One summer day, not too long ago, I was contacted by a dude I know, the dude I got my Famicom Mega Man 6 and Fantasy Zone carts from. He had for sale a Super Mario World 9 cart that...well he said it played like Adventure Island 2. Being the curious gamer I am we worked something out and the next thing I knew a small package had arrived for me. Excited, I ran upstairs with my new Super Mario World 9 cart and...

The cart did not work. I tried and tried to get the darn thing to work. After I fiddled with it for half an hour, I took the sledge over the cart. The end. Actually my experience was much better then that. The game loaded up and I saw the Super Mario World 9 title screen. I enter the game itself and the guy was right, it is Adventure Island 2.

When playing any Mario game, I have this bad habit of stomping my enemies. In Super Mario World 9 you cannot do that. Perhaps my bad habit is the reason I stayed in world one for so long :P Unlike Adventure Island 2, in Super Mario World 9 the axes have been replaced with fireballs. To make things even better, you start off with nine lives, just like a cat.

Personally I like Adventure Island 2 as one of the Super Mario Bros. games. The game is very fun and although it reminds me more of a Wario game then a Mario game, it makes a great hack. I don't care for the fact that the cart won't fit in my converter, I always have to use the Game Axe with it or take it out of the case :(