Miyamoto : 1st Zelda game got HEAVY OPPOSITION from Ninty!

[NightDragon83]

lapsed_gamer said:

NightDragon83 said:
That's not really surprising when you look at the big picture... after all, this is the same company that thought the real SMB 2 would be too hard for western audiences and decided to put Mario characters into a completely separate game and slap a "2" on it and call it a day.

I thank them for this choice. And the Mario world is still enriched because of it.

Oh I do too!  Hell, I can guarantee you that had Nintendo given us the Japanese SMB2, and then released SMB2 USA  the way it was originally (obviously with a more Western-appropriate name), it would have still been a big hit because it was just so much fun to play.  I know my friends and I would definitely have gotten a copy of it!