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How America Changed the Mario Brothers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the jumping-plumbers dept.

DreamWinkle writes "It might seem unlikely considering that Mario was born and developed in Japan by Japanese minds, but America forever changed how our favorite plumber played. Why? Because Nintendo thought the U.S. and European gamers couldn't play. As a consequence, they never released the real Mario 2 outside of Japan because it was too hard, and instead released Doki Doki Panic with the Mario name. Since then, the entire Mario franchise has picked up traits from Doki Doki Panic, like the card game at the end of each level in Mario 3. This article takes a look at what elements really belong to Mario and what belongs to Doki Doki Panic. It's interesting to see that, point for point, Nintendo changed almost nothing about Doki Doki Panic before releasing it in the states and Europe as Mario 2."

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  1. Tonight o_O by Fusione · · Score: 4, Funny

    As I wasted my last life fumbling with mario 3 using an emulator on my PDA while riding home on the bus, the Japanesse kid beside me chuckled. I gave him a dirty look, and turned away to try again. What an erie slashdot article to come home to.

  2. oh. by supernova87a · · Score: 4, Funny

    from the title, I thought it was going to be how the Mario brothers became fatter, and less efficient.

    1. Re:oh. by carpe_noctem · · Score: 4, Funny

      This should be a clear consequence of any game involving mushrooms and magic pipes...

      --
      "Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
  3. Re:Does anyone not know about the story of SMB2? by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its not [NEXT]
    Short, but [NEXT]
    you will need [NEXT]
    a new mouse [NEXT]
    button afterwards [NEXT]
    because of [NEXT]
    all the [NEXT]
    page breaks. [NEXT]

    Its like [NEXT]
    reading toms [NEXT]
    hardware guide.

    --
    liqbase :: faster than paper
  4. Re:Does anyone not know about the story of SMB2? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This almost [buffering...]
    sounds like [buffering...]
    What Real [buffering...]
    players does. [buffering...]

    Have they [buffering...]
    branched out [buffering...]
    into making [buffering...]
    web pages? [buffering...]

    Or has... this web page... a work of... Capt. Kirk?

  5. Re:Everything inherited from SMB2 by Solder+Fumes · · Score: 4, Funny

    She pulls them out of... you know, I'm not even going to go there.

    And I'm sure you never have.