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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. Where to buy? by Phroggy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is it possible to buy the Japanese SMB2, as a cartridge I can play in my NES? Did the Japanese system use the same cartridges, or was there a slight difference?

    Yes, I know you can use an emulator, or Super Mario All-Stars for SNES. I'm not interested in an emulator at the moment, and I don't have a SNES.

    So assuming the cartridges are compatible, where can I buy one?

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    1. Re:Where to buy? by Phroggy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      i thought the "lost levels" included in later releases of SMB was the japanese mario 2.

      That was Super Mario All-Stars on SNES, not released for NES.

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  2. Between the dupes and the Backslashes by bahwi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can't tell what's real anymore. Is every article a dupe or is it all backslashes?

  3. Re:Does anyone not know about the story of SMB2? by a_nonamiss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Firefox + Adblock Plus + Filterset.G = No ads on this site at all. Plus you're right. There are about 26 words in the article.

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  4. Re:Old... by Guitarzan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...final fantasy VXIII...

    Is anyone else trying to figure out which one this is?

  5. Re:Get the facts straight Yanks! by LocalH · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What the fuck?

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