19th December 2009, 4:12 PM
As I mentioned in my review, lots of the gameplay mechanics added to SMB2 made it into sequals. Picking stuff up, while done in a more limited fasion, became a regular move for Mario in later games. I prefer SMB3 as my all time favorite 2D Mario, but SMB2 is a great game and I don't think SMB3 would have been as good without the various additions SMB2 brought to the series.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)