This video popped up in my recommendeds last night.
Damn, sexy Peach!
But really what I wanted to draw attention to is Mario 2. Well, what we know as Super Mario Bros. 2.
If you’re not in the know, there was this Nintendo game called Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic. Maybe it looks a little familiar to you?
Back in the late 80s, Nintendo wanted to put out a Mario Bros. sequel to international markets, but determined that the real Mario Bros. 2 was a too difficult and too similar to the original (this game would later come to be know over here as The Lost Levels).
So instead, they took Doki Doki Panic and basically reskinned it as a Mario game. Viola!
But wait – Shy Guy, Birdo…these have become time-honored staples of the franchise. Surely they had them in Japan, right? Right!
The reskinned Mario Doki Doki Panic was released in Japan as Mario USA.
U-S-A! U-S-A!
I knew about the Doki Doki reskin, but never knew about the Japanese release/naming of the game. Until I saw this video…
Neato.
-Bushi
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