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System: NES Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Players: 1-2 Save: None Genre: Platformer

One evening, Mario had a bizarre dream. He climbed up a long staircase and found himself a strange new world. The world was called Subcon, the land of dreams. The evil toad Wart used his magic to lay a curse on the land. A bolt of lighting suddenly split across the sky and Mario woke up to find himself on the floor. He fell off his bed! A few days later, Mario and his friends (Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool) are having a picnic. As they settled to eat their food, they found a small cave. When they entered the cave, Mario's dream had become a reality. Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool set off to free the people of Subcon of Wart's evil magic.

Super Mario Bros. 2 has an interesting history. Super Mario Bros. 2 was originally a game called "Doki Doki Panic" that was released on the Japanese Famicom Disk-System. In Japan, Super Mario Bros. 2 was an extension of Super Mario Bros. with extremely difficult levels. The Japanese version of Super Mario Bros 2 was included in Super Mario All-Stars for the SNES as "The Lost Levels". The Lost Levels are also available in Super Mario Bros. Deluxe for the GameBoy Color. The North American version of Super Mario Bros. 2 was released in Japan in 1992. It was called Super Mario USA. Super Mario Bros. 2 allowed travel backwards through the level for the first time in Mario side-scrollers.

North America: 1987
Japan: 1992
Europe: Unknown

Screeshots: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5

Super Mario Bros. 2 is a solid platformer. Some Mario fans will ridicule it because it doesn't fit in the Mario universe.

Score - 8.0

It's a classic!

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11/24/2003