Pulling a Mario 2


verb: refers to the act of media publishers (specifically video game designers) altering a work slightly, typically through character, in order to make it more suitable for foreign audiences, or to cash in on an unrelated franchise.

the phrase is a reference to nintendo’s rerelease of the j-panese nes game “doki doki panic” with mario characters as “super mario bros. 2” in america; subst-tuted because, supposedly, american distributors believed the j-panese version was too difficult, and too similar to the first mario nes t-tle.

also known as “pulling a doki doki panic” or “lost leveling”
when sequels to foreign films that were previously unreleased in america are brought there, a common cop out to the missing original is pulling a mario 2 on the sequel, and marketing it as the orignal.

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