History VideoGame / SuperMarioBros2

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: This was the first game in which Peach was a playable character, and she's quite useful.

* BiggerOnTheInside: Certain vases have large insides, including one that has sand, making it's innards ''much'' taller than its outer size.

* KaizoTrap: World 7-2 has the Hawkmouth gate attack you when you pick up the crystal ball. Three whacks with the Mushroom Blocks will neutralize it and allow you to proceed afterwards.

The result wasn't quite as radical as ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'', and for many fans, it's still a beloved part of the series. In addition, the game introduced many of the [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario series]]' iconic enemies (such as Shy Guys and Bob-ombs) and abilities (such as picking up and carrying items and enemies), and [[DivergentCharacterEvolution it further developed and differentiated the four main characters]] (providing Luigi with a taller, lankier appearance, giving Peach her ability to float, and actually codifying Mario as the JackOfAllStats for the first time). It's also, gameplay-wise, Shigeru Miyamoto's [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/15/this-is-shigeru-miyamotos-favorite-mario-game favorite Mario game.]] So hey everyone pretty much came out a winner here.

* UnwinnableByInsanity: In one of the rooms where you must dig through sand, it's possible to strand yourself into a dead end by digging up every sand block until they're out of your jumping range. Since the game has no timer, you're stuck there. Fortunately, the devs accounted for this; see TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything above.

[[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1358562997/gamemaster-howards-know-it-all/posts/326815 After playtesting by Howard Phillips of Nintendo of America]], it was decided that ''[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]'' just wouldn't work for American gamers, since it was both basically a retread of the first game and [[PlatformHell just too]] NintendoHard.

[[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1358562997/gamemaster-howards-know-it-all/posts/326815 After playtesting by Howard Phillips of Nintendo of America]], it was decided that ''[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosTheLostLevels Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]'' just wouldn't work for American gamers, since it was [[PlatformHell just too]] NintendoHard.

Meanwhile, ''VideoGame/DokiDokiPanic'' started life as a prototype for Super Mario Bros. 2 with Mario characters. It was rebranded with Yume Koujou characters to meet a licensing agreement with FujiTV, and then ''re-''rebranded when Nintendo of America rejected the Japanese SMB2 to match the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' characters, and did a few more nips and tucks.

Meanwhile, ''Yume Koujou: Doki Doki Panic'' started life as a prototype for Super Mario Bros. 2 with Mario characters. It was rebranded with Yume Koujou characters to meet a licensing agreement with FujiTV, and then ''re-''rebranded when Nintendo of America rejected the Japanese SMB2 to match the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' characters, and did a few more nips and tucks.

But they didn't have the time to make an entirely new game, so they redid the sprites for ''VideoGame/DokiDokiPanic'' (also produced by Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto), to match the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' characters, and did a few more nips and tucks. The result wasn't quite as radical as ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'', and for many fans, it's still a beloved part of the series. In addition, the game introduced many of the [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario series]]' iconic enemies (such as Shy Guys and Bob-ombs) and abilities (such as picking up and carrying items and enemies), and [[DivergentCharacterEvolution it further developed and differentiated the four main characters]] (providing Luigi with a taller, lankier appearance, giving Peach her ability to float, and actually codifying Mario as the JackOfAllStats for the first time). It's also, gameplay-wise, Shigeru Miyamoto's [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/15/this-is-shigeru-miyamotos-favorite-mario-game favorite Mario game.]] So hey everyone pretty much came out a winner here.

But they didn't have the time to make an entirely new game, so they redid the sprites for an unrelated game[[note]]not quite. ''Yume Koujou: Doki Doki Panic'' started life as a prototype for Super Mario Bros. 2, with Mario characters! It was rebranded with Yume Koujou characters to meet a licensing agreement with FujiTV, and then ''re-''rebranded when Nintendo of America rejected the Japanese SMB2[[/note]] ''VideoGame/DokiDokiPanic'' (also produced by Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto), to match the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' characters, and did a few more nips and tucks. The result wasn't quite as radical as ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'', and for many fans, it's still a beloved part of the series. In addition, the game introduced many of the [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario series]]' iconic enemies (such as Shy Guys and Bob-ombs) and abilities (such as picking up and carrying items and enemies), and [[DivergentCharacterEvolution it further developed and differentiated the four main characters]] (providing Luigi with a taller, lankier appearance, giving Peach her ability to float, and actually codifying Mario as the JackOfAllStats for the first time). It's also, gameplay-wise, Shigeru Miyamoto's [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/15/this-is-shigeru-miyamotos-favorite-mario-game favorite Mario game.]] So hey everyone pretty much came out a winner here.

But they didn't have the time to make an entirely new game, so they redid the sprites for an unrelated game, ''VideoGame/DokiDokiPanic'' (also produced by Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto), to match the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' characters, and did a few more nips and tucks. The result wasn't quite as radical as ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'', and for many fans, it's still a beloved part of the series. In addition, the game introduced many of the [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario series]]' iconic enemies (such as Shy Guys and Bob-ombs) and abilities (such as picking up and carrying items and enemies), and [[DivergentCharacterEvolution it further developed and differentiated the four main characters]] (providing Luigi with a taller, lankier appearance, giving Peach her ability to float, and actually codifying Mario as the JackOfAllStats for the first time). It's also, gameplay-wise, Shigeru Miyamoto's [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/15/this-is-shigeru-miyamotos-favorite-mario-game favorite Mario game.]] So hey everyone pretty much came out a winner here.

* TagalongKid: Toad became this for the first time ever.

* MeaningfulName: Subcon... [[spoiler:subconscious]].

Describe ''VideoGame/DokiDokiPanic'', uh...''Super Mario USA'', um...''Super Mario Bros. 2'' here.

* BootstrappedTheme: The Subspace theme is the ''Super Mario Bros.'' main overworld theme, minus the recognizable seven-note intro.

** Ninjis appear in the very last corridor of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' before Bowser, though they become an enemy you can simply stomp on to defeat.
*** Ninjis ''do'' however get a lot of use in rom hacks of the above.
*** They are also seen in the first PaperMario. While it's dubious as to how "canon" that series is, it's at least always pulling from the more accepted elements of Mario "canon".
** Pansers, which resemble fire-spitting Piranha Plants, are the first of four Piranha Plant-like fire-spitting enemy seen in the Mario series, even if these particular enemies aren't seen again. (Arguably, they're the most dangerous of the four, as some of them can ''walk.)''

* DarkerAndEdgier: It arguably has a MUCH higher concentration of NightmareFuel than Mario 1. Phantos especially.

* HitboxDissonance: The player characters have life energy, but in order to connect the game to the rest of the series, they shrink when they only have one hit point left. This merely makes them ugly and does not actually reduce the hitbox.

* AllJustADream: [[DoubleSubversion Doubly subverted!]] The instruction manual implies that Mario first dreams up Subcon, then sees it for real on a picnic with his friends. But the game's ending explicitly shows that he dreamed it all.
** Seeing as it's the world of dreams, it's possible that Mario rescued the kingdom while asleep.
** The game's sequel, BS Super Mario USA, implies that the events of the game did happen, and that Mario was actually within a dream world.

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''Super Mario Bros. 2'' was later remade with SNES graphics as part of the ''Super Mario All-Stars'' CompilationRerelease, and then with further updates as the first of the ''Super Mario Advance'' remakes.

* SchmuckBait: The WebVideo/GameGrumps illustrate a good example [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehWyATm7ZVg here:]] sure, you can get all those coins, but if you expect there to be bombs in any of that row of five plants, you're wrong.