Price and date announced for Super Mario Run on iPhone and iPad

Nintendo has announced release date and price for Super Mario Run on iOS.

This is the first Super Mario Bros. game developed specifically for mobile devices was announced by Shigeru Miyamoto during Apple's press event back in September.

In the game, Mario runs forward on his own, but relies on finger taps to jump over obstacles, avoid enemies, pull off various moves, collect coins and like previous Mario games, reach the flagpole to complete courses.

While the game will be a free download, only “elements” of the game's three modes will be made available for free. USers can pay a one-time payment of $9.99 to provide “unlimited access” to each of the three modes in this release.

Super Mario Run is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices running iOS 8.0 or later, and will be released on December 15 in 151 countries and regions.