As a kid I remember finishing this game on the demo unit at costco... After it was over I turned around and there was like 10 other kids standing around in amazement. I'm still chasing that feeling.
I did the same with Super Mario World at KMart. One time I was using L+R to replay a beaten castle and some snotty kid goes "it's already beaten, you can't replay it" **BOOM** you were saying?
I don't understand it. It's nothing like the others but this was the second game? Confused but interested. What made the randomly go to this style then back to what the 1st game was like? Just trying something different?
@@jonathanvandagriff7515 The original Super Mario Bros. 2 that was released in Japan is known as The Lost Levels in America and wasn't released until 1993 as part of Super Mario All Stars (a great game in and of itself). When Nintendo of America got a hold of the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 2 they found the game to be too hard. According to Takashi Tezuka and Shigeru Miyamoto, this was actually the goal of the game, however NoA cancled the stateside release as a result. Since The Lost Levels wasn't to be released in America and Super Mario Brothers 3 was about to be released in Japan, Nintendo of America singled out a different game to take the place of Super Mario Brothers 2. That game was Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic. Since it featured 4 different protagonists with varying stats, Toadstool and Toad were added to Mario and Luigi. Its also worth noting that this is the first game to feature Luigi as being taller than Mario because the character he was based on (Mama) was noticable taller than the character Mario was based on (Brother). The result is what is commonly known as Super Mario Brothers 2.
I once watched a 'speedrun' of smb3 where he did all the levels as fast as possible, probably glitchless, no whistles certainly. was very nostalgic. nowhere near as invested in SMB2.
Nice new Channel Ryu. I'm not into Mario Maker too much, but I do watch that channel to because Mario Maker 2 does bring back the old Mario games. SMB2 was my first video game, back in 1989. My cousin taught me most of the secret door shortcuts and I figured out the high jump level 2 shortcut to the Birdo. Nostalgia is great. Thanks for putting all of our combined tricks from back in the day into a speedrun because back then my cousin and I didn't know what speed running was. It's crazy! I'm going to see if you have anymore speedruns of older games.
Great video. I never saw anyone speed run Super Mario Brothers 2. It's one of my favorite NES games because it's so offbeat and crazy. I had the game new in box around Christmas of 1988. Always loved it. These days, I play retro games on my Retropie because it's saves lots of space.
After watching Arcus speed run this game so much, whenever I see anyone collect the crystal at the end of each stage, I hear in my mind "that was a really good blark"
This game doesn't need a speed run. When I play this I play every single level..thats how great this mario game is. I know it's based on another game but in America this game was pure gold.
Damn. This music slaps me in a time capsule, digs a hole and buries me 6 feet under, digs me up in 30 years, and when I emerge, all the bald headed androgynous future civilians stare in astonishment as the first sounds from my mouth are...dun dun da ding, dun da dun da dun da dun da dun da di-a-li-a-li-a-li-a-li-.
I believe that the "Lost Levels" from Mario Allstars were originally supposed to be Mario 2 but developers found that they were too hard so they just re-skinned another game.
There are tons of videos on TH-cam discussing the history of Super Mario Bros. 2 and how it came to be. Check them out. It's a cool story. I was about 9 when it came out in the U.S. and nobody had a clue about its former identity. Nor did we care. Mario 2 was always a Mario game even if it wasn't always a Mario game.
Its a really good thing when they kludged the mario bros sprites into the game they didn't redo the Doki Doki Panic soundtrack. Would have been a travesty.
1st off well done Sir. I want you to know that o just found this channel a few days ago bit keep coming back great content. I love old school NES games.
Very skillful and speedy playing! This video takes me back to when I would play hours of this great NES game! So many fun memories! Thanks for the walkthrough demonstration!
Despite knowing the outcome from the video title... I still held my breath every time Ryu would raise a Death Flag saying things like "Let's not blow it!" 😅
I and family beat it, but I couldn't do it. Those jumps are insane. Especially Luigi who seems to have this flying jump. Same with Peach. The ice level perplexed me as a kid, but I understand why ...it was slippery. However, you can use it to your advantage as speed gains momentum.
Let’s go Ryu! Also would love to see Addams Family on NES played under your extraordinarily hard games! The hit boxes are jank and the objectives vague. Enjoy!
