Except the doors that go to that dark zone, lol

Also longer levels.

Yes, I dotoo

I agree!

I never thought of that but now you mention it-that’s a way this game is better than smb1

Concur, definitely happened to me! I liked this game though and the beat it. I think I also beat the Super Mario 3 but have yet to fully beat Super Mario World (Forest of Illusion got me frustrated)

Luigi was hurt in his confusion!

I'm glad we got the US version of SMB2 instead of SMB v2

I was exposed to it on super Mario advanced first since I was in that era and thought that was the original lol.

Can't say I did. I was 5 or 6 and just went with it

Mama? MAMA LUIGI?! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

THATS MAMA LUIGI TO YOU MARIO

@@Lanausse no everyone

@@TheCoolEevee man i love that laugh so much😄

MAMA? MAMA LUIGI?!?!? AHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHA!

Yeah but they’ve strayed from that path imo

@@Awesum [playing Metroid Dread, Pokémon Legends Arceus, Kirby and the Forgotten Land] Nah they're still good

@@RhythmGrizz True

"As long as it's fun, charge full price til the end of time." FTFY

"As long as it's fun, it doesn't need any content! Let's release arcade games for full price!"

Same

Agreed! Sounds like something they would say it at the North Pole!

Yeah, it's not about the money but *will the children be happy* 💕

We were happy, sir. :D

I guess "Kids know d*ck!" was their actual response...

A hell of a lot more relevant than any alien conspiracy BS which is deliberately designed to look like a "documentary".

Gaming Historian only had just over 100K subscribers when this video came out (exactly three years ago!).

I liked the voiceovers done by different voice actors. It made me think of most of Ken Burns’ Documentaries.

Randy Miller III That’s still not small. That’s not exactly “big” by today’s standards either, but geez. I know the days when we used to consider 300 sub channels to be big and 1,000 sub channels to be huge are gone, but has subscriber inflation really warped our perception that much?

The b0h3m3 and lonelygirl15 days

Yeah it just won game of the year for 2021 today!

@@ictogon barely this time!

SUPA MARIO BRUDDAS TOO BAYBEEEEEEE

If Super Mario Bros 2 is so good, why isn’t there a Super Mario Bros 2 2 yet?

THE STREAK NEVER ENDS BAYBEEEEE

Dude, discs are so second millennium.

I hate to be that kinda dude (I really don’t) but they now use SD Cards. Please R/Wooosh me.

Because they had to find a way to bring these disk games to America, and with larger boards (NES games were about twice the height of a Famicom game), it was easier to use higher capacity chips, and install a battery, and combined with the system being finicky, just makes sense to use cartridges without moving parts.

reject modernity embrace tradition

Storage space mostly isn't a factor anymore. After all it's great to say you have 1,5 terrabytes but you also need to actually have enough content to fill it up. With most games it's budget that limits the size of games. Also with modern compression tools you can make data a fraction of it's size with pretty much no negative effects other than a small additional development money.

@craZ guy Guessing you didn't watch the video

The explanation and reality you state are (excluding the graphics and sound comment) essentially flip sides of the same coin. It demonstrates that there are multiple ways to say the same thing, some more antagonistic and some more polite.

@@roguishpaladin I disagree; "Americans aren't in the mood for a more difficult game that looks, feels, and plays the same" and "Americans suck at video games" are not flip sides of the same statement. The fact is, Americans probably would've been able to play the game just fine; they just wouldn't have *wanted* to. There's a huge difference between a desire to do something and a capability to do something. And in a market, desire is what's important. Besides, the fact that Super Mario Bros USA did well in Japan should mean something as well.

WOW! How did I not think like that before?

@@GayLPer woosh

Surely helps family cohesion when the parents are into video games, too.

Zelda: A Link past time? You mean A Link to the Past?

@@Jamalfarmboy Yes that was a journey!

@@Writer_Tj_Noir ah I prefer ocarina but alttp was really good

@@Jamalfarmboy i tried my best to get into that one but i just couldn't lol

I completely agree. Not having a clock let you explore that big dreamlike world

Not to mention way better physics.

