Yeah, The Lost Levels just feels like a terrible romhack of Mario 1, and while it is true that Mario 2 was a reskin of Doki Doki Panic, what people seem to forget is that it always has been a Mario game during it's development, but then some TV show that Japan had happened which was why it became Doki Doki Panic in the first place. Then by the time when it was time for America to have a Mario 2, and since The Lost Levels would be way too difficult for American players, they turned Doki Doki Panic back into a Mario game like it was intended.
Fun fact, but Nintendo of America decided not to release the Japanese Super Mario Bros 2 in America because of one employee. The employee was a hardcore gamer, and when they gave him the game to try it out he _hated_ the game. Despite the success of the NES and Super Mario Bros 1, Nintendo was still being extremely cautious about the North American video game market because of the Crash of 1983, and they felt that if a guy who loved video games hated a game so much then it was too risky to release the game in America.
0:12 Out of nowhere, Mario became super, and the HP meter suddenly glitches. If you play the prototype version, press Select, and you see that the life meter suddenly glitches. More info: themushroomkingdom.net/smb2_proto.shtml The ROM: tcrf.net/Proto:Super_Mario_Bros._2_(NES) My screenshot matching 0:12: imgur.com/a/0eePWC7
This background music was also used in a Spanish ad for Super Mario Bros. 3. It's most likely intended to be production music similar to the stuff used by Killer Tracks.
I think it was a smart decision to revamp DDP into SMB2. By 1988, the graphics of NES games had improve drastically over the first gen games. SMB2 in Japan was just a harder, more frustrating SMB1, and it wasn't developed by Miyamoto, who was making Zelda at the time. And from what I understand, Miyamoto supervised the conversion and added some elements to make it more accessible, as he usually does. Overall, I think they made the right choice.
0:12 do u see the messed up health bar ? it means they shows a BETA version of SMB 2 for more infomrmations , type "Super Mario Bros 2" on the RUclips search engine and ... find !
I remember thinking how great this game was going to be after seeing the commercial, and was disappointed when I played it, and it wasn't anything like the original super mario. Still a great game, I was like 8 when it came out, then 3 came out, and that was the bee's knee's to every kid, everywhere. Still this brings me back.
I don't believe that for a second. Because as someone from back then, that's not how Mario 2 was received by anyone. There WAS no "formula" for Mario becuase as far as we knew there was only 1 game. So everyone assumed this was a natural evolution of Mario, and everyone was blown away by how you could actually ride enemies, go vertical and horizontal, how you could have four characters, pick up things, and throw things. Everyone back then actually saw this game as everything Mario used to be plus more and that's why it was so successful. So you sound to me like one of those people that didn't grow up with this game and is just trying to use information everyone knows NOW, to SOUND like you grew up with it.
Totally remember the 1st time I saw this commercial, I was sooooo hyped to play this game, and it delivered. Thanks for posting and taking me back down memory lane.
I remember getting geeked about this commercial during the TV block that had Married With Children and American Gladiators back 2 back. The 80s were so awesome. 😁
In this game's defense Doki Doki Panic, the original game it was based on was built by a Nintendo team that included Shigeru Miyamoto.Miyamoto is in fact credited for most of the enemy designs and actually being more involved with Doki Doki Panic's production than with the original SMB2. Fuji TV actually only created the player concepts, they commissioned Nintendo to do all the other work.
God....i miss my childhood.......i remember waiting in line with my mom to get a copy of this, only to be given a raincheck...but eventually i got it.....and beat it...and im trying to beat it again on NES Classic.....seems harder now that im older..growing up in the 80's and 90's was awesome.....Nintendo and Masters of the Universe....how could it get any better?
RUclips just recommended me this 16 (going on 17) year old video to me Love how the voiceover just hinted the plot of SMB2 “It’s everything you DREAMED of and worlds more!”
