When Mario first came over to America, he was still known as Jumpman. But one day, while the head of Nintendo (here's the part I'm unsure about) was thinking of a name for Jumpman, his landlord, who looked just like Jumpman, came in. His name was Mario. Thus, our hero was named Mario. I'm not %100 percent sure if that story is true, but I'm pretty sure Mario was named after NOA H's landlord.

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A while after that, in 1986 to be precise, Super Mario Bros. 2 was born. It was just like the first one, 'cept Mario stopped more easily and Luigi jumped higher and ran faster. This was not a 2-player game, had way tougher stages, and 9 levels. This beauty wouldn't be released in America, though. NOA thought it would be too hard for American audiences(remember, you couldn't save Mario games back then). So NOA translated a game called Dokki Dokki Panic to the Marioverse instead, and was finished in 1988. It is now considered many a player's fav Mario game, 'cuz it was so different from all the others. I don't know when, but some time after that and before Super Mario All-Stars, NOJ found out, and included bad guys from that game in future games. Also, their version o' SMA-S was exactly the same, 'cept the language.

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Now fast foward to the year 1988 (I suppose; once again I'm not sure) Nintendo needed a game to show off the Game Boy! QUICK! They whipped up Super Mario Land with the interesting (Superball) Flower item, and finished it without Myamato's usual part in the Mario game. QUICK, QUICK! They shipped it over to America just in time for the big showoff in 1989. They made a few translations(items and people), and put together a manual. The enemy names were very interesting--Chibibos being the Goombas, Giras being the Bullet Bills, and after that every enemy was new but didn't have an American name either.
Note: Goomba's REAL Japanese name is Kirubu. Chibibo is just a look-alike. I'm not sure about Bill's name, but I'm pretty sure his Japanese name isn't Gira.

Now let's go to the beginning o' 1991, when Super Mario World has just come out. Many discover the hidden Yellow Switch Palace atop Kappa Mountain the first day they play the game. Kappa Mountain... sounds sorta familiar, like Koopa! Because that's where Koopa came from. A Kappa was an evil turtle in Japanese legend, and for the Mario games they changed it to Koopa.

Zip foward to September 24th, 2000. Nintendo has made it's third name change for Super Mario RPG 2. Game Cube had an amazing showoff a few weeks ago. And I've finished this report.~~~

Note: After researching this once more, I found out that Japan had SMB USA for the Famicom(their NES) which was our SMB2 after we got it.
Also, this is from my old site where no one would work with me.

SMB2(Western) also appeared in the Japanese Super Mario Bros. All-Stars.

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