Super Mario Bros. 2

This game really is a must-have if you are a fan of Mario games. It is visually almost identical but a lot more challenging than Super Mario Bros. so you will find yourself playing it for awhile before you finally beat it.

The japanese Smb2 is almost identical to SMB1 and nintendo didn´t thought that it was good enough for the western market. In later it came to to USA and Europe in the "Mario-game package" Super Mario Allstars (SNES) and was then titled SMB The Lost Levels. The Japanese SMB2 can be described as "a new much harder SMB1". SMB2 the lost levels is also the only Mario game (except from european SMB2) where the choice of Mario or Luigi really matters more than for looks. Here Luigi can jump higher than his fat brother, Mario on the other hand is much more flexible than Luigi. A game for SMB1 freaks that want more!

Super Mario Advance está longe de ser o mais impressionante título do lançamento do portátil - é só experimentar Rayman Advance e Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 para ver isso - mas é o primeiro passo da Nintendo para relançar seus grandes sucessos no pequeno notável, provando mais uma vez que nem só de tecnologia se faz um jogo.

Overall, this game is shorter than its predecessor, containing only twenty levels in seven worlds, and no 'second quest', but it is decently lengthed since levels take longer, and it has high replay value because you’ll have to play it many times before you beat it, and even then, you’ll likely be wanting to play it again. If you don’t have this game, I would recommend you get some version of it.

Purists will be happy to discover that the Virtual Console rendition of Super Mario Bros. 2 is identical to the original Famicom Disk System version. It features the original 8-bit graphics and audio, instead of the snazzier 16-bit upgrades found in Super Mario All-Stars for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. This version also includes the original title screen, and does away with the added checkpoints and 1-Ups that Nintendo made more plentiful in the versions included with Super Mario All-Stars and Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. Checkpoints and 1-Ups are sparse, and when you continue, you do so from the beginning of the world, as opposed to the level you last died in. At 600 Wii points, the original, unedited rendition of Super Mario Bros. 2 is a decent buy, provided that you're the sort of masochist who wants to play Super Mario Bros. with the difficulty cranked to the breaking point.