SUPER *mehrio* IS BACK! HES BLASTING THROUGH WORLDS WHERE NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN! HES TAKING ON ENEMIES NO ONE ELSE DARES! THIS TIME *mehrio* PLUCKS UP POWER WHEREVER HE GOES! SO HES BIGGER AND BADDER THAN EVER BEFORE! YOU’VE NEVER SEEN CREATURES LIKE THESE! YOU’VE NEVER HAD AN ADVENTURE LIKE THIS! ITS EVERYTHING YOU’VE DREAMED OF AND WORLDS MORE! ITS SUPER *mehrio* 2, ONLY FROM NINTENDO! NOW YOUR PLAYING WITH POWER!!
Man the 80s were just so effortlessly cool. This commercial has no business getting me so pumped up for a 35 year old game ive already played and beaten several times in my lifetime.
@Johnlindsey289 Yeah, I heard that too. Wasn't it included in Super Mario All-Stars? I played it and it was difficult along with the poison mushrooms. Lost Levels is what it was called, I think?
@genowhril809 Also Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle for the NES was Roger Rabbit in Japan (a totally different Roger Rabbit game than the AVGN reviewed--one where Roger Rabbit replaces Bugs Bunny) There are also reskinned arcade games but not as many as console games.
Yeah, I wish Nintendo would still call the franchise Super Mario Bros., even though not all games feature playable Luigi, or in some cases, playable Mario.
Man...I remember that when I first subscribed to Nintendo Power, I believe Mario 2 was in the first issue. I read the editorial/preview of it like 10 times and it really whet my appetite to get the game. Once I got it though, my NES was pretty screwed up and I actually mailed in my NES to the Nintendo repair guys to fix it, so I couldn't play it until it came back several weeks later LOL it was totally worth the wait though.
I was lucky to get one that year... I think my dad bought the last copy in the store. I remember also that, at least where I lived, this was about when Video rental stores started renting video games, since one of my friends rented SMB2.
OMG!!! I PRAYED THAT RUclips WOULD HAVE THIS! ALL I COULD REMEMBER WAS THE DESERT PART WITH THE SAND! THIS COMM I'VE ONLY SEEN A COUPLE TIMES BUT WAS BURNED INTO MY BRAIN. I'M 29 NOW AND WHEN I WAS YOUNG I WOULD TAKE NAPS WITH MY SUPER MARIO CARTRIDGES!!!
@TheDoctorTL Who are you talking about? Wart or Shyguys? Wart is Mamu in Link's Awakening, but Link doesn't fight him in that game. He does fight Shyguys but either way, there was no such thing as Link's Awakening or even Game Boy back when this commercial was made. If anyone fought those enemies it was the Doki Doki Panic characters & they weren't even known to the public outside Japan. So as far as the target audience goes, the commercial is correct.
I distinctly remember this TV ad because it worked -- it prompted eight-year-old me to BEG my mother for this game. Also, I recall being outraged at the announcer because he kept saying "MARE-io." Nintendo would get savaged for that kind of mistake today!
@Sp0rEaN Remember that Doki Doki Panic was originally a Japan-Only game, and Super Mario Bros. 2 originally only had a North American, Australian and European release. So unless you traveled or had both a Famicom and a NES, it was true.
@AchilGamez Yes, I know that. But it was released about four years after the NA release, so it wasn't released around the same time the other regions got it.
its sad to see that such commercials dont air anymore on tv like i rarely watch tv but if such ads would still be there i would watch more tv just bc of such ads
@dkong1994 Bob-omb already appeared in SMB3. This shows that it didn't take long at all for Nintendo as a whole (as opposed to Nintendo of America) to also recognize SMB2 as an official Mario game. They even made an 8-bit Japanese version of it later called Super Mario USA for the Famicom. Anyway, this is my favorite Mario game. I loved the change after being stuck with SMB1 for several months & having gotten tired of it. I wish they would have made more Mario games like it.
Also has a constantly screwed up / missing "health" bar. My guess is that this was footage from early in the conversion. Mario might've been the only completed on at this point...
@@mryesgaming I haven't died. And yeah, I learned about it somewhere in... the last 14 years. Man, that's an old comment. My life was in a completely different place, figuratively and literally.
