I remember being extremely hyped for this game, something I’m sure that copy of Nintendo Power played no small part in. The only time I remember playing it before I got it myself was at Children’s Palace on a Pla圜hoice-10. Christmas 1988 is when most of my friends seemed to get an NES, and I may have been the first of my friends to get this game. It turns out that I got this game about six months after it was released, which as things go, isn’t exactly old. I don’t know when or where I got that copy of Nintendo Power, but it definitely wasn’t when the magazine was new. SMB2 was released on October 9, 1988, which frankly, blows my mind because it had always seemed like it was a new release when I got it. That issue, with the cover featuring the unforgettable clay sculpture of Wart chasing Mario across Subcon, was dated July/August 1988, but I didn’t even get a Nintendo until Christmas of that year. I remember quite clearly that I owned a copy of the issue of Nintendo Power with it on the cover.
As I started planning to write about this game, it became clear to me that a few of the things I thought I knew about this game weren’t entirely accurate. It’s been almost exactly 30 years, so I’m forgiving myself for the shaky memory. I do remember that I had to share it with my sisters, so it was really only one-third mine. I got it in the spring of 1989, either as a gift for Easter or First Holy Communion - I don’t remember which. 2 was the first game that I remember being a big deal for me to get.
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