While trying to close the doors, the player must avoid certain hazards. The screens are also used to enter hotel levels that were already played and the map of the Mushroom Kingdom, which allows the player to access any visited hotel.

Every stage has its own title screen, which is how the game can be saved. The amount of points the player gets in the game will depend on how fast they can beat the level. Elevators, which work differently depending on the hotel, let the player to go between the five floors of the level. The game does not show how to shut the doors. The player to shut every door before time runs out to get to the next level. The first six hotels contain 10 levels, and the last 2 hotels contains 15 levels. The player has to complete all levels of the seven hotels in the game. The player controls Mario or his brother Luigi in two-player mode. The CD-i was considered a commercial failure and the games became valuable because of their rarity. The games resulting from the license were widely criticized, with Hotel Mario being known as one of the worst Mario-centered games, due to the animation of the shutting doors, the non-working controls and especially known for the cutscenes that used full motion video. There wasn't a lot of time for the games to be developed and there was little funding. After Nintendo decided not to have Philips create an add-on for the Super NES, they gave Philips permission to use five of their characters in games for Philips' CD-i. Killing a Koopaling on the hotel's final level takes the player to the next building.

Every hotel is divided into many levels, and what the player must do is close all doors on each level. The primary character of the game is Mario, who must find Princess Toadstool by going through seven Koopa hotels in the Mushroom Kingdom. Hotel Mario is a puzzle game developed by Fantasy Factory and published by Philips Interactive Media and Nintendo for the CD-i in 1994.

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