So underrated especially after it was revealed that it was a mod of a different game. Who cares, it has Mario and it's fun. This game was the king back in it's day. That day ended though when Mario 3 came along though.
one of my favortie Mario games. Ironic considering it wasn't originally a Mario game but I appreciated how different it was. I remmeber seeing this commercial, one time, and I caught the end of it where he said "Super Mario 2..." and I flipped. Mario had a sequel??? I had to have it.
Actually, Doki Doki Panic was originally developed as a "new" type of Mario game. At one point in development, it was thought to be too similar to Mario Bros., or Super Mario Bros.
@@SonicTheDarkHedgehog No, you are wrong. Even BEFORE the switcharoo, Doki Doki was originally developed as a Mario game. They repurposed it for the Fuji TV festival in Japan, and refinished it as Mario 2 after Lost Levels was ruled out.
Notice how at 0:12, Mario suddenly gets big again. That's a debug feature in the prototype SMB2! Gives you 14 or 15 more hits before you shrink again. Imagine what hell would be raised by a game company advertising a beta feature these days...
@PaperMario15 I gotta commend you for your comment. The majority of people who complain about it weren't even around when it came out. You may not have been either, but you're able to tell a good game when you see it & aren't a complainer like those who complain about a perfectly good game. I would love to see the "it's too hard" complaints about the Japanese SMB2 had that been released instead of the version we got. Other games were also reskinned like Yo Noid & Street Fighter 2010.
There wasn't one. There was only the NES system ads that mentioned it, but there wasn't a standalone ad in the US, probably because, at the time, not may people knew about the game, and even fewer actually had the system. So, the idea was to save money by advertising several games at once (like in the "what will the future bring from Nintendo ad), along with the system itself. By the time of SMB2 in 1988, the NES was hot, and SMB was popular, so it made sense to advertise it by itself.
@rayjay5002 No. I LOVE it! I collected all games on comp. -Doki Doki Panic. -Prototype -Super Mario Bros. 2 -Super Mario All-Stars -BS Super Mario USA -Super Mario USA!
@1daddygriff1 It was published by Fuji Communications Group but developed by Nintendo. In fact, Shigeru Miyamoto actually did more work on Doki Doki, so it's probably more of a Mario game than the "real" Mario 2 is.
I'm surprised they didn't even mention the multiple playable characters! My guess is that that was so uncommon in games of the time that they thought it would just confuse people. Alternately, perhaps they didn't want to scare players off by showing just how different it was from the original SMB.
This is also why me (and so many others) pronounced our mascot as "Mary-o" as opposed to "Mah-ri-o", something I still screw up with from time to time.
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"It's everything you've *dreamed* of and worlds more", love how he threw a hint about the game's plot without giving it away
WTF
AltoonaYourPiano your the best
Because the whole game was a dream
I was watching a movie on tv and then there was an ad showing the movies ending
And also *worlds* more
I'll never forget how awesome this game was back in the day.
I'm LPing it on my gaming channel.
In my humble opinion, I prefer this version over the oh-so-called "real sequel", which sucks hard. And I finished both games.
Agreed, this one actually felt like a new game whereas the orginal japanese was just a mission packed sequel.
I agree I prefer this over lost kevels
Yeah, The Lost Levels just feels like a terrible romhack of Mario 1, and while it is true that Mario 2 was a reskin of Doki Doki Panic, what people seem to forget is that it always has been a Mario game during it's development, but then some TV show that Japan had happened which was why it became Doki Doki Panic in the first place. Then by the time when it was time for America to have a Mario 2, and since The Lost Levels would be way too difficult for American players, they turned Doki Doki Panic back into a Mario game like it was intended.
The real sequel of the original is Super Mario Special by Hudson Soft.
Fun fact, but Nintendo of America decided not to release the Japanese Super Mario Bros 2 in America because of one employee. The employee was a hardcore gamer, and when they gave him the game to try it out he _hated_ the game. Despite the success of the NES and Super Mario Bros 1, Nintendo was still being extremely cautious about the North American video game market because of the Crash of 1983, and they felt that if a guy who loved video games hated a game so much then it was too risky to release the game in America.
