Why I buy this one ?
- Play Super Mario Bros. 2, the hit NES game from wayback!
- Play as Mario, Luigi, Toad, or the Princess, and play through 20 levels of adventure as you try to stop the Dream Machine
- You can also play Mario Bros., the classic arcade hit
- Link up with friends and play using the GameLink cable, for added fun&adventure

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What our customer's say!

"Super Mario Advance", Pretty good game, not as good as some of the Mario games. Nice game for kids between 4 and 7. I enjoyed this game 15 years ago and had to buy it for my Nintendo DS.

"excellant", My nine year old son used his money to purchase this game and had loads of fun.

"Too Much From Origonal?? (Rating: 5 out of 10- -2.5 stars)", Now I myself personally love me some Super Mario. If you checked my reviews, you'll see that I've given Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3 & Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance all high ratings. When I purchased those two games, I've noticed that Nintendo made some changes with those games since the last time I've owned them on Super Nintendo. So here I am with Super Mario Advance, which is Super Mario 2 on Game Boy Advance, and I have to say that I've not impressed at all with this one. I understand that video games "evolve" over time and creaters try to make them better, but there is a difference between making the game better than the origonal, and making it complicated than the origonal. Nintendo did the latter with this game.

Changes for the good are nice for me. On this one you can pick you character each time you die (actually you could do that since the Super Mario All-Stars game, and I didn't know you couldn't do that on the origonal NES game until I was playing my cousin's Wii a few days ago). Also it tells you each characters power under them on the select screen. Another helpful change is when you collect the star which makes you become invincible for a few seconds. Back then when you collect a certain amount of cherries, a star would just randomly float from the bottom of the screen. On here you'll hear some kind of tone which warns you the star is comming.

Not so good changes are very visible. First of all, what got me was during the beginning of the game, there is a long drop before you reach the bottom and start. They changed that too, which sucks. Also on the origonal game you started off big (the status you are when you have at least two hearts on the left side of the screen). Here you're small (with one heart on the left side), which really isn't a problem because you can find hearts anywhere to make you grow. Back then if you kill enough enemies, a heart will float from the ground and you gain more life. Here, hearts are inside the plants you pick up from the ground and sitting idle in high places on levels. And what really ticks me off is the red shell that you can pick up from the ground. Back then you threw the red shell at an enemie and it would have hit the wall and dissapeared. Here if you throw a shell, it will bounce off the wall and keep going, and if it hits you, you loose a heart or die (come on now!). And whats the deal with those huge Shy Guys and Turnip Plants? And like every Mario game, the characters speak (Peach doesn't know when to shut up). Hell even Birdo speaks (that purple dinosaur that shoot out eggs), and half the time I don't even knows what she is saying.

There you have it with Super Mario 2 on Game Boy Advance. What I believed happened was that Nintendo received feedback since 1993 when this game was reissued on SNES on how difficult the game was and tried their best to make it easier and more fun for new and younger Nintendo gamers, because I played the origonal on the Wii and it was the exact version on the NES and it was way harder. Older guys like me will definately find this game flawed if you've had it in different formats. Nintendo has made some great reissues with great modifications, but they shot a brick with this one big time. Peace.

P.S.- The Arcade game appears on all Super Mario Advance games.

"For nostalgia's sake alone", Mario's first appearance on the GBA came with the first Super Mario Advance game, which is an updated port of Super Mario Bros. 2 for the original Nintendo console. For those that don't know, Super Mario Bros. 2 was a departure from the classic, standard setting original game, as Mario now pulled radishes out of the ground to hurl at enemies among other changes (the reason behind these is because the original Super Mario Bros. 2 was deemed too difficult when originally developed, so another in-development game got a Mario facelift and was released as Super Mario 2 here in the states, while the other Mario sequel would see somewhat of a release as Super Mario All-Stars on the Lost Levels segment), but despite it all, the game still offered some solid platforming action and fun. Choosing to play as Mario, Luigi, Toad, or Princess Peach; you hurl radishes and other items at enemies, look for secrets, and more besides. The game is pretty simple to get into, and the graphics and sound have been updated for the GBA, but there are some flaws. The controls aren't as tight as we've seen on Mario games before and after this, and there are moments where the game really doesn't feel like a Mario game (and it's really not, for reasons mentioned above), but despite it's flaws, the first Super Mario Advance is a fun diversion, even though it is the weakest of the four Super Mario Advance games that came out for the GBA over it's lifespan. All in all, if you're still looking to get some quality, triple-A titles for your GBA before it completely bites the dust, here's one to pick up if you haven't already.

