SMB 2 = Dream Factory: Doki Doki Panic

You might have noticed how different Super Mario Bros 2 is from all the other Mariogames? That´s because it wasn´t a Mario game at first! When Nintendo had released the japanese Super Mario Bros 2, Nintendo of America didn´t thought that the game was good enough for the western market because it was almost identical to Super Mario Bros 1. They took a game that they and Fuji Tv had produced called Dream Factory: Doki Doki Panic for the Famicom Disk System. Nintendo bought the game from Fuji TV and made a few changes and viola, Super Mario Bros 2 (or Super Mario USA as Nintendo of Japan named it)! A long time afterwards, when Nintendo made the collection of Mario games, Super Mario Allstars, they put both Super Mario Bros 2 games in and the japanese version was then called Super Mario Bros - the Lost Levels!

The Dream Factory disk!

The characters: Dream Factory SMB2 Special ability: Allround Special ability: Jump high Special ability: Fast Special ability: Hover in the air

The changes The original story from Dream Factory is about two children that reads a big book late at night in their bed and suddenly they gets sucked into the book and the four arabian heroes, two guys with turbans and two girls appears and jumps after into the book to save them. The heroes have a lot in common with Mario, Luigi, Princess and Toad from SMB2. Allthough that the look of the heroes has changed they have the same abilities as their equals in SMB2. One of them can hover in the air just like the Princess and some jump high and some low. The enemies are exactly the same as in SMB2 except for some enemies, The eagle head that guards the end of all the levels was in Dream Factory a big ancient looking stonemask. The bottles that you throw to access the door to the dark side of Sub-Con was in the original Aladdin-style lamps and the Mushroom that appears at certain places on the dark side and gives you extra energy was a big heart in Dream Factory. The shell is big smiling black head instead and when you find an extralife, a head of the current character appears, instead of the 1-up mushroom. The Music in the dark side of Sub-Con has also changed and was from the beginning an arabian style jingle instead. Otherwise the music is exactly the same. The ending is also all little bit different: In Dream Factory the ending sequence stops when your character releases the dream creatures from the bottle but, in the "Mariofied" version Nintendo has put in two extra scenes including the one showing Mario asleep.

The items

The power up mushroom found in the dark side of Sub-Con was a heart in Dream Factory.	The bottles in SMB2 was orginally a Aladdin lamp!	The eaglehead warp was an African mask.	The shell that was hidden in the ground in SMB2 was instead a funny looking smiling face!	Instead of the 1-up mushroom, Dream Factory had an icon of the current character as a extralife symbol.

(More or less) The same scene in Doki Doki Panic (left) and Super Mario Bros 2 (right)

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