The world is better for having Mario 2 brought to us in this form. That's what truly matters.
fun fact: the game shown in commercial is actually a prototype version of SMB2
Mushroom378 ikr, did you noticed that mario's eyes are different than the final version ?
0:12 Out of nowhere, Mario became super, and the HP meter suddenly glitches. If you play the prototype version, press Select, and you see that the life meter suddenly glitches.
More info: themushroomkingdom.net/smb2_proto.shtml
The ROM: tcrf.net/Proto:Super_Mario_Bros._2_(NES)
My screenshot matching 0:12: imgur.com/a/0eePWC7
Really it’s the prototype? How the hell can you tell? I mean it was captured on VHS you can barely see Mario's eyes.
HOLY HELL YOUR RIGHT! I never noticed it! Then again, I never used the select button when I played the prototype but still!
I need that background music alone as an mp3.
This background music was also used in a Spanish ad for Super Mario Bros. 3. It's most likely intended to be production music similar to the stuff used by Killer Tracks.
Yeah dude where i can find it?
yes, the music is amazing
@friggy what's that
SUPHER MAERIO TEWWW! (now yur playing with powar)
Very creative commercal. They don't make commercials or games like this anymore. One of my favorite games for the NES. Thank you for posting.
They really don’t make it like this. The motto “playing with power” is awesome
Although I loved Mario 3 the best, I was sooooo obsessed with this game.
I wonder if the comment in the commercial "It's everything you've DREAMED of..." was an intentional nod to the ending.
Super
M E R I O
2!
"It's everything you've dreamed of and worlds more!" That's a bit of an overstatement.
It's advertising. It's going to be using hyperbole, and exciting language.
best videogame commercial EVER!!! the techno sound on base is amazing!!!
I think it was a smart decision to revamp DDP into SMB2. By 1988, the graphics of NES games had improve drastically over the first gen games.
SMB2 in Japan was just a harder, more frustrating SMB1, and it wasn't developed by Miyamoto, who was making Zelda at the time.
And from what I understand, Miyamoto supervised the conversion and added some elements to make it more accessible, as he usually does. Overall, I think they made the right choice.
And later, this SMB2 was released on the Famicom as "Super Mario USA". Too bad we never got Doki Doki Panic on the NES.
I love that game. Then again, I love all of the Super "Mary-o" games.
0:12
do u see the messed up health bar ?
it means they shows a BETA version of SMB 2
for more infomrmations , type "Super Mario Bros 2" on the RUclips search engine and ... find !
My most nostalgia inducing game of all time.
This commercial is badass, even though its from 1988.
Oh it was spot on marketing!
I remember thinking how great this game was going to be after seeing the commercial, and was disappointed when I played it, and it wasn't anything like the original super mario. Still a great game, I was like 8 when it came out, then 3 came out, and that was the bee's knee's to every kid, everywhere. Still this brings me back.
I don't believe that for a second. Because as someone from back then, that's not how Mario 2 was received by anyone. There WAS no "formula" for Mario becuase as far as we knew there was only 1 game. So everyone assumed this was a natural evolution of Mario, and everyone was blown away by how you could actually ride enemies, go vertical and horizontal, how you could have four characters, pick up things, and throw things. Everyone back then actually saw this game as everything Mario used to be plus more and that's why it was so successful. So you sound to me like one of those people that didn't grow up with this game and is just trying to use information everyone knows NOW, to SOUND like you grew up with it.
its amazing that when i was a kid i didnt suspect something was odd about this game.
I bet this looked awesome back then
Graphically, it did compared to Super Mario Bros.
It did
One of the most radically different game sequels, ever.
merrio
0:12 *casually picks up health from seemingly nowhere*
it's a debug feature because it's the prototype (I played it on my game stick lite)
@@mryesgaming I know that
Totally remember the 1st time I saw this commercial, I was sooooo hyped to play this game, and it delivered. Thanks for posting and taking me back down memory lane.
