HELP! Need help getting info on this game...

[tree4twenty]

Hello,
I am a big NES collector and often I will go to thrift stores and try to find some gems. Well, last summer I found this version of Super Mario 2 that I had never seen on NES before.
It is the same original version that released for the Famicom, and later on Super Mario Allstars for SNES, but never NES.
I have tried searching around the internet for info, but no luck.
Anybody have any ideas?

[killsonic]

So it's effectively 'The Lost Levels', as opposed to the the 'Super Mario Bros. 2' that was actually a remake of 'Doki Doki Panic', which was released in the US and Europe?

Perhaps it's a pirate; as the Japanese version of 'Mario Bros. 2' wasn't seen outside of Japan (officially) until 'All-Stars' on the SNES (I think).

So perhaps someone thought it would be cool to jump the gun and beat nintendo to it.

What do you think & what does VGK (which is written on the cart) stand for?

And PS: Check this out:

http://video.playmagazine.com/forums...php?t6021.html

(about 3 quarters of the way down the page) Someone has found the same cart as you.)

And here:

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/show....php?p=1455209

(search for VGK) apparently their a company that manages repros. (whatever that means; reproduction perhaps?).

[tree4twenty]

Yup, its a pirate...
I had never searched for the "VGK" until you mentioned it...
http://videogamekingdom.net/Reproduction%20Games/Nes%20Reproductions.html

[killsonic]

Ah, so the mystery is solved no?