One criticism I do have with Mario 2. Whoever's absolutely idiotic idea it was to keep the character's head the same size when they are big as when they are small should be publicallu flogged. Makes Luigi look like even more of a doofus
They didn't care because this was originally a non-Mario game rebranded as a Mario game for American audiences. The game makes way more sense if you play the original on the Japanese Famicom.
What a fricken legend lol. Speed running the crap out of it while talking and and reading comments in between loading screens. I absolutely suck at playing SMB2 even at full concentration.
gg, baller, & congratulations! almost 15 seconds under 10 minutes - you kinda undersold it in the title. my favorite section was world 6, with those smooth af jumps in 6-2 and the time you recovered in 6-3 with a sick double hit on birdo. you gonna stream another marihour attempt again soon?
HOLY Fucking SHIT! This is the exact path my cousin took the very 1st time I was shown this game as a child in the 90s! I could never remember the exact path when I tried it myself and it blew my damn mind how he did this back then. (He was on the side of the family that were known for being bad ass Cholos, SHOUT to the Flores', so I only got to see this cousin maybe 3 times in my childhood) Speed running wasn't even a thing and I still have no clue TO THIS DAY, where he learned it. You earned a SUB from me! Thank you RYU! PS Ryu was my favorite character in Street Fighter 2 except I had to use Chun Li to beat M Bison on Console.
Really not that hard? Rented it from the video store and beat it the same weekend. Every "scene" has a wrong and right thing to do. Figure out the "right things" and you can breeze through the game.
Have you ever heard of Quest? It’s a great game kinda like the old Zelda games I have the Gameboy Version it’s pretty fun. You should play if if you haven’t. Would totally recommend it.
When I was a kid, I would beat SMB2 (sometimes SMB3, or Ducktales) every morning before heading to school. At the time, I didn’t know I was speedrunning games because it wasn’t really a thing just yet. 😂 This was the exact route and method I would take, the only difference is that I never really changed characters, I primarily used Luigi the entire time.
Nice play ryu! also i think that was fastest i have ever seen the game beat... weirdly you can never get enough of the second installment of super mario bros... It must just keep pace lol.... 😊 nice play ryu sir
Damn impressive speedrun! Pretty much flawless! And I loved this game as a kid. Beated it the hard way if I remember....by passing all the worlds. I enjoyed all of them too. So much variety. A really great game....even though it deviates from regular SMB games when it comes to design. I really thought this design was pretty awesome. I learned later it was because this was supposed to be another game. But Nintendo overtook it and changed some things and made it a SMB2 out of it.
And this game set quite a few new precedents for new Mario games: - Mario and Luigi's different heights - Different abilities for different characters - A playable Princess! - Shy Guys, Birdo, and most of the other enemies in this game appear regularly in other Mario games.
Ryu is one syllable. It sounds like the word "you" with a Japanese R at the beginning. The Japanese R is the glottal stop in the middle of the word "better". It's very difficult for a non-Japanese speaker to pronounce, because English cannot put that sound at the beginning of a word.
Congrats! I didn't know there was a trick to speed up the magic carpet in 1-2. I assume holding something makes you run faster? There are so many cool things I discovered about this game in this run alone and I've been playing the game for over thirty years! 😅
Here I am watching your "I've NEVER Done This Game Before - The Legend of Zelda (NES)" thinking you're just goofing around and getting super lucky...turns out you're a damned beast.
10 minutes, and then theres me who hasnt eveb beaten it once. Fantatsic work Ryu. One ask, can you make a video going over the tactics used to used? If you have already, I appoligize.
8:39 I shit you not the first time I came to this part as a kid, that head chasing me gave me nightmares and didn't pick it back up until weeks later to beat the game lol. After 7 worlds trusting that eagle head door thing then it starts chasing you, still kinda creeps me out a bit lol. Am I the only one who got the shit scared out of them as a little kid? Lol.
Nice job man, I'm fuckin proud ah ya! As far as the way to say Ryu, I say do it whatever way you want. I like the way it is pronounced in Shenmue almost like a d-yo type sound like. Also the boss music still kinda freaks me out to this day since a kid lol.
Wow I thought I was good. I played the heck out of this as a kid. I tried so hard to do the bird level with out riding a bird. Good job. And those glitches , didn’t know about those. And the potion wall bounce jump thing… wow. Very nice. Now castlevania sub 14? :).
