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FortuneCookie posted...

Controversial, but I think it was the right decision to make.

It gave us a number of Mario characters too like Toad, Bob-omb, Birdo, and the Shy Guys. The Mushroom Retainers appeared in the first game, but went unnamed until the second one.

Even Miyamoto thinks so. A lot of people keep saying that Mario USA is just reskinned Doki Doki Panic but Doki Doki Panic itself was built on top of the Original Mario 2 prototype that Nintendo forced Miyamoto to shelve because NoJ suits wanted a sequel out faster than what Miyamoto's original ideas were going to take. So he rehashed what they had in "vs Super Mario Bros" (the arcade game) to create the Lost Levels.

In reality, America got the Super Mario Bros 2 that Miyamoto wanted to make all along.