Nintendo Channel Miyamoto interview (TMK transcript)

Cite as: Nintendo Channel Miyamoto interview (TMK transcript)
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Accessed: 2026-10-26
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Credit: The Mushroom Kingdom's transcription of the English subtitles of Nintendo Channel's December 2010 Miyamoto interview, made for Super Mario Bros.'s 25th anniversary; the site credits NintenDaan for saving the videos. A transcript, not Nintendo's own text.
Notes: Read for Miyamoto on The Lost Levels: the VS System was used to change the levels, some levels "defy the laws of physics", infinite 1-UPs were added from the beginning, and "we put a sticker on the package that said 'For Super Players'". The transcript keeps the subtitles' errors and marks some with [sic].

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The game was aimed at players who had mastered the first. Miyamoto recalls a sticker on the package that said "For Super Players", and a note to Nintendo's NES Classic interview describes it as a tougher challenge developed for advanced players. Nintendo's page today pitches it at people who played Super Mario Bros. to exhaustion, with a higher difficulty. Iwata, interviewing the All-Stars developers in 2010, described it the same way: he said they made it for advanced players, and Sugiyama agreed.	`Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels`	Web
Miyamoto recalls that the team used the arcade VS. System, based on the Famicom, to make Super Mario, started changing its levels because they could, and, as they played, made "very challenging levels", and that the game gave infinite 1-ups early to prepare players for what came. IGN's 2010 history says its later stages came from Vs. Super Mario Bros.	`Super Mario Bros.: The Lost LevelsSuper Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels`	Web