game Donkey Kong). The first revision of the tabletop version is notable for playing a brief excerpt of the Queen song Another One Bites The Dust whenever a new game is started. In later revisions of the game, this excerpt was replaced with a generic melody. Re-releases Mario's Cement Factory has been re-released in various forms. It was included in the 1995 Game Boy Gallery for Game Boy, featuring updated graphics. It was also re-released in the Nintendo Mini Classics line, which repackaged Game & Watch games in small Game Boy-like devices. Both the New Wide Screen and an updated version were included in the 2002 Game & Watch Gallery 4 for the Game Boy Advance. In 2009, the game was re-released for the Nintendo DSi's DSiWare download service (along with other Game & Watch games). The DSi version was released in Japan on August 18. It was released in North America and Europe in March 2010. The DSi version was also given as a reward on Nintendo's now-defunct Club Nintendo service. Reception Mario's Cement Factory has been called one of the best Game & Watch games, and praised for its relative complexity. One critic called it fun, another an "old favorite", while another praised its replay value. Staff for the magazine Video Games regarded it as a more difficult game than many before it. Yet, it received some criticism; it has been called primitive by the standards of today, and one review of the DSiWare release complained that the controls were too "picky and precise". It has been called one of the stranger entries in the Mario series. Mario's role as a cement factory worker has been mentioned in multiple articles that cover the array of professions Mario has undertaken. The original units have become collector's items and, like many Game & Watch titles, a complete-in-box unit can sell for over US$100. The game was featured in a Gunpei Yokoi exhibit in Harajuku in 2010. Notes References DSiWare games Game & Watch games 1983 video games Video games developed in Japan Handheld electronic games Cement Factory