Nintendo Power 52

Cite as: Nintendo Power 52
Original: https://archive.org/details/Nintendo_Power_Issue001-Issue127
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Accessed: 2026-10-26
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Credit: Scan in the Internet Archive item "Nintendo_Power_Issue001-Issue127".
Notes: PDF pages equal printed pages. Read for p. 7, Gail Tilden's Editor's Corner on The Lost Levels (originally Japan-only as Super Mario Bros. 2; the World 9 Challenge); p. 16, the Super Mario All-Stars review's The Lost Levels panel ("waaayy harder than the original SMB", "previously only released in Japan as Super Mario Bros. 2"); p. 18, the "13 different Worlds" line and Luigi's higher jump; p. 22, the World 9 Challenge rules (photo, iron-on patch, deadline 31 October 1993); and p. 100, Pak Watch: Super Mario All-Stars, $59.95, release date August 1993, 16 Megabits.

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Super Mario All-Stars for the Super Famicom collected the game in July 1993, as The Lost Levels, with Super Mario Bros. 1 to 3; it came out in North America in August 1993. Sugiyama, who says he worked on it as an assistant director and designer under another main director, recalls, if he remembers correctly, that Miyamoto proposed the collection; he thinks the idea was to include The Lost Levels to give a game few had played on the Disk System another chance. He says the team added saving, after each level in The Lost Levels, as significant help.	`p. 100, Pak Watch`	Interview
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.	`p. 7, Editor's Corner`	Magazine
Nintendo Power's September 1993 review of Super Mario All-Stars warned that The Lost Levels was "waaayy harder" than the first game, recommended starting with Luigi for his higher jump, and ran a World 9 Challenge: a photo of World 9, reached without warping, by 31 October 1993 earned an iron-on patch.	`p. 16p. 18p. 22, World 9 Challengep. 22, World 9 Challengep. 22, World 9 Challenge`	Magazine