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-'''''Mario's Cement Factory''''' is a [[Game & Watch]] game. Two versions of the game were produced: The first was for the Game & Watch Table Top released on April 28, 1983,<ref name=TT/> and the second was a more conventional New Wide Screen Game & Watch that was released on June 16, 1983.<ref name=NWS/> ''Mario's Cement Factory'' was the first game in the Table Top series. The Table Top game resembles an arcade cabinet, and it is more colorful than the New Wide Screen game. In both versions, [[Mario]]'s mission in the [[Cement Factory]] is to open doors to prevent cement containers from overflowing. To get to the different containers, Mario has to jump onto moving [[platform]]s. The New Wide Screen version was rereleased as a [[Mini Classics]] game and is featured in the [[Museum|Gallery Corner]] in ''[[Game & Watch Gallery]]''. It is also featured as a [[minigame]] in ''[[Game & Watch Gallery 4]]'' with a Classic version and an updated "Modern" version.
+'''''Mario's Cement Factory''''' is a [[Game & Watch]] game. Two versions of the game were produced: The first was for the Game & Watch Table Top released on April 28, 1983,<ref name=TT/> and the second was a more conventional New Wide Screen Game & Watch that was released on June 16, 1983.<ref name=NWS/> ''Mario's Cement Factory'' was one of the first games in the Table Top series. The Table Top game resembles an arcade cabinet, and it is more colorful than the New Wide Screen game. In both versions, [[Mario]]'s mission in the [[Cement Factory]] is to open doors to prevent cement containers from overflowing. To get to the different containers, Mario has to jump onto moving [[platform]]s. The New Wide Screen version was rereleased as a [[Mini Classics]] game and is featured in the [[Museum|Gallery Corner]] in ''[[Game & Watch Gallery]]''. It is also featured as a [[minigame]] in ''[[Game & Watch Gallery 4]]'' with a Classic version and an updated "Modern" version.
 ''Mario's Cement Factory'' also appears as one of the minigames in ''{{wp|Game Boy Gallery}}'', though it is simply called '''Cement Factory''' and features no characters from the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]], and the playable character is the same unnamed character seen in the other minigames.
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 MCF Alarm Bell.gif|Alarm bell (New Wide Screen)
 Mario's Cement Factory commercial.png|[[Mario]] in the Table Top version's TV commercial
-MCMNWSSMarioSprite.png||A sprite of Mario
 G&WG4 Driver.png|A sprite of the [[driver]]s
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 *[[Super Smash Bros. (series)|''Super Smash Bros.'' series]]: [[Mr. Game & Watch]] has an attack that involves him grabbing opponents with a similar pose to how Mario grabs levers in this game.
 *''[[Rhythm Heaven Fever]]'' and ''[[Rhythm Heaven Megamix]]'': Mr. Game & Watch appears in [[rhythmheaven:Working Dough|Working Dough]], where he is posed similarly to the lever-grabbing animation from this game.
+*''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'': While cutting through a work site in [[Brooklyn]], Mario and Luigi pass by a sign that depicts a construction worker stylized after the drivers in this game.
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 |caption3=The jingle, slowed down and pitch-shifted to match the song's tempo and pitch, combined with the song itself
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-*This is the second modern mode to have both Mario and Toad's miss mark pictures in the same game after Manhole. Unlike Manhole, you play as Mario in this.
 *Early models of the Table Top version of ''Mario's Cement Factory'' used a slightly faster rearrangement of the bass riff from "{{wp|Another One Bites the Dust}}," a song released in 1980 by the British rock band {{wp|Queen (band)|Queen}}, for the game start jingle.<ref>{{cite|author=Old80s: Retro Stuff And More|date=January 15, 2020|title=Game & Watch: Mario's Cement Factory (Table Top, CM-72) (Another One Bites The Dust) (1983 Nintendo)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ygFCJM8wN8|publisher=YouTube|language=English|accessdate=May 14, 2022|archive=https://web.archive.org/web/20240606155233/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ygFCJM8wN8}}</ref> This was replaced in a later revision with an original jingle.<ref>{{cite|author=Old80s: Retro Stuff And More|date=January 21, 2022|title=Game & Watch: Mario's Cement Factory (Table Top, CM-72A) (Alternate) (1983 Nintendo)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHXnPJ9fPCs|publisher=YouTube|language=English|accessdate=May 14, 2022|archive=https://web.archive.org/web/20240810004619/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHXnPJ9fPCs%20CM-72A}}</ref> An update of this jingle reappears in the ''Game Boy Gallery'' version.<ref>{{cite|author=All Nintendo Music|date=November 18, 2019|title=GameBoy Gallery Complete Soundtrack|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yH1yr2rgMQ&t=560s|publisher=YouTube|language=English|accessdate=May 14, 2022|archive=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330224720/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yH1yr2rgMQ}}</ref>