Let's Play 09: "Super Mario 2: Lost Levels" Pt. 1 Quiz

Answer: False

Sometime in 1985, Nintendo gave Hudson Soft licensing rights to produce a sequel to "Super Mario Bros." for the PC88, a Japanese computer. In 1986, a few months before Nintendo released "The Lost Levels" in the Japan market, Hudson released "Super Mario Bros. Special", an all new game based off the original "Super Mario Bros." title. Due to limitations of the PC88, this game does not feature screen scrolling, and so is a much different experience.

The game has never been re-released in any form, either in Japan or outside of Japan.

Answer: World 3

In the original "Super Mario Bros.", it long been the dream of many a player to jump over the flag pole. In "Super Mario Bros. 2", that dream becomes a reality, though perhaps nightmare would be more accurate.

In World 3-1, you can jump over the flag pole by jumping on a green trampoline On World 3-2, you can do the same thing by hitting invisible coin blocks. However, if you jump over the flagpole in World 3-1, it will lead you to a negative warp zone, going back to World 1.

Answer: Game Boy Color

"Super Mario Bros. 2" was released as an unlockable bonus titled "Super Mario Bros. For Super Players" in the Game Boy Color title, "Super Mario Bros. Deluxe". However, this was not a release of the Famicom Disk System version. All of the graphics in the port were changed to be identical to "Super Mario Bros.", and World 9 and A, B, C, and D were all cut.

In Japan, Nintendo released "Super Mario Bros. 2" as part of their "Famicom Mini" series on the Gameboy Advance.

Answer: Defeat the game eight times

Unlike the SNES release, you must defeat "Super Mario Bros 2" eight times to gain access to Worlds A, B, C, and D. Like "Super Mario Bros. Allstars", if you beat the game without warping, World 9 is unlocked. Each time you defeat the game, a yellow star appears on the title screen. You can get up to twenty stars on the title screen.

In the SNES version, after beating World 8, either World 9 opens or World A appears.

Answer: Two

There are two worlds that take place at night: World 2 and World 7. World C also takes place at night.

Answer: 7-1

World 7-1 is unique because it is the only level in the game that once you exit the initial underground coin section you are taken to an overworld section that is NOT part of the main level. You can only access this overworld terrain by entering the bonus area via the pipe.

Answer: 7-2

World 7 is unique as both World 7-1 and 7-2 use the bonus areas in ways not seen in any other world. In 7-2, unless you enter the first pipe to the underground coin area, the stage will continue to loop.

Answer: Three

There are three levels that feature underwater swimming areas: 4-1, 6-1 (pipe), and 8-1. 8-1, however, features a negative warp at the end of the swimming section, which will take you back to World 5.

Answer: Two

"Super Mario Bros." famously featured warp zones. These special areas allowed you to skip levels and get further in the game. It is possible in "Super Mario Bros." to get from World 1 to World 8 by playing a mere four levels. You play World 1-1, warp in World 1-2 to 4-1, then in 4-2 warp to World 8.

However, in "Super Mario Bros 2: The Lost Levels", Nintendo introduced the idea of negative warp zones, which take you back to earlier points in the game instead of advancing you. If you are going to for points, this can be beneficial, though now most people do not care about points.

There are a total of nine warp zones, of which two are negative warp zones.

There are warp zones: World 3-1 will take you back to World 1, and World 8-1 will take you back to World 5.

World 1-2 contains three individual warp zones: one that will take you to World 2, one to World 3, and one that will take you to World 4.

In World 5-1, there is a warp to World 6.

In World 5-2, there is a Warp to World 7.

World A-2 has a warp zone to World B.

World A-3 has a warp zone to World C which you get to by jumping over the flag pole.

World B-4 has a warp zone to World D and is the only castle in the game to have a Warp Zone.

Answer: Howard Lincoln

One of the principal sources for this information is David Sheff's book "Game Over". Howard Lincoln, after playing "Super Mario Bros. 2", hated the gate due to the excessive challenge. Lincoln did not think the game would sell well in the United States, so Nintendo transformed "Doki Doki Panic" into a Mario game. He is now Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Seattle Mariners baseball for Nintendo former chief Hiroshi Yamauchi.

Nintendo would not publish the original Famicom Disk System outside of Japan for over twenty one years. The game first appeared in 1986 in Japan, and America and the PAL region did not get the original 8-Bit version until 2007 for the Virtual Console.

Another famous Howard in Nintendo lore is Howard Phillips who appears in the early issues of "Nintendo Power" in the comic strip "Howard and Nestor". There is also a photograph of Phillips next to a TV that has the main title screen of the (American-European) "Super Mario Bros. 2".