I never heard a Japanese word or name spoken in my childhood so why thought it was Rye You. Shout out to my favorite Emcee of the 90's-2000's who goes by the same name, Ryan Patrick Maginn (Ryu) of STYLES OF BEYOND! I first heard Ryu Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 with the song Subculture of the then unreleased album Terraform.
Holy Shit! Those were some awesome moves and you utilized a bunch of glitches I'd never seen before! As if that wasn't enough, I even learned the correct way to pronounce RYU after all these years. I am officially subscribed. :)
As a kid I remember finishing this game on the demo unit at costco... After it was over I turned around and there was like 10 other kids standing around in amazement. I'm still chasing that feeling.
🤣😂... Keep chasing brother...
That’s a dragon that has faded away..nothing like the good ole days bro.
I did the same with Super Mario World at KMart. One time I was using L+R to replay a beaten castle and some snotty kid goes "it's already beaten, you can't replay it" **BOOM** you were saying?
One of my very favorite Mario games. I can’t explain why I love Mario 2 so much. But it such an awesome game.
I don't understand it. It's nothing like the others but this was the second game? Confused but interested. What made the randomly go to this style then back to what the 1st game was like? Just trying something different?
@@jonathanvandagriff7515 The original Super Mario Bros. 2 that was released in Japan is known as The Lost Levels in America and wasn't released until 1993 as part of Super Mario All Stars (a great game in and of itself). When Nintendo of America got a hold of the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 2 they found the game to be too hard. According to Takashi Tezuka and Shigeru Miyamoto, this was actually the goal of the game, however NoA cancled the stateside release as a result.
Since The Lost Levels wasn't to be released in America and Super Mario Brothers 3 was about to be released in Japan, Nintendo of America singled out a different game to take the place of Super Mario Brothers 2. That game was Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic. Since it featured 4 different protagonists with varying stats, Toadstool and Toad were added to Mario and Luigi. Its also worth noting that this is the first game to feature Luigi as being taller than Mario because the character he was based on (Mama) was noticable taller than the character Mario was based on (Brother). The result is what is commonly known as Super Mario Brothers 2.
@John because it was just a dream?
The music and dreamy eerie vibe
@@willn8664 because it's literally a whole diff game series, with a Mario reskin
I don't know why you'd speedrun this game. The longer the run, the longer you get to hear the epic soundtrack! :D
I once watched a 'speedrun' of smb3 where he did all the levels as fast as possible, probably glitchless, no whistles certainly. was very nostalgic.
nowhere near as invested in SMB2.
Yea, good point.
There's at least one person out there who will try to speed run any game you can think of. It doesn't need to make sense.
I love this comment hahahaha
I love to play as Princess Peach 👸🏼
Ryu all the time, " I love SMB2". Also Ryu, "I'm going to stop playing this game in less than 10 minutes"
Well done, sir. Making a nightmare frog eat his vegetables within 10 minutes. Good practice for when you guys have a little one haha
Ryu is a beast!! 😎👍💪🎮🏆
@@stacychamness9077 p}}}}l}} lol po Po Po ⁹⁹⁹ or poo ⁰⁰∅⁸
Wart wouldn't listen to his mother when she told him to eat his vegetables.
So somebody had to shove them down his throat.lol😁😁😁
*Listen boy, this is what i'll do to you if you don't eat your veggies*
That is…worryingly accurate 😂
Nice new Channel Ryu. I'm not into Mario Maker too much, but I do watch that channel to because Mario Maker 2 does bring back the old Mario games. SMB2 was my first video game, back in 1989. My cousin taught me most of the secret door shortcuts and I figured out the high jump level 2 shortcut to the Birdo. Nostalgia is great. Thanks for putting all of our combined tricks from back in the day into a speedrun because back then my cousin and I didn't know what speed running was. It's crazy! I'm going to see if you have anymore speedruns of older games.
Great video. I never saw anyone speed run Super Mario Brothers 2. It's one of my favorite NES games because it's so offbeat and crazy.
I had the game new in box around Christmas of 1988. Always loved it.
These days, I play retro games on my Retropie because it's saves lots of space.
