e-Reader support. Nintendo held a competition in Japan in which cards were distributed to 1,000 winning participants. Five level cards were released by CoroCoro Comic, and another card was given away at the 20th World Hobby Fair. The game can save up to 12 extra levels. Reception Mario vs. Donkey Kong received "favorable" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. GameSpot named it the best Game Boy Advance game of May 2004. It received a runner-up position in GameSpots 2004 "Best Puzzle/Rhythm Game" award category across all platforms, losing to Katamari Damacy. On March 16, 2007, IGN listed it as #25 in their list of the top 25 Game boy Advance games of all time, calling it "a great game that fits the Game Boy Advance's pick-up-and-play environment since players could whip out the system, solve a puzzle, and put it away for later." The game sold 1.37 million copies worldwide. Limited re-release On July 28, 2011, Nintendo announced that Mario vs. Donkey Kong, as well as nine other Game Boy Advance games, would be available to Nintendo 3DS owners who purchased their systems before the August 11, 2011, price cut via Virtual Console as part of the ambassador program. This offer is available in all territories, and only to those who became eligible in the Ambassador program (by accessing the Nintendo eShop before the date of the price-cut). Although the game was released on December 16, 2011, to Ambassador users, Nintendo never released it to the general public in paid form on Nintendo 3DS unlike the Wii U version, which later released in 2017. Notes References External links Mini Mario Toy Papercraft at IRP Papercraft 2004 video games Mario vs. Donkey Kong Donkey Kong platform games Game Boy Advance games Nintendo Software Technology games Video games developed in the United States Virtual Console games Virtual Console games for Wii U Virtual Console games for Nintendo 3DS Single-player video games