These are what we call the 'YMMV items.' Things that some people find in this work. We call them 'your mileage might vary' because not everyone sees these things in the same way. This starts discussions in the trope lists, a thing we don't want. Please use the discussion page if you'd like to discuss any of these items.
YMMV: Doki Doki Panic
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 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.