Most impressive, man. This game was so difficult for me as a kid. Love seeing it get destroyed at turbo speed. 🥰
Corporal Klinger is a ryu fan?
I beat this game as a kid just out of sheer tenacity because I loved playing it so much. I loved the quirky art and style.
7:35 When your run is so fast that the game can't even believe you beat Birdo.
After watching Arcus speed run this game so much, whenever I see anyone collect the crystal at the end of each stage, I hear in my mind "that was a really good blark"
This game doesn't need a speed run. When I play this I play every single level..thats how great this mario game is. I know it's based on another game but in America this game was pure gold.
SMB2 is a creative masterpiece. I think this installment did more for creative gaming than we give it credit
Damn. This music slaps me in a time capsule, digs a hole and buries me 6 feet under, digs me up in 30 years, and when I emerge, all the bald headed androgynous future civilians stare in astonishment as the first sounds from my mouth are...dun dun da ding, dun da dun da dun da dun da dun da di-a-li-a-li-a-li-a-li-.
Great work Ryu. Still crazy to think coolkids world record stands at 8:11 🤯
8 mins 11 seconds? That's insane!! Ryu's speedrun is still very impressive!! 💯👍
This is the first time ever I saw SMB 2. Devs were on some serious pills.
If you think SMB2 is whack, you should check out Doki Doki Panic.
That's because they reskinned Doki Doki Panic with Mario characters.
I believe that the "Lost Levels" from Mario Allstars were originally supposed to be Mario 2 but developers found that they were too hard so they just re-skinned another game.
There are tons of videos on TH-cam discussing the history of Super Mario Bros. 2 and how it came to be. Check them out. It's a cool story.
I was about 9 when it came out in the U.S. and nobody had a clue about its former identity. Nor did we care.
Mario 2 was always a Mario game even if it wasn't always a Mario game.
@@jerbear1978 they deemed it "Too hard for western audiences." We've since proved to be gamer enough to handle it though.
I think, generally speaking smb2 music is underrated...so catchy and stays fresh
Its a really good thing when they kludged the mario bros sprites into the game they didn't redo the Doki Doki Panic soundtrack. Would have been a travesty.
1st off well done Sir. I want you to know that o just found this channel a few days ago bit keep coming back great content. I love old school NES games.
you can enter the 1-1 cave area way faster if you use the double jump glitch instead of power jumping to the door
Holy crap! I played this as a kid on game boy advance and it used to be so hard, so much fun seeing you speedrun this!
Very skillful and speedy playing! This video takes me back to when I would play hours of this great NES game! So many fun memories! Thanks for the walkthrough demonstration!
Awesome run.
It always amazes me how non Mario this game is the deeper you go.
Well, you know the story, right? The Doki Doki Panic story?
@@lostfan5054 Yeah, how 2 was basically a reskin of DDP. It is still just funny how it shifts
@@MilesG170 I agree. It's a great game tho!
@@lostfan5054 💯 agree
Very nice of you, you just beat my childhood in 10 min lol 😂
Freaking insane, love seeing these speedruns
This is a game in its own.
Despite knowing the outcome from the video title... I still held my breath every time Ryu would raise a Death Flag saying things like "Let's not blow it!" 😅
Oh lord, and i was never able to finish this game, so humiliating hahahahah
I didn't beat it till like 2 years ago
I and family beat it, but I couldn't do it. Those jumps are insane. Especially Luigi who seems to have this flying jump. Same with Peach.
The ice level perplexed me as a kid, but I understand why ...it was slippery. However, you can use it to your advantage as speed gains momentum.
Now save Marin from being trapped as a seagull forever in under 2 years.
Did Ryu ever beat the Marihour challenge? Woo that is ground down to almost flawless
Let’s go Ryu! Also would love to see Addams Family on NES played under your extraordinarily hard games! The hit boxes are jank and the objectives vague. Enjoy!
he played Fester's Quest though
@@Supercecco85 different beasts altogether
Congrats, ggs!
One criticism I do have with Mario 2. Whoever's absolutely idiotic idea it was to keep the character's head the same size when they are big as when they are small should be publicallu flogged. Makes Luigi look like even more of a doofus
I played this in the 90's on SNES when I was a kid and I'm quite sure the characters looked less stupid. SMB2 was included in Super Mario All-Stars.
it was done on purpose to prevent being small from being too much of an advantage with getting in one-block-high spaces
They didn't care because this was originally a non-Mario game rebranded as a Mario game for American audiences. The game makes way more sense if you play the original on the Japanese Famicom.
