page_title: Mario's Cement Factory
section_title: Reception
hierarchical_section_title: Mario's Cement Factory / Reception
caption_attribution_description: English: Mario's Cement Factory (Tabletop) - Game&amp;Watch - Nintendo
context_page_description: Mario's Cement Factory is a 1983 LCD game developed and published by Nintendo under their Game & Watch series. It follows earlier Mario games, like the arcade and Game & Watch versions of Donkey Kong. The player controls Mario as he navigates elevators and funnels cement through a factory, while trying to prevent the cement from crushing his fellow workers. Two versions of the game were released — one being a tabletop unit and the other being a handheld game akin to most other Game & Watch titles.
  Development was headed by Nintendo R&D1, led by engineer Gunpei Yokoi. Sound effects were produced by Hirokazu Tanaka. A clock is also present on the system, much like other Game & Watch units. The game has been re-released several times, including as part of Game Boy Gallery for the Game Boy, Game & Watch Gallery 4 for the Game Boy Advance, and as a digital download for the Nintendo DSi.
  Critics have described it as one of the strangest games in the Mario franchise.
context_section_description: 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", and another praised its replay value. Staff for the magazine Video Games regarded it as a more difficult game than many games before it.
  It has also been called primitive by the standards of today, and one review of the DSiWare release complained that the controls were too "picky and precise".
  The game has been called one of the stranger entries in the Mario series. One outlet called it "kind of gruesome" since factory workers can be killed by overflowing cement. Another said the game reflected Mario's working-class roots. 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.
caption: The Table Top version
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