Super Mario Bros. 2

Also known as SMB2, Super Mario Bros 2, Super Mario Brothers 2, Mario 2, Super Mario 2, Super Mario USA, SMB 2, Mario Bros. 2

1988 platform video game developed by Nintendo

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Super Mario Bros. 2 is a video game developed by Nintendo R&D4 and published by Nintendo and Playtronic. Released in 1988, it belongs to the Mario Bros. and Mario franchises. The title is classified as a platformer, adventure, and action game, featuring single-player game modes.

The game has been released on multiple platforms, including the NES, SNES, Wii, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, Arcade, and Family Computer. It received a rating of 3.92 on RAWG and a rating of 77 from 554 users on IGDB. Publication dates associated with the title include October 9, 1988, November 15, 1988, and April 28, 1989.

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Game data

Released: 1988-10-09
User rating: 3.92 / 5
Genres: Platformer, Adventure, Action
Platforms: Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, Wii, SNES, NES

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Game details · IGDB

77User score · 554 ratings

Super Mario Bros. 2, 2D platformer and sequel to Super Mario Bros. (1985), features 4 selectable characters (Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Toad) as they navigate the dream world of Subcon to defeat the evil toad king Wart. Super Mario Bros. 2 features different ways interacting with enemies and the world, including an object carrying mechanic and more intricate level designs.

Released: 1988
Genres: Platform, Adventure
Platforms: Arcade, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, Family Computer, Wii U, Nintendo Entertainment System
Game modes: Single player
Franchise: Mario Bros., Mario
Developer: Nintendo R&D4
Publisher: Nintendo, Playtronic

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Key facts

Developer: Nintendo R&D4
Publisher: Nintendo
Director: Kensuke Tanabe
Producer: Shigeru Miyamoto
Designers: Kensuke Tanabe, Yasuhisa Yamamura , Hideki Konno
Programmers: Toshihiko Nakago, Yasunori Taketani, Toshio Iwawaki
Artists: Tadashi Sugiyama , Yōichi Kotabe
Composer: Koji Kondo
Series: Super Mario
Platforms: Famicom Disk System ( Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic ), Nintendo Entertainment System
Release: October 9, 1988 Famicom Disk System ( Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic ) , JP : July 10, 1987 NES/Famicom , NA : October 9, 1988 PAL : April 28, 1989 JP : September 14, 1992
Genre: Platform
Mode: Single-player

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: video game
Country of origin: Japan
Series: Super Mario
Based on: Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic
Director: Kensuke Tanabe
Composer: Koji Kondo
Producer: Shigeru Miyamoto
Developer: Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development
Platform: Nintendo Switch
Game mode: single-player video game

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publication date: 1992-09-14
characters: Birdo
input device: gamepad
distributed by: Nintendo eShop
different from: Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
superfamicom.org URL: superfamicom.org/famicom/info/super-mario-bros-2
title: Super Mario USA
Commons category: Super Mario Bros. 2
social media followers: 5000

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Encyclopedic overview

Super Mario Bros. 2 is a 1988 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. After the smash hit Super Mario Bros. in 1985, Nintendo quickly released an adaptation of the original with advanced difficulty titled Super Mario Bros. 2 for its market in Japan in 1986. However, Nintendo of America found this sequel too similar to its predecessor, and its difficulty too frustrating, for the nascent American market. This prompted a second Super Mario Bros. sequel based on Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic, Nintendo's 1987 Family Computer Disk System game that had been based on a prototype platforming game and released as an advergame for Fuji Television's Yume Kōjō '87 media technology expo. The characters, enemies, and themes in Doki Doki Panic have the mascots and theme of the festival, and were adapted into the Super Mario theme to make a Western Super Mario Bros. sequel.

Super Mario Bros. 2 was a resounding success, becoming the fifth-best-selling game on the NES, and was critically well-received for its design aspects and for differentiating the Super Mario series. It was re-released in Japan for the Family Computer in 1992 as Super Mario USA , and has been remade twice, first included in the Super Mario All-Stars (1993) collection for the Super NES, and as Super Mario Advance (2001), released as a launch game for the Game Boy Advance. It is included as part of the Virtual Console and Nintendo Classics services.

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