"He's taking on enemies no one else dares!!" "You've never seen creatures like these!!!" Hell yeah, I totally agree.
Well, don't tell that to the DDP people.
"It's everything you've dreamed of!" Holy shit.
I remember getting geeked about this commercial during the TV block that had Married With Children and American Gladiators back 2 back. The 80s were so awesome. 😁
This came out a year before American Gladiators though.
In this game's defense Doki Doki Panic, the original game it was based on was built by a Nintendo team that included Shigeru Miyamoto.Miyamoto is in fact credited for most of the enemy designs and actually being more involved with Doki Doki Panic's production than with the original SMB2.
Fuji TV actually only created the player concepts, they commissioned Nintendo to do all the other work.
Now this is oooooooold school. \m/ One of my all time favorite Mario games. :-D Man, this brings back some great memories. ;-)
wishes i could go back to these times... i had so much fun back then.
I remember this on TV & loving the music, still worth it today Tuesday 3-7-23.
I like how older people think "Super" is part of his name.
One of my earliest memories was seeing this commercial. I must have been 3 at the time.
God....i miss my childhood.......i remember waiting in line with my mom to get a copy of this, only to be given a raincheck...but eventually i got it.....and beat it...and im trying to beat it again on NES Classic.....seems harder now that im older..growing up in the 80's and 90's was awesome.....Nintendo and Masters of the Universe....how could it get any better?
Ziggybam Murphy Sonic and Power Rangers
Ziggybam same here. Im glad they had game rental stores 😉. Good times back then.
Lol this commercial doesn't even know what it's advertising. SUPER MEEREEO
Super Meriooo WAHOOOOOO
@bandegom Heh! A 10 yr old comment from this guy how neat
Oh it's this guy
Back then, that how America pronounced it.
RUclips just recommended me this 16 (going on 17) year old video to me
Love how the voiceover just hinted the plot of SMB2 “It’s everything you DREAMED of and worlds more!”
Thanks to that ad, I've been calling him merry-o to this day.
Even though 3 was the best, 2 was my fav.
Really enjoyed that game.
super meerio is back
I love this game! Not only does it try to do something different from the previous game (which I like in a video game) but it's also a lot of fun.
Well that takes me back
SUPER *mehrio* IS BACK!
HES BLASTING THROUGH WORLDS WHERE NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN!
HES TAKING ON ENEMIES NO ONE ELSE DARES!
THIS TIME *mehrio* PLUCKS UP POWER WHEREVER HE GOES!
SO HES BIGGER AND BADDER THAN EVER BEFORE!
YOU’VE NEVER SEEN CREATURES LIKE THESE!
YOU’VE NEVER HAD AN ADVENTURE LIKE THIS!
ITS EVERYTHING YOU’VE DREAMED OF AND WORLDS MORE!
ITS SUPER *mehrio* 2, ONLY FROM NINTENDO!
NOW YOUR PLAYING WITH POWER!!
Mario went from a Head stomping spree to throwing stuff to back to head stomping.
Man the 80s were just so effortlessly cool. This commercial has no business getting me so pumped up for a 35 year old game ive already played and beaten several times in my lifetime.
@Johnlindsey289 Yeah, I heard that too. Wasn't it included in Super Mario All-Stars? I played it and it was difficult along with the poison mushrooms. Lost Levels is what it was called, I think?
@genowhril809
Also Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle for the NES was Roger Rabbit in Japan (a totally different Roger Rabbit game than the AVGN reviewed--one where Roger Rabbit replaces Bugs Bunny)
There are also reskinned arcade games but not as many as console games.
This game is so underrated. It rocks!!
MARIO BROS. 4EVER!!!!
Yeah, I wish Nintendo would still call the franchise Super Mario Bros., even though not all games feature playable Luigi, or in some cases, playable Mario.
MARY-O... Super MARY-O
Man...I remember that when I first subscribed to Nintendo Power, I believe Mario 2 was in the first issue. I read the editorial/preview of it like 10 times and it really whet my appetite to get the game. Once I got it though, my NES was pretty screwed up and I actually mailed in my NES to the Nintendo repair guys to fix it, so I couldn't play it until it came back several weeks later LOL it was totally worth the wait though.
