Iwata Asks, Mario 25th

Cite as: Iwata Asks, Mario 25th
Original: https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/wii/mario25th/
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Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20150725233103id_/http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/_ui/xml/wii/mario25th.xml
Accessed: 2026-10-26
Licence: © Nintendo
Credit: Nintendo Co., Ltd.; Satoru Iwata interviews Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka, and others.
Notes: The pinned copy is the interview's XML, which carries the full text and footnotes; the HTML page is at the url. The editor's note dates the interview to 13 September 2010. Footnote 5 dates Super Mario Bros. 2 to 3 June 1986 and says it "is known as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels in the US". Also read for Koizumi's first encounter with the game and the All-Stars footnote (July 1993).

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The game came out in Japan on 3 June 1986, as Super Mario Bros. 2 for the Famicom Disk System.	`footnote 5`	Publisher
The name The Lost Levels is the one the game carries in English. The earliest use read here is Nintendo Power's September 1993 issue, whose editor explained that the game had been released only in Japan, as Super Mario Bros. 2; who coined the name isn't known.	`footnote 5`	Magazine