When it was localized, it changed into Tetris Attack with Yoshi as the main character because Americans at the time weren’t exactly into the “magical fairy girls” thing.

In fact, the same type of thing happened with the original SNES Panel de Pon. Looking at the comments above about how “Yossy” was changed to the American version, “Yoshi”, I don’t think it was ever a relationship of “leader and follower”, so to speak, but more of a give and take sort of thing. That’s not to say they aren’t region-checked on their consoles or anything of course, but just that “the Japanese version isn’t the definitive version”. I’ve always thought of Nintendo’s flagship series’ as being region-independent. Judging from the comments, it looks like most people didn’t know. So if you’ve ever wanted to play SMB4, you probably already have! 4! In fact, even the guides for the game call it by the full “Super Mario Bros. The Japanese text below it also says “Super Mario World”.Īgain, it’s referred to as Super Mario Bros. Because the Japanese box looks like this:Īs you can see, it’s called “Super Mario Bros. I assume the same holds true for releases in other territories too… except for Japan. 4 does exist – it’s Super Mario World! I’m sure this is really old news to most people, but it’s probably new news for a few, so let’s take a look!įirst, here’s a look at the Super Mario World box that was released in North America:

3 to Super Mario World, and from there the series naming just got crazier. 4 had been made – after all, the series went from Super Mario Bros. Every so often I see retro gamers post about how they wish a Super Mario Bros.

How many world are in super mario bros