Doki Doki Panic

* Super Mario Bros. 2 started life as a game called Doki Doki Panic, released for Japanese audiences.

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Birdo is a pink dinosaur that first appeared in the Japanese game Yume Ko-jo-: Doki Doki Panic.

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We got the cartoony version of SMB2 with vegetables as weapons and the floating Princess Toadstool instead it was a rehash of the Japanese game Doki Doki Panic.

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Mario team, Doki Doki Panic's colorful world, catchy music and gorgeous artwork fit in well with Nintendo's star characters.

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Doki Doki Panic was actually part of a deal with the Fuji corporation, in which Nintendo would produce a tie-in videogame for a media-technology expo called Yume Kōjō , or "Dream Factory."

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Doki Doki Panic, left starred a cast of Arabian Nights-type characters and different enemy designs from vgmuseum.com

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The Mario sequel was originally released in Japan as Doki Doki Panic , starring a wholly different cast of characters.

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Released in 1987, Doki Doki Panic was one of the biggest hits on Nintendo's

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Doki Doki Panic, swapping the game's characters out for the Mario cast.

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So as far as the gaijin were concerned, a repainted Yume Kojo: Doki Doki Panic was Super Mario Bros.

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