to CD-i owners. Hotel Mario has since been described as one of the worst Mario games. IGN'''s Levi Buchanan said that while it was superior to Philips' The Legend of Zelda games, closing doors was not "a strong enough hook for an entire game", and J.C. Fletcher of Joystiq ridiculed the plot: "Apparently Bowser has nefariously plotted to have his underlings open doors in ... his own hotels, thus wasting air conditioning and increasing his own electric bill. Mario and Luigi must heroically latch all the doors and save their archenemy from having his hallways get too cold." GamesRadar described it as "craptastic", and Eurogamer as "little more than a really rubbish version of Elevator Action". The controls have been criticized as unresponsive. The cutscenes have been widely criticized. 1UP.com described them as "outright terrifying", and IGN called them "abysmal", resembling "a bad flip-book of images printed out of Microsoft Paint". Joystiq described them as "amateurish, garishly colorful, shaky, randomly zooming animation". The voice acting was also criticized; both 1UP.com and IGN found Mario voice actor Marc Graue's performance ill-fitting for the character and lacking the playfulness of Mario's current voice artist Charles Martinet. Danny Cowan of 1UP wrote: "Mario sounds more like someone's ex-smoker grandpa trying to imitate a Mafia hit man... The dialogue is meant to sound playful, but the character voices imply acts of menace and hate." In 2008, IGN named Hotel Mario one of the ten worst Mario games. In 2017, GamesRadar ranked Hotel Mario'' 48th on their "The 50 Worst Games of All Time" list. Notes References External links 1994 video games CD-i games English-language-only video games Video games developed in the United States Nintendo CD-i games Mario puzzle games Video game memes Multiplayer and single-player video games Internet memes introduced in 2007 Video games set in hotels