I was at Disneyland and my friend and I were talking about old school games and we started talking about Super Mario Bros. 2. Since I haven’t had time to put into RPGs lately, I thought this would be a good first attempt at a Retro Review.
Just a quick note on Super Mario Bros. 2. SMB 2 is actually not really the second mario game. SMB2 was actually a little game called Doki Doki Panic 2. It was a different game and had Mario characters put into it. The real Super Mario Bros 2 game was finally released onto The Super Nintendo in the Super Mario All-Stars game called Super Mario Bros -The Lost Levels.
Ok, First off you get to pick your character, as a kid I always picked Princess Peach because each character has a special talent. Peach hovers a bit in the air while jumping, Luigi jumps really high and so on.
So, since this game is different, when you jump on an enemy, you can’t kill them, you basically ride on top of them. Then you can pick them up and throw them. If you throw them into another enemy, then you can kill them. Or you can pick up a few of the vegetables in the ground and then throw them into the bad guys.
The “Boss” characters are different too. The first “Boss” you come in contact to is Brido, who is a character who’s gender is apparently undetermined at this point. As a kid I had no idea what to do, so I’d jump on the egg and ride it to the end of the screen. Once I figured out how to do it, the rest of the game was a sinch. All you really have to do is jump on the egg when Birdo shoots it at you, and then pick it up out of the air, defying the laws of physics and gravity and throw it back at Brido.
Once you kill Birdo, you enter some random door that looks like the head of an eagle and then goes into the bonus stage. The bonus stage is a slot machine where you can get extra lives if you match up the images. The number of tries depends on how many coins you get in the “negative zone” which is the zone you get to when you pull out random potions out of the ground and throw them on the ground. Once you throw the potion on the ground, it makes a door appear and when you go through the door, you go into the negative zone. The negative zone is exactly what area you were in on screen, but without enemies and the ground is all in black. If you pull up something from the ground that is a regular vegetable in the normal world, it will be a coin, and that is where you can get more tries in the slot machine bonus stage. When you pull up something that was a potion in the real world, you get a Mushroom which will either restore part of your life or give you an extra slot for life and also make you bigger as well.
See quite different than the normal run of the mill Mario game. If you ever want to try this game out, come into Games 4 U and we’ll be happy to set it up for you and let you see how extremely weird, yet awesome this game, that had nothing to do with mario, actually is.