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Originally Posted by Silock
2 was awesome
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2 was, in fact, a remake of the Japanese game "Doki Doki Panic". They just redid the character maps/sprites to make it look like Mario.
The "original" Mario 2 was too much like the first Super Mario Brothers, and it was quite a bit more difficult, so Nintendo of America thought it would not be popular here.
It was released with the SNES title Super Mario All-Stars as "The Lost Levels"
http://www.themushroomkingdom.net/smb2_ddp.shtml