What a fricken legend lol. Speed running the crap out of it while talking and and reading comments in between loading screens. I absolutely suck at playing SMB2 even at full concentration.
"Raiyu" hahahaha that brought me back to being 10 years old, good stuff.
I just started running any% of SMB2 myself! Well done!
gg, baller, & congratulations! almost 15 seconds under 10 minutes - you kinda undersold it in the title. my favorite section was world 6, with those smooth af jumps in 6-2 and the time you recovered in 6-3 with a sick double hit on birdo. you gonna stream another marihour attempt again soon?
Those circle guys that chase you on the desert levels scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.
What photo frame is that in the background that's changing pictures?
I did this back in 2011 in 9:07.
I’ll upload it.
Impressive man. Great job!
only started watching your stuff. You have an uncanny resemblance in both looks and voice, to another youtube gamer, Force Gaming!
It’s amazing what the human brain can figure out.
HOLY Fucking SHIT! This is the exact path my cousin took the very 1st time I was shown this game as a child in the 90s! I could never remember the exact path when I tried it myself and it blew my damn mind how he did this back then. (He was on the side of the family that were known for being bad ass Cholos, SHOUT to the Flores', so I only got to see this cousin maybe 3 times in my childhood) Speed running wasn't even a thing and I still have no clue TO THIS DAY, where he learned it. You earned a SUB from me! Thank you RYU! PS Ryu was my favorite character in Street Fighter 2 except I had to use Chun Li to beat M Bison on Console.
Amazing. Played this game a lot back in the day. Great run.
GG, would love to see you try out of this world on SNES for extraordinary hard games
Really not that hard? Rented it from the video store and beat it the same weekend. Every "scene" has a wrong and right thing to do. Figure out the "right things" and you can breeze through the game.
6-2 was amazing. I didn't realize you could do that with Luigi.
Have you ever heard of Quest? It’s a great game kinda like the old Zelda games I have the Gameboy Version it’s pretty fun. You should play if if you haven’t. Would totally recommend it.
There's something fascinating about watching Ryu maul this game in less time than it takes me to eat dinner.
There are four legendary Ryus.
Ryu from Street Fighter
Ryu Suzaku (Captain Falcon from anime)
Ryu from Ninja Gaiden
and Ryukahr
I wonder if taking the egg back after the last hit on birdo, is part of the strat or just a flex on Ryu's part.
When I was a kid, I would beat SMB2 (sometimes SMB3, or Ducktales) every morning before heading to school. At the time, I didn’t know I was speedrunning games because it wasn’t really a thing just yet. 😂
This was the exact route and method I would take, the only difference is that I never really changed characters, I primarily used Luigi the entire time.
Impressive. GG!
Wow, You got some skills.
I like the "emotional support" shy guys to make you go faster :P
Nice play ryu! also i think that was fastest i have ever seen the game beat... weirdly you can never get enough of the second installment of super mario bros... It must just keep pace lol.... 😊
nice play ryu sir
Does toad run faster while carrying something, I've never noticed that before?
Yes
Damn impressive speedrun! Pretty much flawless!
And I loved this game as a kid. Beated it the hard way if I remember....by passing all the worlds. I enjoyed all of them too. So much variety. A really great game....even though it deviates from regular SMB games when it comes to design. I really thought this design was pretty awesome. I learned later it was because this was supposed to be another game. But Nintendo overtook it and changed some things and made it a SMB2 out of it.
And this game set quite a few new precedents for new Mario games:
- Mario and Luigi's different heights
- Different abilities for different characters
- A playable Princess!
- Shy Guys, Birdo, and most of the other enemies in this game appear regularly in other Mario games.
GG Ryu!
I have no idea how I knew most of these shortcuts as a kid. How tf did you find this out before the internet?
Nintendo Power
Ryu is one syllable. It sounds like the word "you" with a Japanese R at the beginning. The Japanese R is the glottal stop in the middle of the word "better". It's very difficult for a non-Japanese speaker to pronounce, because English cannot put that sound at the beginning of a word.
