Let's Play 43: "Super Mario Bros. 2" Part 3 Quiz

Answer: Tweeters

Shyguys, Beezos, and Snifits are the only known members of the 8 Bits. All three enemies wear masks. Tweeter, a hopping bird, also wears a mask, but is not a member. The "Super Mario All-Stars" sprites for Shyguys and Tweeters have been found in beta versions of "Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island", but are not present in the final game.

"Super Mario Bros 2" introduced Shy Guys into the Mario lexicon. Strange, wearing masks, and members of the "8-Bit Club", they made their debut on the NES but have appeared across multiple platforms and games. "Paper Mario" sports the Black Shy Guys, although they are wearing grey masks instead of black. The Black Shy guys appear also as a playable character in "Mario Superstar Baseball" and the sequel "Sluggers".

Answer: Wart

He's big. He's ugly. He's green. He's also the king. At the end of "Super Mario Bros. 2", you have the final confrontation with... Wart? Nintendo relieved Bowser of final villain duties for "Super Mario Bros 2". The Dream Machine, three horns that have the power to make vegetables out of thin air (the solution to world's hunger!), expel vegetables for you to throw at Wart. Six hits and he's done. If you have Luigi or Princess Toadstool, you can actually jump behind Wart and avoid the bubbles he froths from his mouth, though you have to jump over him to get another vegetable. Still, back in the late 1980s when the game came out, that's how my brother and myself would always beat that evil master of dreams, Wart.

Answer: Bomb Ombs

Shyguys and Bomb Ombs have gone on to be main staples in the Mario series. The other enemies mentioned in that list have not really be reused. The bosses of "Super Mario Bros. 2", Mouser, Fryguy, Clawgrip, Triclyde, and Wart have not made an appearance since that game.

Answer: Catherine

His backstory has since been retconned by Nintendo, although Birdo is still notable for introducing gender issues into video games all the way back in 1988. The original game manual said that he thought he was a girl and would rather be known as Birdetta. Subsequent printings of the game manual cut the Birdetta line but still said he wished he was a girl.

In the Japanese version of the manual Nintendo states Birdo's name is Catherine but he would rather be known as Cassie

Answer: Four

There are four colors of Birdo. The first is Pink Birdo, and fires eggs. The second is Red Birdo, who first appears in 2-2, and shoots eggs and fire. The third is Grey Birdo, and he first appears in 5-1. He fires only fireballs and must be defeated by mushroom blocks.

The last is Green Birdo, first appearing in 6-1. Like the Grey Birdo, fires only fireballs and must be defeated by throwing mushroom blocks at him.

Answer: 3-3

According to the game manual, the Red Sniffit is "a member of the "8-bits." He wears a mask and spits the bullets of evil dreams from his mouth." What is notable about the Red Sniffit is he is truly alone in the World of Dreams. He appears only once, in World 3-3, where he walks off a high platform onto lower platforms.

Answer: Tryclyde

Wart apparently brought in some outside help when he conquered the World of Dreams. The story is he created monsters with the Dream Machine. However, here is what the manual says about Tryclyde:

"He was once an outsider, but now he is one of Wart's helpers since he impressed Wart with his cunning brain and offensive capabilities which are three times normal strength."

Answer: Three

The Dream machine shoots out three vegetables: a large turnip that appears Asian, a Pumpkin, and a vegetable that looks similar to a laboratory breaker with eyes. The pumpkin and the breaker do not appear in any previous stages. The Asian vegetable appears only in 7-1 and 7-2.

Answer: Mouser

It is become well known with the advent of the Internet that "Super Mario Brothers 2" was originally released as a Japan exclusive called "Doki Doki Panic". Back when this game first came out, though, we didn't know this was "Doki Doki Panic". We just knew we had to beat Wart. "Super Mario 2" also graced the first issue of "Nintendo Power", with Mario's colors famously inverted. The snake's name is Tryclyde.

In the "Super Mario Bros. Advance" Game Boy Advance port of "Super Mario Bros. 2", Nintendo introduced a new boss called Robobirdo as the final boss of World 3 which dislocated Mouser who was the original boss. In World 6, Nintendo replaced Tryclide with Mouser.

Also, World 1-1 features the most changes from the original game to the Game Boy Advance version.

Answer: Mamu

Wart, the final boss from "Super Mario Bros. 2", appears to Link to help him on his journey to wake the Wind Fish. Link knows him as Mamu, Wart's Japanese name. Like Zora in "A Link to the Past", Mamu doesn't give his secrets away for free; you must pay him 300 rupees to learn his music, a jam song entitled "Frog's Song of the Soul". Both "Super Mario Bros 2" and "Link's Awakening" take place in a dream world, so it is quite likely that the land of Subcon and Koholint Island, where "Link's Awakening" takes place, is somehow connected.

Although never referenced as "Mamu" in-game, there is a reference to Wart's Japanese name. Autobombs are like Bullet Bills from the original "Super Mario Bros.", although they do not shoot bullets but rather fire. Shyguys ride them. They have "M" emblazoned on their side, standing for "Mamu", Wart's name in Japan.