There’s one in every family. You know, like Star Trek V, or Batman & Robin. Yup, every series has got That One Thing.
Super Mario Bros. 2 is Mario’s That One Thing.
…fortunately Mr. Freeze isn’t in Super Mario Bros. 2.
And fortunately, Super Mario Bros 2 is AWESOME.
See, this wasn’t originally a Mario game. Nintendo just took the original game, named Doki Doki Panic, and conveniently gave it Mario sprites. The result is this crazy game that involves magic potions that take you to alternate phases, hurling vegetables around, bird face doors, and Warp Vases instead of Warp Pipes.
But somehow, if you mix all of this up in a blender and serve chilled, it all comes out amazingly. This game is redonkulously fun.
Also, you can be Toad. And we all know that Toad is basically the best Mario character, besides Yoshi or the talking stopwatch in Diddy Kong Racing.
There’s really not much else to say about this game; the gameplay is pretty straightforward. It’s just different. But different is good when it’s still solid, and this game is.
Also: Birdo. Enough said.
I’m so hipster with video games that I liked Super Mario Bros 2 better when it was still called Doki Doki Panic!
I have terrifying knowledge not conveyed in this post.
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Birdo is a dude.
This is definitely one of the NES games I will play in my recent emulation phase.
@ Jardal – Lies! Prove it!
I think my favorite thing about Super Mario 2 was the music. It was so catchy. The boss battles, title screen, the first world. It was all awesome. You can’t sit here with a straight face and tell me that you don’t start humming the first world theme whenever you start thinking about Super Mario 2.