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I think SMB2 was such a long departure from the original SMB. Everyone knows now that it was meant to be Doki Doki Panic! rather than the real SMB2. I think we should've just gotten what the Japanese SMB2 is. I don't like having to throw vegetables at guys to kill them. I prefer bloody head-stomping action!

SMB 2 was (is) actually not a very good game, not to mention way too hard. It also looked exactly the same as SMB, and by 1988 gamers were expecting games with better graphics. It would have been disastrous for Nintendo to release it.

As an aside, did you know SMB3 was released in Japan the same year SMB2 was in the US?

EDIT: Oh yeah, I'm looking forward to the next installment of your Bump N Jump review too!