Seeing the bomb throwing mouse got me so hyped for the game back in the day.
I was lucky to get one that year... I think my dad bought the last copy in the store.
I remember also that, at least where I lived, this was about when Video rental stores started renting video games, since one of my friends rented SMB2.
OMG!!! I PRAYED THAT RUclips WOULD HAVE THIS! ALL I COULD REMEMBER WAS THE DESERT PART WITH THE SAND! THIS COMM I'VE ONLY SEEN A COUPLE TIMES BUT WAS BURNED INTO MY BRAIN. I'M 29 NOW AND WHEN I WAS YOUNG I WOULD TAKE NAPS WITH MY SUPER MARIO CARTRIDGES!!!
@TheDoctorTL
Who are you talking about? Wart or Shyguys? Wart is Mamu in Link's Awakening, but Link doesn't fight him in that game. He does fight Shyguys but either way, there was no such thing as Link's Awakening or even Game Boy back when this commercial was made.
If anyone fought those enemies it was the Doki Doki Panic characters & they weren't even known to the public outside Japan. So as far as the target audience goes, the commercial is correct.
I remember seeing this ad on tv the game was $80 and extremely hard to get. After a couple of weeks I got it.
I distinctly remember this TV ad because it worked -- it prompted eight-year-old me to BEG my mother for this game. Also, I recall being outraged at the announcer because he kept saying "MARE-io." Nintendo would get savaged for that kind of mistake today!
Super Mare-io is back
Holding giant radishes has never been cooler
@Sp0rEaN Remember that Doki Doki Panic was originally a Japan-Only game, and Super Mario Bros. 2 originally only had a North American, Australian and European release. So unless you traveled or had both a Famicom and a NES, it was true.
I remember this commercial when I was a kid. Man, do I feel old.
@AchilGamez Yes, I know that. But it was released about four years after the NA release, so it wasn't released around the same time the other regions got it.
This needs to be in a history textbook.
11 seconds in, you can see the player cheat by inputting a debug code that gives the player 15 hearts
Good ol' Mary-O!
Who else likes going to these old yt videos and finding the oldest comment
Whats the name of theme song?
its sad to see that such commercials dont air anymore on tv like i rarely watch tv but if such ads would still be there i would watch more tv just bc of such ads
I just noticed when it shows the first person its supposed to be you in the eyes of mario
I love old commercials
@dkong1994
Bob-omb already appeared in SMB3. This shows that it didn't take long at all for Nintendo as a whole (as opposed to Nintendo of America) to also recognize SMB2 as an official Mario game. They even made an 8-bit Japanese version of it later called Super Mario USA for the Famicom.
Anyway, this is my favorite Mario game. I loved the change after being stuck with SMB1 for several months & having gotten tired of it. I wish they would have made more Mario games like it.
super meearios
this commercial is awesome and this 29 seconds are a very good time investment....thumb up
The Part where he says dream isnt meant to be a a plot hint, because the prototype theyre advertising on doesnt have the ending implemented yet.
We need more commercials like this nowadays.
I love how they said he is bigger, badder and more powerful as Mario threw a turnip.
Cool yet stunning!
Also has a constantly screwed up / missing "health" bar. My guess is that this was footage from early in the conversion. Mario might've been the only completed on at this point...
(I hope you reply and haven't died) it's a debug feature as it's showing the prototype
@@mryesgaming I haven't died. And yeah, I learned about it somewhere in... the last 14 years. Man, that's an old comment. My life was in a completely different place, figuratively and literally.
This was a hot seller back when it came out. It was really hard to find it anywhere.
yea i still have all my old systems and the two u mentioned too. But it was not just about the gaming i was talking about. Everything was great
I think Super Mario Bros. 2 is the perfect predecessor to the original.
So underrated especially after it was revealed that it was a mod of a different game. Who cares, it has Mario and it's fun. This game was the king back in it's day.
