Since it was developed by the Mario team, Doki Doki Panic's colorful world, catchy music and gorgeous artwork fit in well with Nintendo's star characters. This was the game that Western audiences knew as Super Mario Bros. Instead, Nintendo used Doki Doki Panic, swapping the game's characters out for the Mario cast. That title wasn't released outside Japan. 2 was a totally different game, a set of super-difficult new levels built with the original game's engine and graphics. The game released in Japan as Super Mario Bros. The Mario sequel was originally released in Japan as Doki Doki Panic, starring a wholly different cast of characters. You may already know the rest of the story.

'As long as it's fun, anything goes,' Tanabe remembers Miyamoto saying. He suggested that Tanabe add in traditional side-scrolling gameplay and 'make something a little bit more Mario-like.' 'Miyamoto looked at it and said, 'Maybe we need to change this up,'' Tanabe recalled. And playing it with just one person wasn't very fun. While the prototype featured two players jumping, stacking up blocks to climb higher, and throwing each other around, the technical limitations of the primitive NES made it difficult to build a polished game out of this complex action.

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