Well you are in a dream world where time does not exist so it makes sense

And that each playable character had their own special ability....

This was the first game I ever beat.. I just recently bought a controller for computer so I could play it again online and I remember most every bit of it. It was great to beat again.

It's my favourite Mario game. You can play as the princess for Lord's sake.

@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 I agree. I like it more than Super Mario Bros 3. I get annoyed when people say it's not a real Mario game.

Plus, it was already built. So all they had to do was redo the characters and a few of the outlying differences and package it for America.

@@hagendf so there happened to be a guy that jumped high for Luigi? I don't even know Mushrooms power.

@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 yea she was the best.

What games are you currently playing?

I hope they revisit this series

Japan mario 2 is just the first mario game set on difficult

Japan is the best Mario song is go go mario

@@gtx-808 Alternate title: Super Mario Bros: Hardcore mode

Heck my parents right now will just giveup at the first store

Damn man, you have some above and beyond parents! Good for you!

Billo1281 for real.... my first game system was a super nintendo that one of my moms coworkers gave her to give me for christmas. and this was in 1997 when n64/ playstation was out. i was 5 ort 6 years old at the time too.

My first system was the snes, which we got in the early 2000's, dang that was a great system

+Saxcat20 Let's Plays We found Mario 2, Mario 3, and Zelda 2 all at K-Mart within days of their releases. Nobody else had these games but apparently few people thought to check the good old K-Mart!

same like what i thought

For me mario 2 felt the same as any other Mario game once you get past picking up objects and no brick blocks

Exactly: Also Nintendo was pretty smart as a company back then.They do the American market for video games was different than Japan and they adapted things to appeal to Americans (ie USA was still recovering from the video game crash so they had to make sure their video games were high quality and also that's why the NES was called an "entertainment system" and not marketed as a "video game system", they justified delaying the SNES because USA was in a recession so many parents simply wouldn't have been able to justify a new video game system anyway, etc.)

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Until they finally brought back in the American gaming crowd, in the form of Super Mario All-Stars.

but would it have held a special place in their heart if it wasnt associated with Mario though.

@@Shiirow Man, I didn’t think of that. Probably not. Thanks for your edgy hot take.

@@Shiirow Well, obviously not, but neither would Lost Levels had it been released originally instead. Plus, having SMB2 proved benefitial as it added new enemies to the Mario series, unlike LL which only added Luigi's higher jump and Poison Mushrooms

@@Shiirow There's no way of knowing that since that never happened.

@@waynecannon4232 Responding to edge with your own edge. Glorious.

TheElmoEmperor It all makes sense now

Deep lore

THATS MAMA LUIGI TO YOU MARIO! *weird sound*

Mama Luigi ha ha ha!

I literally thought that before looking at this comment.

That's true

I wonder how players find the entrance of the dungeons without youtube

Froggy Fortress xdxd Nintendo power

@@krisfarted I almost forgot that

toptenguy1 to be fair, three of those were not made by Nintendo, and Zelda isn’t “hard” per se, it’s cryptic and filled with secrets you’re meant to explore and discover, and puzzles you’re meant to solve.

STILL DA KING BAYBEE

I don't get the joke

@@tahsinshabab4530 why tho

@@AzureQuality Idk

@@tahsinshabab4530 it's a reference to youtuber videogamedunkey

It _is_ a documentary lol.

H0000K now eat some nuts

Gaming Historian pretty much only make documentaries. Some episodes are shorter, like his Conquest of the Crystal palace video which is less tjan 10 minutes long, and then he makes stuff like Tetris and Punch, both of which are over 45 minutes long.

The guy who reviewed Mario 2: “WHAT WERE THEY THINKING”

Same here!

I beat it with Luigi. I vowed to never play it ever because I didn’t think I’d beat it again haha….it’s HARD!!

Realizing that jumping backwards with Mario he can hit max speed instantly and basically jump the same hight. I prefer Mario over Luigi lol

Reverse warp zones more like reverse traps

Those reverse warps use to make me quit the game🤣🤣

It's *are tough...not-> *is tough. Duuuuuuuuuh!

