Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels, as seen on the Wii virtual console. Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, known in Japan as Super Mario Bros. 2 (スーパーマリオブラザーズ2 Sūpā Mario Burazāzu Tsū?), is a platformer video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Famicom Disk System. First released in Japan on June 3, 1986, it is the direct sequel to the second best-selling video game of all time, Super Mario Bros.[1] Due to the high difficulty of the game, Nintendo of America chose not to release it in the United States. A full remake, entitled Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, was included as part of the Super Mario All-Stars collection for the Super NES. More recently, the original Famicom Disk System version was made available as a download (including North America) for the Wii Virtual Console as of 2007.Unlike the 16-bit SNES version, the Virtual Console version is the original 8-bit Famicom version with all its original subtitles (albeit in English instead of Japanese).
