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The Drafting Table

The Drafting Table was an activity that was part of the Lab Flash game on the Luigi's Mansion microsite on Nintendo's North American website. This section of the lab serves as Professor Elvin Gadd's workshop…

31 December 2001

The Drafting Table is a video game, released 31 December 2001 on Web browser.

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What The Drafting Table is

The Drafting Table was released in 2001. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Web browser only. It runs on Adobe Flash Player.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Drafting Table was an activity that was part of the Lab Flash game on the Luigi's Mansion microsite on Nintendo's North American website. This section of the lab serves as Professor Elvin Gadd's workshop where makes his inventions to catch ghosts. However, the main attraction is for the player to create their own masterpiece with "creepy colouring-in templates". There is also a photo album laying on the desk with some ghosts enjoying their vacations at different countries far from the mansion.
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How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Mario series

The Drafting Table is the 257th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was PolterCue in 2001.

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What it launched against

The Drafting Table launched on 31 December 2001, within three weeks of Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams, Ikaruga and Sonic Advance.

Released around the same time: Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams, Ikaruga, Sonic Advance.

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When did The Drafting Table come out?
The Drafting Table was released on 31 December 2001 for Web browser.