Trivia / Super Mario Bros. 2

• Acting for Two: In Super Mario Advance, Charles Martinet provides the voices of Mario, Luigi, Mouser, Tryclyde, Fryguy, Clawgrip and Wart. Jen Taylor voices Peach, Toad and the three variants of Birdo (including Robirdo, who reuses Red Birdo's lines).
• Creator-Preferred Adaptation: Surprisingly, Miyamoto once stated his preference of this over the original Super Mario Bros. 2 (later dubbed The Lost Levels), to the point of considering it his favorite Mario game next to the first Super Mario Bros. Worthy of note, he was involved with both games, being producer of both.
• Demand Overload: The cartridge shortage as the NES grew in Western popularity meant this game was often out of stock, and parents allegedly drove across state to get their kids copies of this game.
• Divorced Installment: Super Mario Advance was originally a sequel to Super Mario Bros. Deluxe with the characters shouting the Working Titles Super Mario Bros. 2 Deluxe and Super Mario Bros. Deluxe 2.
• First Appearance: By way of Canon Immigrant, this game marked the Mario debut of Birdo and the 8-bits, many of which would be mainstays in the bestiary of the series (Shy Guys, Snifits, Pokeys, Ninjis, Bob-Ombs, and the less frequent Pidgits, Hoopsters, Flurries and Phanto).
• Manual Misprint: The manual calls Birdo "Ostro", and vice versa, as do the end credits. This was corrected in the Super Mario Advance.
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: In the 1992 Super Mario USA commercial, Birdo is voiced by Jun Donna. Both the character and the voice actress are transgender.
• Urban Legend of Zelda: When Super Mario Advance first came out, a popular rumor was that completing the Yoshi's Challenge quest would unlock Yoshi as a playable character. All that really happens is the egg from the title screen is replaced by a Yoshi.
• What Could Have Been:
  • In both the Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2 manuals, Bob-Omb◊ and Autobomb◊ are shown in areas they are not seen in the final game.
  • A leaked prototype shows a rare look at the game's transition, most notably that the Super Mario Bros. 2 indoor theme was originally not going to be a remix of the Doki Doki Panic version, but rather a different remix of the Super Mario Bros. underground tune (which, incidentally, would serve as the basis for the version heard in Super Mario Bros. 3). In addition, this video by Game Player's magazine suggests that Phanto would've been killed by a key at one point, but Phanto is invincible in the retail game just like Doki Doki Panic.
  • Super Mario Advance has a ton of unused voice clips for the main quartet and the announcer.

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