Lol i have the entire series that that meme is from

"Mama? *_MAMA LUIGI?!_* (laughs hysterically)"

RetroGamerNerd

The fact that mama was changed to Luigi, makes me laugh even more.

wow

MiNiSHi DoZA I've always wondered if the deluxe version was worth it. What do you think?

Cody McNeil For portability, yeah. On the go play, the only downside is the screen crunch, so you'll see less. But I personally find it worth it with how cheap gameboy games are.

In Doki Doki Panic, the game takes place inside of a magical storybook

good call by Howard Phillips, japanese mario bros 2 looked and felt like super mario bros

Or even if we had it wouldn't of had the running upgrade. Can't be without that.

This is very true. Because of Fuji's ownership of the characters, it would've been impossible to release this game outside Japan without changing the characters. Making it Mario 2 outside Japan was win win for everyone involved. The rest of the world got to play Doki Doki Panic where they wouldn't have otherwise. And there was a better sequel to Mario (which was so popular it was re-released in Japan as Super Mario USA).

The first vegan

Which region's sequel?

64 Bit, 32 Bit, 16 Bit, 8 Bit, 4 Bit, 2 Bit, 1 Bit, Half Bit, Quarter Bit, *_THE WRIST GAME!_*

They did always characterize Howard as a nerd with a bowtie... hrm.

Same

me too..and i'm 41 this year lol

... I agree the usa Mario 2 was Good but weard even as a kid befor I know about this hole game thing it never made sence to me ...

I see a little bit of SMB2 in some of the designs that are in Mario Wonder

***** the one thing he didnt mention was that the shelved prototype used mario as a stand in character so, it pretty much went full circle

THAT I didn't know BobbyJoe!

Yeah it was a really fun when the game released!

I miss Wart. :(

+Jacemachine Gaming You would think by now Wart would've at least shown up in Mario Kart or Super Smash Bros.

Dancing Zombie lmao that just cracked me up

Wow.

🤣

Holy shit! you have some kind of an upgraded brain to notice this!

@@Myjacob99 lmbo* You idiot!

yooo right. this shit would never even be contemplated today

rich kid! just kidding, kinda. :)

@xsolent My 1988 xmas experience was great as well. And i was only child so no sharing hahaha!! And i loved floating with peach through most of the game. 👍

This was the first game I ever bought with my own money. I remember it was at least $50. I was only 5-6 so I don't even know how I got that much money back then. Must've been my birthday money from my aunts and uncles. I can still remember struggling to decide if I actually wanted to spend that much. My mom rushing me to make a decision because I was holding up the woman behind the counter. But I went for it. And I think looking back it was a good purchase. I was all about Luigi though. I wasn't going to play as a stupid girl. I remember the day we got Mario 3 also. My mom came home with groceries and we had to help put them away and I found it in one of the bags. As soon as we were done I popped it in and started playing. My mother eventually came in and saw us playing it, and was confused because she thought we already had the game or something. She asked where we got it and I said in the groceries. It was supposed to be our Christmas present. Haha. So we scored a bonus gift that year. since the surprise was gone.

1988 was a good year all around. For some reason, everything just felt right in 1988. I remember it very well.

Yeah, i remember reading that strategy in class, waiting for Christmas, saving my money. :)

It did? Where? How?

@@stripedrajang3571 It’s a reference to popular KZfaqr and Mario Maker legend videogamedunkey

@@garythehippopotamus9536 so basically, it's not a fact as Mr. Gigalodon stated, but just an opinion from this one person "videogamedunkey"?

@@stripedrajang3571 yeah. it's called a "joke".

@@midgetsausage , I see.

And yet the Sonic series sequels for SEGA were similar enough, unlike the completely different SMB2 game. At least with SMB3, once you are in the levels, they look more like the levels from the original SMB - with some refinements + the addition of an overworld map. SMB2 levels do not even resemble any Mario levels.

Pac in time was a reskin of furries of the fury

Sequels should have the same gameplay with added features and upgraded graphics. Otherwise might as well be an expansion pack.

When you eat the first poison mushroom in the real Super Mario Bros 2: "Welcome to Dark Souls Bitch!"

