 Dr. Mario was rated the 134th best game released on a Nintendo system in Nintendo Power 's Top 200 Games list , by ScrewAttack as the seventh best Mario game of all time , and by IGN as the 51st best NES game of all time . IGN also rated the game 's soundtrack , composed by Hirokazu Tanaka , as seventh in its list of the top ten greatest 8 @-@ Bit soundtracks . GamesRadar ranked it the 13th best NES game ever made . The staff called it " one of the most celebrated of the [ puzzle ] genre . " Game Informer 's Ben Reeves called it the seventh best Game Boy game . 
