Doki Doki Panic "Super Mario Bros 2" (Famicom Disk System) Part 1 - James & Mike Mondays 

"You live and you learn." (dies) "And then you forget." That's deep, James.

This may not be the original SMB2, but it's had exponentially more impact on future games. Peach floating, Luigi's jumping style, shy guys, Birdo, etc

6:18 "You live and you learn...and then you forget" That sums up retro games we all played as kids. I know exactly the paths and order to take in Megaman 2, but I still will occasionally jump to my death during the Mecha Dragon chase in Wily 1, run out of Crash Bombs in Wily 4, or not dodge the Wily Alien hologram shots. We know what to do, but we're human and make mistakes.

So in Japan... Luigi's character is Mama? Mama Luigi?!

Everything about the tone of this game seems slightly darker. Faces just dont seem as bright and the enemies feel slightly more menacing. Great choice for a game guys!

The blue, "floaty" character is actually Luigi in SMB2. There were extra controllers for the Famicom, there's an extra port on the front. And when the lamp is lit on the FDS, that only means that it's currently reading the disk. If it goes out, it only means that it's finished.

Actually, what I've heard is that Doki Doki Panic was originally supposed to be a Mario game but the license was given to a cartoon show and it became Doki Doki Panic and THEN later on they made it Mario again because the actual Mario 2 was "too hard".

It's actually slightly more complex, Doki Doki Panic was originally made as a sequel thing to SMB1 by the creator of Super Mario, Shigeru Miyamoto. He then signed a contract with Fuji to turn it into Doki Doki Panic and add characters which were mascots for Fuji's Yume Kojō '87 event. This was then released in Japan and Nintendo of America decided that SMB2J was too difficult and too similar to SMB1 so Miyamoto gave Doki Doki Panic a quick re-skin and it became SMB2 (USA).

Please, please, OH PLEASE, play _Akumajō Densetsu_ (the Japanese _Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse_) for the Famicom Disk System. It has much better music, different enemies and all religious-content and partial nudity intact. O' please James and Mike, MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!

In this video the friendship you two have really stood out, and the way you guys are entertaining each other and getting each other to laugh made me feel good

Those waterfalls kinda bug my eyes.

The character you thought was the 'princess' seemed to be the character animation that would be used for 'luigi', same jump with the top stall, except luigi kicks his legs like a derp.

I like you guys using the old systems, with the crappy graphics on old TVs, because it helps sell the original experience of playing these games back in the 80s and 90s.

What the frick? It's weird hearing James not say fuck

Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic _was_ originally intended to be Mario 2, but was changed early in development because of a deal with Fuji TV. The American Mario 2 was later rereleased in Japan as "Super Mario USA".

7:51 That's not the Princess, that's Luigi... you can tell by the floaty jump.

I love how you two banter. "Noise, is like that rap music those kids listen to" Gold

6:18 "you live and you learn... and then you forget" . That was a good one!!

The floaty character from 7:25 to 8:45 was Luigi minus the kicking feet.

I know it's probably harder to do with time constraints and what not, but filming in late noon lighting like that adds to the setting so nicley. Just like how we used to do it, we'd come home from school, kick off all of our stuff at the door and go play video games until supper

Mario has approved this game : "Oki Doki" !

"I can't even look at it! It's torture!"

In Perú we got both the Nintendo USA and some sort of a Famicom. It looked exactly like a Famicom but it was called MAXPLAY and it came with 100 games and with orange Turbo A and B buttons. I remember at the time, around 1988, both games were all over: Mario Bros 2. on both NES and Famicom cartridges but also Doki Doki Panic on a Famicom cartridge! We all not only thought that the MAXPLAY (Famicom) was a copy of the NES USA but also that all of its colorful games/cartridges were hacks, bootlegs, copies (some of them actually were since I remember seeing up to Mario 9) of NES USA including DDP a "copy" of SMB2. Who knew that it ended up being the opposite!

You live, you learn, then you forget. -James Rolfe 2015

Seizure Waterfalls.

My mind is blown. I've never even heard of Yume Koujou: Doki Doki Panic! It's been awesome seeing you guys experiment with the Famicom hardware! :)

"As much as that (Super Mario Bros 2 (Japan)) was the true Mario 2" Interestingly enough, Miyamoto actually considers Super Mario USA (what the Japanese call the Mario 2 that we got) to be the true sequel to Super Mario Bros.

Doki Doki Panic is one of the secrets behind why Mario 3 is so good. Mario 3 inherited an optimal combination of the gameplay, mechanics, and art/ character design from two different platforming franchises, both of which were excellent.

"Who was that floaty fucker?" Looked like the goth red riding hood lol

9:14 So intense :'D

Seizure warning 9:28

1:26 100% right. i just realized that. it was never questioned

So, did Mike die and come back to life, cause those bags under his eyes make him look like James' undead friend.

finaly someone talks about my favorite mario game ever ! love the end of super mario 2, the hidden magic doors, the ennemies, the 4 playables characters, the music. most mature mario episode ever !

