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Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (1992)

Duration: 2:36:38

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Originally Recorded/Aired on June 25th, 2022

Last November, we played Super Mario Land for the Game Boy and, on the request of ElecVerse, we at #SuperOldGameSaturday are playing the next portable entry in the Mario series, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year (though there were technical problems on this video that I'm sorry about and will try to prevent with future shows as much as possible). Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins was the 1992 sequel to Super Mario Land and, along with this Game Boy staple marking the debut of Wario to the Mario enterprise, it's also a uniquely open Mario game, in that it lets you play through any of its main worlds in any order you want. As such, we took the Shadow the Hedgehog approach with this one, as chat decided the order of the worlds we played as we took Mario through Mario Land to get the 6 golden coins to open and reclaim his stolen castle from Wario, who took it while we were out in Sarasaland in the last game. We had a terrific time going into our memories and insights about this one as we played through every level and found all 32 secret exits, specifically how great looking and sounding a game this is (especially the great and cheery music by Kazumi Totaka (including the first appearance of Totaka's Song on this show), how strongly it shows of the capabilities of the Game Boy, how it reflects what portable gaming was like in the 90s and many other topics as varied as the strange enemies in this (even by Mario standards), The Looney Tunes Show, I Am Weasel, the Super Mario Adventures comic that's tied to this game (namely, the Mario & Wario story), the recently released Sonic Origins collection and much more. That, and this play gives us more portable gaming representation on this show, which is always welcome, and it let us fulfill another viewer request, which I and the chat love doing, so thank you ElecVerse for asking to see this one and, to everyone, we do at least one viewer request a month, so let us know in the comments below (or in the chat when we do the shows live) what you want to see and we'll get to them. Hope you enjoy our play of Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (and if you like what you see here, stop by https://www.twitch.tv/captainditrag each Saturday at 7 PM EST to see these streams live and join/help drive the conversations on what we play each week)!

Also, here is the Link List, containing the links to everything we referenced and/or linked to in the chat for this show:

The theme song to I Am Weasel, referenced in our chat discussion/provided by EleVerse and courtesy of Cartoon Network on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvLV3OZAcyg

A link to the Driven Miss Daisy episode of Super Mario Adventures Continued, a fan-dubbed sequel to the Super Mario Adventures comics, referenced to/provided by ElecVerse and courtesy of Hype VoiceActing on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE-h-A0qfyw

A video showing the "Evolution of Totaka's Song (1992 - 2019)", which we also showed in this game, as referenced to/provided by ElecVerse and courtesy of Shiromi on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7lYuAP34gs

The US television commercial for Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins with Wario's hypnotizing attempts, courtesy of PenguinNintendoAge on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZm5cXRShO4

A link to Part 4 of the MediEvil play from/courtesy of The Super Gaming Bros. on YouTube, which goes into co-host Elliot Cancel's "treatment" of ants and other insects:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=795nAsqvm6Y&t=17s

A link showing gameplay of the only other Mario game to have Bunny Mario from Super Mario Land 2 in it; Mario Family, a 2001 Japan-only Game Boy Color sewing pattern program that interfaced the system with a sewing machine to make the patterns (no joke), courtesy of popiBROS1 on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrAGgMqsrfE

"We May Finally Know Why Whales Don't Drown When They Gulp Down Krill", an article written by Carly Cassella explaining how whales have an epiglottis (I was wrong in thinking they didn't), courtesy of ScienceAlert.com:

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-how-baleen-whales-gorge-themselves-without-drowning

A link to the #SuperOldGameSaturday play of this this game's predecessor, Super Mario Land, which is a companion piece to this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBKEvVHkF-s

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