That day ended though when Mario 3 came along though.
one of my favortie Mario games. Ironic considering it wasn't originally a Mario game but I appreciated how different it was. I remmeber seeing this commercial, one time, and I caught the end of it where he said "Super Mario 2..." and I flipped. Mario had a sequel??? I had to have it.
Actually, Doki Doki Panic was originally developed as a "new" type of Mario game. At one point in development, it was thought to be too similar to Mario Bros., or Super Mario Bros.
@@right_hand_power7960Super Mario Bros 2 came out after Doki Doki panic so you got it backwards.
@@SonicTheDarkHedgehog No, you are wrong. Even BEFORE the switcharoo, Doki Doki was originally developed as a Mario game. They repurposed it for the Fuji TV festival in Japan, and refinished it as Mario 2 after Lost Levels was ruled out.
Did anyone notice the life bar is glitched like in the debug mode of the prototype of this game?
I'm not sure but they used the prototype version of the game
They def used a dev version cause of around 0:13
I think I’m the only person that like SMB2 over 3
The commercials for Nintendo products were high quality for the day, Nintendo would invest millions in advertising
The Wizard is proof of that
Super Mario Bros 3: USA should have been released in Japan on May 28, 1988.
What's wrong with the narrator, Mary o? Seriously?!
That's what we called him back in the day... I know it sounds weird. And we used to call 'em Nintendo tapes, not carts.
JokerXDHaHaHa . I pronounced it properly in the 80s.
ZOMG ALERT THE POLICE!
Good point. He's Italian, not French.
I'm from NY and there are a lot of people here with that name who pronounce it the way heard here, including the former governor Mario Cuomo.
Notice how at 0:12, Mario suddenly gets big again. That's a debug feature in the prototype SMB2! Gives you 14 or 15 more hits before you shrink again.
Imagine what hell would be raised by a game company advertising a beta feature these days...
@PaperMario15
I gotta commend you for your comment. The majority of people who complain about it weren't even around when it came out. You may not have been either, but you're able to tell a good game when you see it & aren't a complainer like those who complain about a perfectly good game. I would love to see the "it's too hard" complaints about the Japanese SMB2 had that been released instead of the version we got.
Other games were also reskinned like Yo Noid & Street Fighter 2010.
dammit i have to back to the 80's to play games like that.
There wasn't one.
There was only the NES system ads that mentioned it, but there wasn't a standalone ad in the US, probably because, at the time, not may people knew about the game, and even fewer actually had the system. So, the idea was to save money by advertising several games at once (like in the "what will the future bring from Nintendo ad), along with the system itself.
By the time of SMB2 in 1988, the NES was hot, and SMB was popular, so it made sense to advertise it by itself.
@rayjay5002 No. I LOVE it! I collected all games on comp.
-Doki Doki Panic.
-Prototype
-Super Mario Bros. 2
-Super Mario All-Stars
-BS Super Mario USA
-Super Mario USA!
Very good show and my introduction to the games
Ah yes. Back when ya ma would get you a Super Mary-O Two tape for ya Nintendo for ya birthday.
@itsuyo211 there was no reason to think any thing about it. I didn't start asking questions about it until Super Mario All Stars.
@dkong1994
Not to mention that many of its enemies have now become a staple of the Mario universe, like the Shy Guy and Bobomb.
@computergeek322 In Japan, our Super Mario 2 is their Super Mario USA.
I Cant wait to play "SUPER MARIO 2 BROS."
@1daddygriff1
It was published by Fuji Communications Group but developed by Nintendo. In fact, Shigeru Miyamoto actually did more work on Doki Doki, so it's probably more of a Mario game than the "real" Mario 2 is.
I'm surprised they didn't even mention the multiple playable characters!
My guess is that that was so uncommon in games of the time that they thought it would just confuse people. Alternately, perhaps they didn't want to scare players off by showing just how different it was from the original SMB.
This is also why me (and so many others) pronounced our mascot as "Mary-o" as opposed to "Mah-ri-o", something I still screw up with from time to time.