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Please read: If you are going to replace the current information on the Featured template, please see here before doing that and look at which order our next FA's will be put on this page. Super Mario Bros. 2 (known as Super Mario USA in Japanese) is, outside Japan, the second game in the Super Mario series. It is a 2D platforming game originally released for the Nintendo Entertainment System. In the years that followed, it has been ported to many other systems, including a release on the Virtual Console for the Wii, Nintendo 3DS, and Wii U. The game was originally released in North America on October 9, 1988. As a result of Japan already having a Super Mario Bros. 2 (known in English as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels), the game did not make its debut in the country until after the release of Super Mario World, on July 14, 1992, making it Japan's fifth installment of the series. One of the central game mechanics that differentiates Super Mario Bros. 2 from other Super Mario games is that players can select four characters – Mario, Luigi, Toad, or Princess Toadstool – and each of these characters have their unique gameplay mechanics, offering advantages and disadvantages in their stats. Another distinction is that players cannot defeat enemies by stomping on them: players need to either toss items at enemies or pick up and toss enemies at each other to defeat them.