The original version is something altogether different. While some may think they’ve played The Lost Levels via the SNES version from Super Mario All-Stars, they haven’t gotten the full experience Japanese gamers got back in 1986. It was deemed too hard for Western audiences and was even rejected by Nintendo’s official president of mirth, Howard Phillips (the bow-tie guy from Nintendo Power!), for simply not being fun to play. There actually was a true sequel to Super Mario Bros., and it was only released in Japan. While some are aware the sequel we got in America was actually a reskinned version of a Japanese game called Doki-Doki Panic, except with Mario characters replacing the original playable characters, that’s only part of the story. I’m paraphrasing the plot, but the part about them all A Nightmare on Elm Street-ing the same dream is true.
2, they still think of Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad all having the same dream about pulling veggies out of the ground, fighting egg-producing champion, Birdo, and seeking Wart-the one-time-only Big Bad of the Mario franchise. I assume even now when people think of Super Mario Bros. Oh well, best not to think too deeply on all this. Maybe none of that happened-even though Shy Guys were still a thing afterwards. Maybe there never was an adventure where the brothers Mario went off to some dreamland called Subcon, to fight an obese frog, with his friends. 2 for the Famicom, a maddeningly difficult game that is in many ways an anti-Nintendo game. This week we look at the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. Each week, we’ll take a unique look at each game in the series, and discuss aspects you may not have considered. Hot on the heels of our popular dive into The Legend of Zelda franchise, we now jump, stomp, and dive into the most iconic and popular video game franchise ever, the Super Mario Bros.
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