"A little disappointing...", I bought this game without knowing that it was the same as Super Mario 2. This was my least favorite Mario game for the NES. I also think it was kind of pointless to include the original Mario Brothers game. (You remember the one with the POW barrel) That game is not fun, and requires a connector cable and an opponent for any kind of real game play. I recommend Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3 for some classic Mario fun.

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"super mario advanced", I dont know I never recieved the game after ordering it twice.... the shipping kept gettin put off 2 week I finally got sick of it and canceled the order...they lasts over about 2 or 3 months .....

"Not the best Mario game for GBA...", This game is sortta boring. There are not many glitches in this game, but most of the glitches from the SMB2 NES version have somewhat got copied into this game. The bosses and baddies are VERY LAME and VERY STUPID!!! Don't care about them, and just beat the crap out of them so you can get it over with! The characters also make stupid coments. This game is VERY wierd.

"Significantly worse on the GBA", This game is a big disappointment from Nintendo. First off, the original game wasn't all that great to begin with due to its tiny worlds, nonexistant powerups, and simple boss characters. However, what makes this game a real loser is that it's worse than the the SNES remake on the Super Mario All-Stars game and even the original NES game!

The game does have some advantages over previous versions:
1) The graphics are taken from Super Mario All-Stars and therefore are an improvement over the original.
2) The mindnumbingly boring slot machine scene after each tiny world have been made more tolerable since you can now bet a group of coins instead of making individual bets for each and every coin you have.
3) Like All-Stars, you can pick a different character after each tiny level instead of waiting until an entire world was cleared.


What makes this game worse than All-Stars?
1) The horrible scrolling engine! SMB2 had a unique scrolling style on vertical levels which remains, but the horizontal levels are torture too. You can literally tap your character one direction or the other and the entire screen will scroll so that your character is near either the left or right edge. The scrolling engine alone makes this game unplayable. What is it with Nintendo and its policy of using lousy camera work for its Mario games? I thought that was just for their 3D Mario games.

2) The annoying vocal work from the 3D games has been added here to make the experience as unpleasant as possible. Do we really need to hear "Lucky" after collecting a cherry? Battle scenes with Birdo have some sort of annoying speech that I haven't made out quite yet, and it freezes the action while the dialog is being spoken.

3) Weird tacked-on stuff: the game has a lot of little new things that just feel totally out of place. Anyone familiar with the real version of the game is familiar with the inital drop that happens when you start world 1-1. The new version is totally different and this new little vertical area is littered with everything that will annoy you about this game.


My recommendation? DO NOT BUY.

Nintendo needs to know that terrible ports like this are totally unacceptable! I recommend waiting for the Nintendo Revolution (aka the poorly named "Wii") and obtain the NES original or the superior SNES Super Mario All-Stars version on the virtual console instead.

"WOW!", i was blown away at SMB2 on the NES, and on SMB ALL STARS ON THE SNES, but on the gameboy, I still love it! the only thing i have a problem with are the voices, and the amount of space you have on the screen, it's so small, but overall, THIS GAME IS A MUST BUY FOR ALL! i love it!

"I always loved the gameplay in smb2 and now it's back.", One of my favorite games was SMB2 and now it's back with better graphics and new feaatures. The mario bros. game is great fun too! I recommend this to people who liked the original.