Doki Doki Panic/YMMV


 * Hilarious in Hindsight: Mama was simply an Action Mom before DDP got ported to the U.S. and her sprite was replaced with Luigi's. Surprisingly, a few years later, the animated version of Super Mario World launched an episode called "Mama Luigi", which would later become the Internet meme on YouTube Poop.
 * Imajin was originally The Mario of this game. Guess who replaced him.
 * Needs More Love: The game was well-made and as innovative as Super Mario Brothers (it was designed by Shigeru Miyamoto, after all). However, it seems to be doomed to go down in history as "that fake Mario game".
 * Oddly enough, it somehow managed to get a song in Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix.
 * Nightmare Fuel: The 1-Ups in this game were the head of your chosen character. SMB2 changed this to the iconic 1-Up Mushroom. Also, what would become SMB2's Hawkmouth was a slightly scary tiki-like mask. World 7's vegetables were mean-looking, and the Mushroom Blocks were menacing masks.
 * Inverted Trope with Phanto, who looked like a generic opera mask in this game. Strangely enough, Super Mario Advance's instruction manual would use the original DDP design.
 * No Problem With Licensed Games: Thanks to Nintendo.
 * Unfortunate Implications: SMB2's red Koopa shell was a Blackface head in this game.