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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."

18 of 315 comments (clear)

  1. Fir5t posT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    has steadily Rfor the state of

  2. you know what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    i'm crazy about a cute little jewish princess named monica who has a tongue ring.

    ..i figure that's at least as interesting to most readers here as some comparison concerning 20-year-old nintendo games.

    oh wait..

    1. Re:you know what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      cool.

      Seriously, i am actually more interested by that than by this article.

      Offtopic should be a +1, not a -1.

  3. 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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  4. Re:I didn't... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    ...and I DO give a shit. So there, fuckhead.

    Just don't give it to me.
  5. fsck wintendo! I wanna play "suki suki"! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The only Japanese game I want to play is "suki suki!". Asian girls really know how to suki suki my d..k ;)

  6. [OT] Rollover Ad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My GOD that rollover ad on the top of slashdot frontpage is irritating! It is so easy to mistakenly move over it while trying to reach one of the links in the top sidebar. Can at least the frontpage ad not be SO annoying?!

  7. Re:The most important thing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You're a poor dumbass, aren't you? He didn't diss you - he refuted your claim with FACTS and KNOWLEDGE which you clearly lack. Instead of answering like a sand-in-your-vagina bitch, you should thank him for the info.

    Oh, and THIS is a diss, not GP's post. Fucking moron.

  8. Read this to the Mario tune: by Max+Threshold · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Du du du du du du dupe!

    *tube* *tube* *tube*

  9. Re:It's common by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    When I grew up, it seemed like the U.S. respected science instead of intelligent design

    No, you just thought it did, because the religious folks were less organized about spreading their agenda. Unfortunately the notion of evolution has never quite caught on in certain parts of this country.

    respected debate over the nihilism of "everyone's opinion has value"

    Not sure where you're going there - sounds like a false dichotomy to me.

    Perhaps it would be a research topic to evaluate whether junk content and sloppy reasoning have a spillover adverse effect on more primal I.Q. measurements like reaction time to simple problems?

    At least you're not establishing as fact the notion that people who disagree with you are stupid.

  10. Re:Yea by Dr.+Shim · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm so sorry that Slashdot hasn't amused you today. Please try again later.

    Or you can subscribe to Slashdot Professional Edition, for only 59.99! That's less that sixty bucks! That'll gurantee you fun content all year around!!

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  11. 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?

  12. 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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  13. Re:oh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...and their penis' got bigger.

  14. Re:That's a protest, not funny anymore. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, protesting is hilarious. I'd mod you up if I could.

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

    ...final fantasy VXIII...

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

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

    What the fuck?

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