Before there was Super Mario Bros. 2, there was Doki Doki Panic. Any religious reader of Nintendo Power magazine back in the early 1990s will tell you that, of course, and myself among them! (Need I remind you of [1] this?) But [2] this is a fun little romp for any Nintendo fan, to see the evolution of Mario2 out of this little game that is, except for its conception as base-design for Mario 2, inconsequential.

Before there was Super Mario Bros. 2, there was Doki Doki Panic. Any religious reader of Nintendo Power magazine back in the early 1990s will tell you that, of course, and myself among them! (Need I remind you of [3] this?) But [4] this is a fun little romp for any Nintendo fan, to see the evolution of Mario2 out of this little game that is, except for its conception as base-design for Mario 2, inconsequential.