Super Mario Bros. 2

Oh how I loved this game. Where oh where can I find my old baddies from that game now? I believe Wart made an appearance on the GameBoy title The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening as a boss. Bob Omb also survived and has carried over into numerous games. But I miss Tweeter and Snifit. Those cute little Flurries running about sliding this way and that trying to catch me. Where are they now? Who can forget those memorable battles with Mouser, Clawgrip, Tryclyde and Fryguy. We need more Nintendo! At the very least I'd like them to put Toki Toki Panic, which is what we know here as SMB 2, on the Virtual Console. It would be interesting to play this game the way Japan knows it. But until then...

I like the little Toad animation, how'd you get that on there? Anyways, I also really enjoyed this game as a kid and I agree that one of the best parts about it was the number of new memorable enemies introduced into the series Personally, I thought Fry Guy was the coolest back then, but others like Mouser and Tryclide were great as well. (Heh, I called Fry Guy cool) Despite that it was not originally a Mario game, all those characters will stilll be considered Mario characters to me. (Especially with their cameos on the Mario cartoons which I watched all the time as a kid and own now on DVD, yay for geekhood! ) Although, Mario 2 was not my favorite (That belongs to Mario 3), I will always have a special place in my heart for this wonderful title.

The little animated Toad I found on Photobucket. I share some of your geekhood. I have the Super Mario Bros. 3 DVD, Super Mario Bros. Super Show DVD, and The Legend of Zelda. Still need to get Volume 2 of Super Show and Captain N. I really like how Shout is bringing out a bunch of classic stuff that might not make it to DVD otherwise.

Yeah, Shout is awesome for bringing out these childhood memories on DVD. I remember how excited I was every time I got to see my favorite characters come on the television. I actually just recently finished my collection by purchasing the Super Mario World/Captain N 3rd season collection. So now I have the entire series of Mario, Zelda, and Captain N cartoons. (honestly I'm not sure whether to be proud of that fact or slightly embarrassed by how geeky I am) Either way, though, I love them if for nothing else than the nostalgia (but I have to ask what the artists of Captain N were thinking when they made Megaman green and King Hippo blue?) Oh well, my sister seems to enjoy them as well despite her not watching them when they first came out.

Let's not forget the appearance of nijis (little ninjas shaped like Starfy,) in the last level of Super Mario 3. I can't think of another place they've shown up. When I saw them in SMB3, I shouted "NIJI!" I thought it was amusingly random of Nintendo to throw them in there.

To be totally honest, I was one of the last kids on my block to get an NES, and we got the NES/SMB2 pack, so SMB2 was teh fist NES game I actually owned.  even thought it wasn't really a mario game (japanese import) it still was fun with very good gameplay mechanics and variety that you didn't see much back in the NES days until SMB2 came out.

Antilles wrote:

Let's not forget the appearance of nijis (little ninjas shaped like Starfy,) in the last level of Super Mario 3. I can't think of another place they've shown up. When I saw them in SMB3, I shouted "NIJI!" I thought it was amusingly random of Nintendo to throw them in there.

I thought they were called Ninji. *Checks to confirm*...yes. They are Ninji. I don't remember them being in SMB3 *Again checking* I'm not finding any confirmation of Ninji in SMB3. I played the game last October through all the levels and don't recall seeing any.

Really? This game? Oh uh.........kaaaaaay! I played this before and beat it, but never seem to enjoy it alot because it's just the stages are kinda easy, a bit hard but not possible to be angry at, and the boss is just a joke. The character are pretty cool to play as, but I think I like Toad the best because not only he runs faster but also can pick up stuff faster as well. Ahhhh good times!