I'm glad there's somebody else besides me who likes Mario 2 more than 1 or 3. Don't get me wrong, SMB1 was great and an influental game. It just wasn't the game that made me want a NES (that was original Zelda). And Mario 3 is also great, but I just preferred the gameplay, controls, and level design of Mario 2. And looking at the history of Mario 2, turns out the original game was made by Miyamoto and features a lot of ideas he wanted to put in the next Mario game, and it was just happenstance that they changed it to be about a festival going on that time in Japan.
But I just can't get on the Zelda 2 bandwagon. Don't like it that much. Give me the original any day.
I kind of hem and haw about my favorite 2-D Mario game. Some days it's Super Mario World, some days it's Yoshi's Island.


