Super Mario Bros 2

About This Game

Gameplay

Super Mario Bros. 2 is a 2D side-scrolling platform game. The objective is to navigate the player's character through the dream world Subcon and defeat the main antagonist Wart. Before each stage, the player chooses one of four protagonists: Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Toadstool. All four characters can run, jump, and climb ladders or vines, but each character possesses a different combination of abilities that causes them to be controlled differently. Toad has the greatest speed and strength, allowing him to pick up items quickly, but has the lowest jumping height; Luigi can jump the highest, but moves slightly slower and has weaker strength; Princess Toadstool can float for short distances but has the lowest speed and strength; and Mario has intermediate speed, jumping height, and strength. Unlike Super Mario Bros., this game has no multiplayer functionality and no time limit. The original only scrolls from left to right, but this game can also scroll right to left, and even vertically in some areas. Unlike other Mario games, the characters cannot defeat enemies by jumping on them but can stand on, pick up, and throw most enemies at each other to defeat them.

History

Nintendo originally released a different game called Super Mario Bros. 2 for the Family Computer Disk System in 1986 (later released as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels for Super NES as part of Super Mario All-Stars). Its engine is an enhanced Super Mario Bros., with the same gameplay and more complex level designs, character features, and weather features. Some of the advanced level content had been culled from Vs. Super Mario Bros., a 1986 coin-operated arcade version of the original Super Mario Bros. for NES. All of these factors combined to yield an incremental game design with significantly higher difficulty.