

** What they are maybe less known for (outside of Japan, anyway) are a series of licensed Famicom-to-Japanese-PC conversions of some of Nintendo’s popular first-party titles primarily targeting the popular NEC PC-88. They brought us such classics as Adventure Island, Bonk’s Adventure, Dungeon Explorer, and Faxanadu… along with such ““classics”” as Keith Courage in Alpha Zones and China Warrior. They were probably best known initially for their multi-platform Bomberman series, and for their role in helping to provide much of the games catalogue for the TurboGrafx-16 / PC-Engine. “A Host of Black Magic Traps That Only a Koopa King Can Devise.”īefore Hudson Soft became known as “the Mario Party team” and associated somewhat synonymously with Nintendo, they were a developer with a rich variety of different series across different platforms. ** And by “it,” I primarily mean the Sharp X1 version, for reasons we will get into later in this article. ** Prepare yourselves, paisanos: It’s time for the Super Mario Bros. But with weaker hardware and a third-party developer behind it, would it meet the lofty standards set by the original Super Mario Bros.? Probably not! But hey, we’re gonna play it anyway.
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2 – in either its American or Japanese formats – weren’t actually the direct sequels to the original Super Mario Bros.? What if I said that Nintendo has more or less managed to successfully bury a Mario platformer game in the depths of obscurity, never to be officially acknowledged in the years since its release? What if I noted that this game marked some of the earliest working relations between Nintendo and Hudson Soft, who would go on to become one of Nintendo’s most trusted third-party developers? And what if I told you that these are all slightly exaggerated points I’m making right now, but that the story behind this particular game is still pretty interesting regardless?īefore Japan even had a chance to take a crack at the Famicom sequel the States were never meant to see, Sharp X1 and NEC PC-8801 computer owners were treated to their very own installment in the series. What if I told you that Super Mario Bros. Besides: We’ve got bigger Cheep Cheeps to fry today. I made a solemn vow that after hearing this story from a hundred different other people, I’d never inflict it on anyone myself. Look, I apologize, but if you’re genuinely not sure what I’m talking about here? I have to ask that you research it on your own time - just this one time. 2 and the ““secret”” that it’s a sprite swap of Doki Doki Panic and blah blah blah The Lost Levels et cetera et cetera et cetera. High contrast / quality art by doubt we’re all familiar with the story of the American version of Super Mario Bros.
