Super Mario Bros. 2

Super Mario Bros. 2 is a classic game and a must-own for any real NES collection. I think that it is one of the 10 best games released for the NES. SMB2 is the most unique title in the Super Mario trilogy and is a very fun game. Ultimately, its low difficulty level brings it down just a slight notch from the A+ status of SMB1 and SMB3.

O Reino dos Cogumelos está novamente em perigo. E, desta vez, Mário, Luigi, Toad e a princesa devem libertá-lo da magia do terrível Wart, não sem antes muita emoção.

After the phenomenally successful first Super Mario Bros game, you might have expected Nintendo to stick with the same winning formula, but this second edition has a very different look and feel. It's far more challenging and complicated than the original, but still retains the charm and quality gameplay you would expect from Nintendo.

Super Mario Brothers can't have been an easy act to follow, so Nintendo really had their work cut out producing a follow-up. But they've done it, and SMB2 is even better! Cute and highly detailed characters and colourful backgrounds really make it look cartoony and fun, and the music and sound effects match the graphics for jolliness. But the gameplay's what's most important, and even in this respect, SMB2 tops the original! All the new characters and the new abilities add a further dimension to the original platform fun. At nearly £40 it's one of the most expensive Nintendo carts, but any fan of the original will certainly get his money's worth!

The european and US SMB2. This game is not like other Mario games and that is because it wasn´t a Mario game at all from the beginning! The game was from the beginning a japanese game named "Dream Factory: Doki Doki Panic" that Nintendo bought and changed the heroes into Mario, Luigi, Toad and Peach! This game isn´t like other Mario game and takes place, not in the Mushroom Kingdom but this time in the dream world Sub-Con where a huge green reptile named Wart (not so different from Bowser!) rules. You can´t stomp on enemies like in other Mario games but you can ride ride on them instead and take them up and carry them around and throw them on other enemies. This game is both big and quite challenging and it´s differences from other Mario games isn´t a bad thing at all! The question is if this isn´t better than the japanese SMB 2!

American gamers really do have the skill to play the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2, but it was a good move by Nintendo anyway to create this less frustrating, more funky game – the American Mario 2 is still a lot of fun, and it inspired several aspects of future Super Mario titles. At 500 Wii Points, it's a great value for download. The only reason you may not want to pick it up is if, like Super Mario World, you already own it in another form – this game was re-released with enhanced graphics and a few other bonuses as Super Mario Advance for the launch of the Game Boy Advance back in 2001. As for the "real" Super Mario Bros. 2? Who knows. But the Virtual Console offers Nintendo a great avenue to distribute it here in its original 8-bit form, should the company ever decide we can handle it.

Canon my red, shaven ass. This game paved the way for Mario to fully realize his potential. I'm giving this game the highest score I've ever scored anything on a 1-to-10 scale of scoring.

This game is recommended to all. There will always be a crowd who say this is not as good as the other Mario games but that is a short-sighted view to have. Nintendo pulled out all the stops in creating an original, quirky sequel to the original Mario classic. Adding all the elements together this is really an excellent game not to be missed.

There's something really weird about NES sequels to major Nintendo franchises--a fact that the Wii Virtual Console is helping to highlight again now, many years after the original system's lifespan came to a close. Zelda II is one already-released example of a franchise going in a patently crazy direction, and now there's Super Mario Bros. 2 to gawk at. SMB2 was indeed a departure from what Super Mario Bros. laid out, adding four playable characters, the ability to pick up enemies, a variety of weird power-ups, and a gaggle of enemies and bosses that were most definitely not Bowser and his assorted minions. It was such a kooky game that its follow-up sequel, Super Mario Bros. 3, actually reneged on a lot of this game's ideas and went back to what made the original SMB so much fun. Still, weird as it was, Super Mario Bros. 2 was a fantastic game for its time, and its unique gameplay still holds up as challenging and fun all these years later.

The battle takes place in Subcon, Mario's subconsciousness. Wart represents Mario's Id, an undesirable blemish upon his soul that houses his urges to just screw it all and stop eating his veggies. "Potions" help Mario escape into another world and not face reality. Mario is "average," possessing no special skills. But with the help of his friends, Mario is able to overcome these primal urges: Birdo, who is sexually ambivalent; Shyguy, an introvert; Bobomb, who is short-fused; Ostra, who keeps his head in the sand and lets people ride him; Fryguy, a short-lived emotional fire; Triclyde, an indecisive, underhanded snake; Panser, who doesn't do much of anything; Porcupa and Pokey, who hide inside their prickly shells; and, finally, Wart, who manipulates everything negatively. At the end of the day, Mario and friends prevail, but only in dreams: Mario is still left to battle his inner demons.