual Boy titles Nintendo shipped to North America without rebuilding the software — ROM preservation catalogues it as a single English dump covering Japan and the USA, so the two cartridges are byte-identical. It is also one of only two titles where the Japanese copy trades ABOVE the American one, alongside Virtual Boy Wario Land. Whatever explains that premium, it is not a difference in the game: the explanations that usually apply — more content, a better version, a translation — are all ruled out by the dump. The one pattern left standing is that these two are the platform’s only Mario titles.

Before you buy

A rare inversion — the Japanese copy costs more than the American one, so buy domestic. No source explains why; the only pattern in the data is that the platform's two Mario-franchise titles are also its only two Japanese-premium titles, which points at collector demand rather than scarcity. A Japanese demonstration version also exists.