Game Change
Who here played Mario Bros. 2 in the US when they were a kid? Good game huh? Sure it was creepy, and filled with weird stuff that doesn’t make any sense (not that the original Mario made much more sense), but it was charming in its own way. Well, the reason the game is a bit of a black sheep is that it was originally called Doki Doki Panic, and was released in Japan for the Famicom Disk System, which was an NES addon that included a floppy disk drive. I’ve never even seen one in person.
The game was bought by Nintendo, redesigned, and released as Super Mario Bros. 2 here in the US. All they did was tweak the graphics and music, and ended up with a final product. The original game is quite a bit weirder though, and just as amusing.
If you want to learn more about it, or get a ROM of the game so you can play it on your emulator, check out Poprocks and Coke.
Friday 28 May 2004 | Sam | Other
Is it me, or is that comment spam I see here?
Why, yes it is comment spam. Actually, its not, because its gone now. I’ve been getting a lot recently, fortunately, MT-Blacklist takes care of it in short order, this one just slipped through my net.