2026-06-02 · retro-review
Mario's Picross (1995) — Picture Logic, a Form Born in 1987
Released for the Game Boy on March 14, 1995, Mario's Picross translated into play the 'picture-logic puzzle' that two inventors had independently created in Japan eight years earlier. From newspaper puzzle to game, and on to today's Steam nonograms, this is the lineage of a single logic puzzle that survived almost half a century without changing its core.