You can now play Super Mario Run on iPhone

The long-awaited day has arrived for Nintendo maniacs: the new Mario game for smartphones, Super Mario Run, is now available, but only on the App Store, for iPhone and iPad.

That September 7, while the iPhone 7 was presented , the attendees were astonished to see how Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of the franchise, took the stage to present what was to be the next offspring of the saga Exclusively for AppleAlready then he explained that the game was intended to be played with one hand, and that the basic premise was that Mario never stopped running

It was advised that the game would not be available until December 15th, and since then, the The wait has been eternal, and thousands of users around the world have dedicated themselves to contemplating that “let me know” in the App Store, waiting to get a message when the game is available. During the day of today, that notice will arrive so that they and the rest of the users of iPhone you can enjoy the expected game.

Initially Super Mario Run is free, but only for first levels In order to unlock higher stages you will have to pay up to 10 euros Another feature (a bit disappointing) of Super Mario Run is that Internet connection required for your enjoyment, so only the brave with a generous data rate will dare to play it outside From home.The rest, taking advantage of the Wi-Fi at home or work. For the rest, we have a jplatform game in the purest style Mario, simple but not necessarily easy The expertise required to pass the level will be enough to keep us hooked to the screen phone for a few hours.

Nintendo Launches

The big unknown in the world of mobile gaming was why Nintendo had not joined this new and lucrative reality that is the development of games for smartphonesNintendo, who has been the great champion of portable consoles, since the Game Boy to the various versions of Nintendo DS, maintained an enigmatic silence these years and continued to develop games for its platforms, turning deaf ears to a trend that was growing unstoppably.Its success is such that, if there has been a video game that has caused a furor in 2016 it has has been Pokemon Go, and is a video game created exclusively for mobile

Apart from knowing the reasons, both for their original silence and their breakup , the important thing is that now Nintendo is here to stay A lack of knowing numbers of downloads, the forecast is overwhelming, and we're just talking of users of iPhone, which in Spain are barely 10% of the total of users of mobile phone. If the game were to open to Android, the fever could surely reach massive levels

For now, let's just take a few hours home from work and enjoy that world premiere of Super Mario Run. Do you already have it? What do you think?