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A true classic for the NES!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The original Super Mario Bros. 2 was released in Japan in 1986. Nintendo of America did not like the fact that it was extremely difficult and similar to the first one. Nintendo did however take a game called Doki Doki Panic and replaced the characters with Mario characters. Despite the fact that this game was not originally a Mario Bros. title it still is a terrific game. The game play is great and this game is very addictive. I just took it out of my bin of NES games recently and I can't put it down. I must have beaten it at least 20 times. Although regarded as the "black sheep" of the series this is a great game for anyone and especially a Mario fan.

A few facts about this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game abandons the super mario you know and love. You might not know this, but this game is an exact copy of a game that released in Japan called Doki Doki Panic.

AWESOME!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Mario Bros. have done it again. A classicly made game for a classic system. Totally cool!

that's service!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game was in great condition! I'm very happy with my purchase. Every part of this transaction went smoothly. Thanks!!

Quite annoying

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I thought this game was kind of annoying-hard, there's a lot of monsters which shoots little bullets at you that are annoying.
But even worse, there's some kind of sunmask, when you take its key (which you have to), it starts chasing you and the stupid thing is programmed to chase you and hit you 100%!!!
There's this one place I hated the most, you have to climb up, up, up and kind of zig-zag your way there, get the key, then zig zag your way down.
I could not do it, thankfully there's a warp zone so you can get past that place.

I found the game a bit boring, it's not like Mario Bros 1 or Super Mario World where you jump on a lot of platforms, jump on things to get rid of them, instead you have to pick up vegetables and throw them at the monsters. And some of these monsters are either moving or hiding under places where you can't hit them. GRR!!
I mean, you spend most of the game trying to avoid enemies like the plague, unlike other Mario games where you enjoy jumping on them and flattening them.

You can play with 4 characters with different abilites.
Mario, who is completely useless.
Luigi, who jumps really high but has a bad case of spasm in his legs. He is also hard to control.
Toad, who can't jump far, but can dig fast. Yay, he can dig so fast to get the key, but the sunmask is so fast, and Toad is so slow and can't jump, guess who don't get away from the sunmask?!
Then there's Princess, who can "float" in the air for a short time, making her the only player who can avoid any enemy attacks!

The only thing I liked about this game was, 1 I could play with the Princess. (surprisingly, she was the only one to ever completed an area)
2: Wart is a good challenge, unlike the rest of the game.

See Through the Hype

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Although this game is basically the Japanese game Doki Doki Panic with Mario characters and in no way fits the same format as the original and most of the latter sequels, it's still pretty good. If you get past the lame marketing ploy for this game, you see that it's a nice original platformer. You get to throw stuff, the playable characters have very different abilities (Mario being the basic player, Luigi the high jumper, Toadstool the floater, and Toad the fast runner/jumper.), and it's all in a very cool-looking (at least for the time) dream world... A lot of Egyptian and other ancient influences. For all the purists out there, lighten up and try to see the positive points of the game instead of whining. If gaming was supposed to be serious, it wouldn't be called "gaming".

Mario Dreaming

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I guess I'll add my 2cents to this game. This game was always my favorite mario game. For the reason most people say. This game went in such different direction it either caught you off gaurd or you loved. I am a huge Mario fan from way back. But people, does every Mario game have to take place in the Mushroom Kingdom and does cuz always have to save the princess from Koopa. This is the only Mario game that you can pick every main character that alone is worth the price. Picking the veggies out the ground was cool, flyin carpets and the whole nine. Going in jars instead of pipes, actually having a live meter so you don't shrink when you get hit. Having different back drops and enimies was a nice twist. We haven't seen Wart since. Maybe Mario should take another nap. I've seen the Doki Doki game and yeah they ripped it off. But would you have wanted the original Mario 2 which is SMB 1 but harder. I played it on Mario allstars good but to much of the same. Its like this to me SMB3 is the best Mario game ever made I wish they would make a 3-D version of it. But this is my favorite Mario game its so different that made it memorable.

super mario bros 2 review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I really have enjoyed this video game. I was just amazed how clear it was!!! i would recommend it to anyone... i love it!

MY adult self sits right on down to play........

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my 6 year old, but really the child in me was anxious for its arrival. Delivery was speedy and the game was reasonably priced and worked, that suits me wonderfully.

Super Mario 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I give it a good review because of the age of the game. If people are still buying it, how can it be that bad. It's a shame there are no memory cards to save progress, but there wasn't any around that time. Still, it's fun and Mario is a major building block of video games. In this one, there are multiple characters to choose to play. This is my least favorite Mario game, but it is still good.

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