133 · SUPER MARIO BROS. 2
This time it's a fierce action-packed battle to free the land of Subcon from the curse of the evil Wart. It's up to you, along with Mario, Luigi, Toad and the Princess, to fight your way through bizarre multi-level worlds and find him! This time you've got a brand new kind of power - plucking power - and now anything you find can be a weapon. But beware! You've never seen creatures like these! Shyguys and Tweeters! Ninji and Beezos! And you've never had an adventure like this! Only cunning and speed can save you now...
SHOW NOTES
Super Mario Bros. 2 Gameplay
Doki Doki Panic
Super Mario Bros. 2 Japan
Super Mario All-Stars (SMB2)
BS Super Mario USA Power Challenge
Super Mario Advance
Super Mario Bros. Super Show (Mouser Clip)
The Story of Super Mario Bros. 2
Show notes
- Mario’s Back! Bigger and Badder than ever before!
- Introductions
- Let’s get it all out of the way
- Super Mario Bros 2 JAPAN is pretty much just a harder SMB 1...and we may eventually play that for the show. BUT NOT TODAY
- Today we’re playing Doki Doki Panic...okay but not really
- Gameplay
- The Characters
- Mario - Jump Farthest
- Luigi - High Jump
- Peach - Float
- Toad - Fast
- Many characters of Super Mario Bros. 2 have been assimilated into the greater Mario universe as well, such as Birdo, Pokeys, Bob-ombs, and Shy Guys.
- The Jump
- Holding down for a super jump?
- No more squash, fight by throwing
- Backtracking allowed
- Vertical Emphasis - Subcon
- Strange Moments
- The Key with the masks
- The door to the other side
- The eagle head that opens up after you defeat birdo (WHICH ATTACKS IN THE FINAL LEVEL)
- WARPS
- Game Over but you can Continue
- Birdo
- Boss Fights
- But does it feel like a Mario game?
- POW blocks from Mario Bros
- Sparks from DK Jr
- The crab guy acts like DK?
- The Characters
- It was all a dream...Maybe?
- The Music is GREAT! Better than SMB 1...I said it
- Development
- The sequel prototype is based on two cooperative players lifting and throwing each other, lifting and stacking objects, and scrolling the screen upward — a design too complex for the Famicom hardware and with dissatisfying gameplay.
- This then became Doki Doki Panic
- Which then became SMB 2 in the USA
- Sequels and Spinoffs
- Eventually released in Japan as the remastered Super Mario USA for All-Stars
- BS Super Mario USA Power Challenge
- Satellaview, mostly the same. Only start with Mario and some voice dialogue
- Super Mario Advance
- First GBA game!
- The Super Mario Advance version of Super Mario Bros. 2 includes several new features such the addition of the enemy Robirdo, a robotic Birdo, replacing Mouser as the boss of World 3; the addition of the Yoshi Challenge, in which players may revisit stages to search for Yoshi Eggs; and a new point-scoring system, similar to that used in the aforementioned BS Super Mario USA Power Challenge.
- Reception
- over seven million copies sold and is the fourth highest-selling game ever released on the Nintendo Entertainment System.
- EGL
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