Nintendo Entertainment System · 1988
Super Mario Bros. 2
スーパーマリオUSA
- Developer
- Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development
- Publisher
- Nintendo of America
- Composer
- Koji Kondo
- Country
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Series
- Super Mario
- Release year
- 1988
- Alternate titles
- Super Mario Bros 2 · Super Mario Brothers 2
Standard · 🇺🇸 US · CIB: 121,9% (Fri Apr 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)). Standard · 🇪🇺 EU · CIB: 130,7% (Fri Apr 24 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)).
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| Región | SEALED | CIB | LOOSE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 US | €1,926.44 €1,637.47 – €2,215.41 | €64.40 €54.74 – €74.06 | €19.15 €16.28 – €22.02 |
| 🇪🇺 EU | €251.70 €213.95 – €289.45 | €54.10 €45.99 – €62.21 | €16.86 €14.33 – €19.39 |
Prices show the median of recorded sales (source: eBay + Heritage auctions + PriceCharting aggregates, the same data that feeds your portfolio). Differences between regions reflect rarity: Japanese AES copies are typically 2–4× cheaper than their European equivalents because they had a much larger print run.
Description
Super Mario Bros. 2 is a 1988 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. After the smash hit Super Mario Bros. in 1985, Nintendo quickly released an adaptation of the original with advanced difficulty titled Super Mario Bros. 2 for its market in Japan in 1986. Nonetheless, Nintendo of America found this sequel too similar to its predecessor, and its difficulty too frustrating, for the nascent American market. This prompted a second Super Mario Bros. sequel based on Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic, Nintendo's 1987 Family Computer Disk System game that had been based on a prototype platforming game and released as an advergame for Fuji Television's Yume Kōjō '87 media technology expo. The characters, enemies, and themes in Doki Doki Panic have the mascots and theme of the festival, and were adapted into the Super Mario theme to make a Western Super Mario Bros. sequel. Super Mario Bros. 2 was a resounding success, becoming the fifth-best-selling game on the NES, and was critically well-received for its design aspects and for differentiating the Super Mario series. It was re-released in Japan for the Famicom as Super Mario USA (1992), and has...
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Releases
| Platform | Region | Date | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nintendo Entertainment System | 🇺🇸 US | 1988 | Nintendo |
| Nintendo Entertainment System | 🇪🇺 EU | 1988 | Nintendo |
