Play Super Mario Bros 2 - Dream Courses Online

You toss turnips at Shy Guys while bouncing through glitchy dream levels—Birdo pops up behind a waterfall, pipes spit you into the sky, and nothing makes sense in the best way. Feels like playing a weird Mario 2 ROM hack you found on an old floppy disk.

Developer: Nintendo

Genre: Platform

Released: 1992

File size: 678.57 KB

Game Overview

Okay, so "Super Mario Bros 2: Dream Courses" isn't actually a real SNES game—but man, it should be. Imagine if someone took the weird, floaty physics of Mario 2 (the one where you pluck veggies and throw them at Shy Guys) and mashed it up with a level editor. You'd get these trippy, custom stages full of warp pipes that go nowhere, conveyor belts that fling you into the sky, and those creepy Birdo bosses showing up where they absolutely shouldn't.

It'd play like a lost prototype from 1993—bright, janky, and secretly brilliant. The kind of thing you'd rent from a video store, beat in one sitting, then spend years wondering if you hallucinated the whole experience. I can already picture the grainy VHS-quality trailer: "MARIO IS BACK... IN YOUR DREAMS." Nintendo, if you're listening, we need this.

Until then, I guess we'll just have to settle for building nonsense in Mario Maker and pretending it's an obscure SNES ROM.