You guys should think about doing a load time comparison between game carts, Disc's, and Rom based games. Like Earthbound Cart vs Rom, or Chrono Trigger SNES VS DS VS PSone, VS Rom.

Supposedly Doki Doki began development as a Mario title but changed to the mascots of a big international festival going on in Japan at the time called Yumekoji of something that means Dream Factory.

Wart didn't come back because he was busy having a music career on Kohilent island.

Funny to note: Doki Doki Panic originally was a Super Mario Bros. Game that was in development that would've expanded on vertical and horizontal scrolling. When they got the License for the TV festival, this build was made into DOKI DOKI and when that flopped was retooled back into a Super Mario Bros game. It's a weird teeter between "Being not a Mario game but Also not being completely unrelated to the SMB's series."

Interesting stuff, I never knew SMB 2 was based on this. I always found it harder than 1 and 3, and it explains why it's so different from the other games.

I know I'm way late to the party, here, but I thought I'd do the Mike Matei thing, and mention Zelda. Lol. LoZ: Link's Awakening. Wart makes a cameo as "Mamu", who teaches link one of the 3 tunes on the ocarina.

wrong mike, the famicom has a port on the front, and theres a bunch of special turbo controllers for famicom...

HahahahHAHAHAHAHAAHAH i was cracking up at 11:48 james is sarcasm and mike being so serious he has no idea lololol that was a good laugh lol

What the hell were they thinking with that waterfall originally. Holy shit

The blue character that you guys originally thought was the Princess is actually this game's Luigi. That floatiness on the jump definitely feels disconnected when you aren't watching Luigi's legs flutter.

That was a great james and mike monday looked forward to watching this had it on my mind all day at work haha :D

The irony is that enemies from the game appeared in later Mario games, but the BEST enemies from this game - Mouser, Tryclyde, Clawgrip and Wart - have yet to appear in other Mario games.

9:07 Don't mind me, this is my favourite moment button.

Very interesting! Thanks for doing this guys. I've always been curious about not only the Famicom disc system, but Doki-Doki Panic as well. I think it's really intriguing that the characters from that game were re-branded as legit Mario characters later on.

Shyguys, Birdo, Ninjas, sparkeys and the Pokey cactus all came back. Did that bomb mouse (mouser) come back in any other games, I feel like he did

I'm so glad history worked out the way it did, because it produced my favorite Super Mario game and NES game of all time!

I'm thinking the belts gone on your fds, theres a rubber belt in these which will perish much like a vcr's one does with age, replace the belt, problem solved. It's probably a good idea to clean the contacts while its apart too.

Just a quick note for Mike. There is an expansion port on the side of the Famicom for hooking up other controllers.So joysticks, light guns and other peripherals hook in there. On the later AV famicom it takes NES style controllers too.

I guess Mike doesn't like that Rap music that the kids listen too.

Doki Doki Panic feels like an unfinished prototype of the U.S. SMB2, not being able to run with the B button really kills it for me. Having to beat all of the game's levels with each character is also incredibly stupid. Also, OW FUCK THAT TWO FRAME WATERFALL ANIMATION IS BURNING MY EYES.

Famicom DOES have a controller port. Hudson made some extra controllers.

I used to use Super Mario Bros 2/Doki Doki Panic sound effects for phone notifications. I always wanted it so that whenever I got a text from someone I wanted to hear from, it would make the sound effect you'd hear when you won extra lives on the slot machine, and if it was a text from someone you didn't want to hear from, you'd get the sound effect when you failed at the slots.

Anybody who claims they knew Mario 2 wasn't the real mario 2 and was actually doki doki panic is a lying hipster. Unless you lived in Japan, or had family in Japan, you had no idea, and you didn't question it, and you probably enjoyed it.

If you guys didn't know according to Gaming Historian. He mentioned the idea of Doki Doki Panic or Heart Pounding Panic was from Fuji TV wanting to do a celebration thing and they worked with Nintendo in collaboration. That's the reason for the mask and such it was ceremony and festival related to their show in japan for celebration.

Late to the party here, but a trivia note: Based from the video, we can see James and Mike are playing a save file where someone previously beat the game with all characters. In Doki Doki Panic, you actually *don't* get to see the ending of the game unless you beat it with *each* of the four characters, all the way through. This is a game without mercy. James & Mike saw the ending in their single playthrough since the savefile was already 100%. So, this is another way that SMB2 is easier than Doki Doki Panic; in SMB2, you only have to beat the game with one character.

The Famicom disk drive was such an awesome idea. I always wished it would have come out here. I had a friend that lived in Japan for a couple years and he had one. Everyone in the neighborhood was jealous.

Thank you for consistently brightening up my Monday's, you magnificent stallions.

