The American version of Super Mario Bros. 2 was released in 1988. The game was a critical and commercial success, becoming one of the best selling games on the original NES system. It was also released in 1993 for the Super Nintendo, as part of the All-Stars game pack. Of course as kids, we didn’t know this was a reworking of the Japanese title Doki Doki Panic, but that’s a story for another time.