Everyone noticed the difference... hence why it's a classic.

lol

Maybe those Super Mario World cartoon writers knew something we didn't...

His material has just gotten better with time. I'd show it on TV if I had a channel.

Imagine a tv channel showing these... I bet it would be popular. Just make sure that it’s shown in the UK as well as the US.

hulkhuggett So because this isn't on another idiot box, its not a "real" documentary? This is better than any shit you'll see on "TV" I'll tell ya that.

Karnage Fails TBH TV is shit these days.

John Burns What are you people like...in your 90s? People actually still watch TV? Like cable TV? That shit is on the verge of total extinction. That's why the prices are so damn high. Did you know you can get a-la-carte tv through KZfaq and just pay for the channels you actually watch?

*wheeze*

That's a reference to the Mario World tv show

mama luigi gonna steal yo girl

shut the hell up

XD nice

***** It would be cool to see Wart again.

***** that Wart was squashed!

***** He was added into Link's Awakening. Along with alot of other Mario enemies.

***** Mouser was so rad. Dude wore sunglasses!

***** wait if you're there and I'm here.... OH DEAR!!!!

Ass bro I wasn't happy lol

Dat nam tho

Western devs just ask "Can we squeeze the American children for money?"

It sounds kinda sarcastic and offensive at first

I thought it was innocent too. They just wanted to appeal to the children cuz the real MB2 was too difficult....

IAmTheMikko Correct. There are 3 Mousers in Doki Doki Panic, and only 2 in SMB2.

It’s also my favourite. I watched my cousins play the game countless times as a kid and it has held a special place in my heart.

How could smb3 be better? Supa Mario Bruddas 2 is THE game of the year

Mario 3 was not better. After watching a few hours of gameplay I realized mario 3 was shorter levels with way too many single level enemies or items. Case in point most levels could be beaten in 30 seconds, and let me point out the goomba shoe, or the jelly fish are each only in one level.

@@Jnor116 it also regressed Mario 2’s advancements like different characters and a weaker ost

I'll be honest, while Mario 3 might be the better game overall, it got boring to me. Like, by the time I get to world 4-5, I'm starting to get tired of it. But I could sit there and play through all of Mario 2 in one sitting and never get bored.

I only ever used the Princess. SMB2 was not the best mario game.

Lol. Totally. But the others were fun to try. Luigi's feet during a jump, 😂.

@@jc.1191 He had wankers legs.

No matter what I always used Luigi

@@nicosalsa21 Why luigi peanced around like a drunk driver homosexual looking to fuck one of the turtles

I'm 46 as well! But being a Super Mario Bros. fan/fanatic I've known for a while! I even HAVE "Super Mario Bros.", "Super Mario Bros. 2(FDS), "All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.", "Super Mario USA" AND "Yume Koujou: Doki Doki Panic!" Not only did you have what he said in the video, but SMB2: The Lost Levels, you had to beat it 8 times to get to worlds A-D! Also if you DON'T warp you can get to World 9! But I denounce the notion that the graphics are similar to the original Super Mario Bros.! The ground graphics are different(looks more like rocks) and the text and bricks have a drop shadow effect!

If i recall when you best the game it shows it was a dream

No shit, he says it in the video.

HERE COMES THE BIG BOYS BAYBEEE

MASTAH PIECE

But Knack tho

O that's right, Knack 2 is out. KNACK 2 THE FUTURE BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Yes

@cauchamar Lol the word "diversity" offends you so much that you completely misunderstood what they meant. Future Mario games took a lot from Mario 2 USA, so therefore gave the series more variety. Please get your head out your ass and stop crying about "EVIL LEFTISTS".

@@R0cKs0l1dd You are right but in the same time Modern Leftists are pure evil.

***** Hello

***** Hey Gaming Historian, are you still doing "games you should play" cause that was a cool idea, but they just disappeared. They are so short and sweet, and I am always looking for more good games to play.

i like the new intro music!

***** YESSSSSS!!!

***** It's also the 30th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. as well.

Toad is PAPA! I knew it

But Knack 3D tho, that's gonna be the one

Video game dunkey

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