That one character you used was actually Luigi. That's why he was hard to control. I remember playing this some years back on an emulator. It's the exact same game as mario 2. It was definitely interesting playing the original. :)

Mondays used to be bad.. Until I discovered this :D

lmao when mike said that rap music i was waitin for him to plant his cane wave his fist and end it with "u ruffians! stay off my porch!" 😅

The funny thing about Birdo in the US version of SMB2 is that in the instruction manual it says “He thinks he is a girl and spits eggs from his mouth. He’d rather be called Birdetta.” Soo...... this whole time Birdo’s been a cross dresser????? Ir did he/she have a sex change? What the hell is going on here? Is there some long lost famicom game called “Birdo’s gender reassignment surgery” or something? I need answers!

11:30 "We're explorers." It made me think of this line: Explorers... in the further regions of experience.

I love how there's never any warning on in the front about the language, AVGN video or not. I'm not being sarcastic. Because when you watch a Cinemassacre video, you know what you're getting into! XD

9:18 Yep, guys. It shows. Goddamn, that waterfall is one crazy bastard.

Where's the epilepsy warning!! Christ Almighty them waterfalls hurt they eyes!

Holy shit not gunna lie and you guys can repeat it in fullscreen. The part where the screen is all blue and distorted stare the whole time from where it starts(in full screen up close) then look at the wall and that is just a TASTE of a killer mushroom trip. i mean in terms of getting intense i saw the wall and door appear to stretch right up to me and everything breathing when i was peaking. Ntm i chiefed hard before watching this, i'm telling you im dying of laughter but amazing video as always, i was actually quite excited to see these guys play it and ofc reading the comments about the infamous confused Birdo. LMAO

your my favorite channel

Funny thing is that Doki Doki Panic actually started as an "idea" for a Mario game. Basically, Nintendo experimented with scrolling vertically rather than horizontally that the original game had. After a while (and some advice on adding in horizontal scrolling from Miyamoto), a deal was struck with Fuji Telivision to make a game using their characters. Thus, Doki Doki Panic was born.

Mike is literally me when I’d watch my sister play games. He’s a gift.

my jaw dropped in horror right when you got to the waterfall dear god my eyes XO

the name "Doki Doki panic" sounds like something that happens when you have diarrhea and can't find a toilet close by

I'm six months into recovering from a concussion. Those waterfalls just set me back another six months.

Doki Doki Panic Literature Club

It's kind of strange though how the game had a star power up that made you temporarily invincible BEFORE they added the Mario elements and made it into a Mario game. Anyone else noticed that? Weird that James and Mike didn't bring it up.

Holy shit guys don't watch 9:24 when you're high.

There should been a video with that fast scrolling waterfall where you can get hypnotized by starring at it up close.

Turn to side- B and insert to fucking box!

Around the time Super Mario Bros 2(US) came out, I was in middle school. I distinctly recall when some friends and I were started talking about games we were looking forward to while we were hanging out. It was the usual lunch time conversation and the topic of Mario 2 came up and how we had hoped to find a copy of it to rent at the video store over the weekend. Another kid, overhearing our conversation, started to tell us that Mario 2 wasn't the, 'real' Mario 2 and that our Mario 2 was a dumbed down version of, "Doki Doki Panic Panic!"(he go the title wrong, but I didn't know any better at the time) in Japan because the 'real' Mario 2 that came out in Japan was considered too hard for us Americans. And then he proceeded to go on and on about that's the reason why he only plays PC games because, "they don't dumb things down for you to play video games on your TV" I don't recall my response or how the rest of that conversation went, but I always felt that was the weirdest reasoning for preferring PC games. I never felt that video games were dumbed down to play on consoles, they were just different kinds of games made on consoles as opposed to PC. Anyways, it's cool to finally see this game in action and see the differences. I really enjoyed it.

Mikes looking awfully like George Michael circa 1985 these days

Jesus, you could hypnotize people with that waterfall animation.

Our childhoods was a lie lol

"You live and you learn...and then you forget" too true

"What the frick" - James Rolfe, 2015

That's why I like games like Super Mario RPG, Mario Luigi Superstar Saga, etc...they have different antagonists and it is a bit of fresh air.

*waterfall intensifies*

Man, I LOVE Mike's pompadour. Stylish

Just Monika

I kind of like the grainy vintage look that coaxial produces

whats with the blue pregnant princess

It was so weird hearing James say "Frick!" as I'm so used to hearing him cussing up a storm! ;)

is this that "doki doki literature club" kids are talking about these days

Cool video guys, I prefer it when its just you two. After watching the waterfall, its left a fuzzy image when I close my eyes :o

My kid had a seizure watching this video and there was no warning disclaimer. I'm suing! Just kidding.

If you're wondering about additional controllers, some accessories like the Zapper, (which looks like a fucking revolver handgun) can connect through a controller port on the front. It's covered by a red plastic cap.

Just Monika...o wait, wrong doki doki

Never knew I suffered with epilepsy until this video.... Thanks guys!! haha!