As mentioned before, the sprites look close to their NES and SNES counterparts, at the cost of visibility: bigger sprites means not seeing as far ahead on the small, crowded screen. Only, everything is bigger and more detailed. If you were won over by the weirdness of the first game, you are still getting that here. Not to mention that Mario doesn't cash 100 coins for an extra life anymore, but keeps up to 999 of them to blow at the casino.

Not only do you fight fish-bull things or ants with bazookas on their heads, but the worlds Mario visits include space and a giant mechanical statue of himself, instead of your usual ice/desert/fire worlds. Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins is close to being as weird as the original. So for the sequel, R&D1 looked at what Miyamoto's team was doing for the console Mario games and gave us a more traditional entry: the Fire Flower allowed Mario to shoot the familiar fireballs, Koopas would hide in their shells when you jumped on them and you could them kick them toward enemies or pick them up, the Piranha Plants and Goombas looked more like they did in Super Mario 3 or World. Now while you could shrug it off and keep playing as a kid because it was frickin' Mario, or as an adult because it felt fresh and interesting, many were still craving a more traditional Mario game on their portable system. things looked familiar but were decidedly different.

Turtles would explode when you jumped on them, the Flower power-up gave you a ball that bounced all over the place. Everyone agrees: the first Super Mario Land is really, really weird.

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