One of Software Toolworks' many Mario edutainment titles. The game starts of by showing Mario running in the fields. After a while the "Mario's Early Years" logo appears. Soon Luigi, Peach and Yoshi appears as well. It appears that Software Toolworks wasn't granted access to Nintendo's own library of Mario graphics so they had to make their own. Therefore the sprites of Mario & Co looks a bit weird. Not at all like we are used to see them. Just look at the menu screen below for an example. (As you can se on the title screen the side view sprite of Yoshi is taken from directly from Super Mario World. Why they only used that, sprite I don't know).
   After that you are transported to the menu. Here the various exercises are presented by different islands. Mario, Yoshi and Peach appears on a raft, at the bottom of the screen. When you click on e.g. the island with peanut bags you are transported to a course that is taking place inside a circus-tent. 4 different peanut bags appear and your are instructed to "pick the one peanut back with 10 peanuts". When you do that, Luigi feeds the Elephant with them.
    Although there are exceptions, most of the courses are built up like the one i mentioned before. Luigi tells Mario to find e.g. the animal who makes a certain sound, the correct number of fishes or "the item that doesn't belong".
    Another odd feature is the "faked voice": When you're told to e.g find the ball, the text "find the ball" appears on the screen. At the same time a weird voice says the same sentence. The problem is that this vioce resembles of the "voice" of your wingmen in Star Fox, just a little too much. To put it in other words: It's extremely difficult to hear what the voice is saying. It's a pitty, because otherwise the voice could have made this game a bit more fun to play. Now it's only a very annoying extra feature.

The menu screen.
 

Mario must find "the thing that doesn't belong" (the tree).
 

Mario has got 10 fingers just like everyone else...