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Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/June 3, 2022 by Wehwalt (talk) 15:36, 2 May 2022 (UTC)



Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels is a 1986 platform game sequel to Super Mario Bros. (1985) by Nintendo. Designed to be similar in style and gameplay for players who had mastered the original, players control Mario or Luigi to jump between platforms and rescue the Princess from Bowser. It became the most popular game in Japan for the Famicom Disk System, selling about 2.5 million copies. Deemed too difficult for North American audiences, Nintendo of America instead retrofitted another game as the region's sequel. The 1993 compilation Super Mario All-Stars became the Japanese sequel's first international release, renamed as The Lost Levels. Reviewers regarded the release as an extension of the original's difficulty progression. The Lost Levels is remembered among the most difficult Nintendo games and regarded as a precursor to the franchise's Kaizo subculture in which fans create and share ROM hacks featuring nearly impossible levels.
 * Most recent similar article(s) – video games: Colossal Cave Adventure (May 17/TBD), Sonic '06 (April 8)
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 * Promoted: 2017-06-24 (never run)
 * Reasons for nomination: June 3rd is its 36th anniversary of release. It was nominated last year for its 35th but looks like an accident that it didn't run.
 * Support as nominator. czar  06:53, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. Panini!  • 🥪 14:16, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. Captain  Galaxy  11:46, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Support Great Mercian (talk) 16:16, 21 April 2022 (UTC)