Congrats! I didn't know there was a trick to speed up the magic carpet in 1-2. I assume holding something makes you run faster? There are so many cool things I discovered about this game in this run alone and I've been playing the game for over thirty years! 😅
You are correct. As Toad, if you hold something you run 20% faster. And in world 1-2, yes that is a glitch to make you go faster again at 20%.
@@dannyocean7090 Very nice! Thanks for confirming!
How awesome is the balance of this game!? In a speed run you use all four characters at least once!
I'm glad to see that Ryu learned that 7-2 shortcut from me!
That was half my childhood in under 10 minutes. Never knew you could run faster when holding stuff how does that work?
Here I am watching your "I've NEVER Done This Game Before - The Legend of Zelda (NES)" thinking you're just goofing around and getting super lucky...turns out you're a damned beast.
How come you throw the potion next to the warp vase instead of right on top?
Ryu. You should check out Coolkid’s SMB2 speed runs. There are some cool glitches to exploit
10 minutes, and then theres me who hasnt eveb beaten it once. Fantatsic work Ryu. One ask, can you make a video going over the tactics used to used? If you have already, I appoligize.
Hey man. Love the videos. Quick question: where did you get all your game carts that let you load roms with the SD card?
This is pretty nice dude! Impressive.
GAME OF THE YEAR BABYY
8:39 I shit you not the first time I came to this part as a kid, that head chasing me gave me nightmares and didn't pick it back up until weeks later to beat the game lol. After 7 worlds trusting that eagle head door thing then it starts chasing you, still kinda creeps me out a bit lol. Am I the only one who got the shit scared out of them as a little kid? Lol.
Where you required to use the Princess by the format of the run (use each character at least once)?
You finished Super Mario Bros 2 in 9 minutes and 45 seconds. Sir, you have earned my respect
Speaking of LTTP Randos, any plans to run another 2-1000 of those? I'd settle for some FFVI Randos too...
9:45 that places you at 72nd position, shared with 2 frenchies, will you submit your run?
Mum- ‘You have ten mins and it’s bed time’ - me - this work of art
Is there a time difference between mario 2 and super Mario 2 all stars speed run
I like how the speedrun uses all 4 characters.
love this game. So much more interesting than Lost levels. I never quite liked SMB3 as much as 2. Don't know why
Great job Ryu! Your are on fire! Keep up the great work!
That was a great run, just something about the way you hold that controller bothers me...
When can we get some zelda randomizer?
Welcome to the club, bud.
Nice job man, I'm fuckin proud ah ya! As far as the way to say Ryu, I say do it whatever way you want. I like the way it is pronounced in Shenmue almost like a d-yo type sound like. Also the boss music still kinda freaks me out to this day since a kid lol.
Wow I thought I was good. I played the heck out of this as a kid. I tried so hard to do the bird level with out riding a bird. Good job. And those glitches , didn’t know about those. And the potion wall bounce jump thing… wow. Very nice.
Now castlevania sub 14? :).
What's that picture frame you got with the final fantasy characters?
Appreciated.
Can you beat it without and shortcuts, glitches under same time?
Even the ALL stars version on the SNES still took me at least 2 hours EVEN when using warps to reach world 7 ASAP.
Awesome run!
I never heard a Japanese word or name spoken in my childhood so why thought it was Rye You. Shout out to my favorite Emcee of the 90's-2000's who goes by the same name, Ryan Patrick Maginn (Ryu) of STYLES OF BEYOND! I first heard Ryu Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 with the song Subculture of the then unreleased album Terraform.
Holy Shit! Those were some awesome moves and you utilized a bunch of glitches I'd never seen before! As if that wasn't enough, I even learned the correct way to pronounce RYU after all these years. I am officially subscribed. :)
When is a Mario not a Mario?
When ryu makes him look like a flying hat.
Nice run Ryu!!!
That damned music. Heard it so much I used to fart in the bathtub and it'd come out as the first stages music.
What was that glitch in the first level
What is a randomizer?
Nicely done! Ryu, do you use a foot pedal to advance your timer, or is Tammy doing it for you?
I mean Great run! Good job! 🤘🍻
The way this guy holds his controller is ridiculous…its like how I never could see how people could ever use arcade Joy Sticks.