

Music also has a minor importance in the game in the form of the magic flutes (borrowed from the original The Legend of Zelda), a secret item leading to the Warp Zone. Still composed by Koji Kondo, the soundtrack is bigger and arguably better than the first game being composed near the end of the Famicom's life cycle, it uses the five audio channels more efficiently to create more diverse and situational tracks. According to the game's creator Shigeru Miyamoto, the game is actually a staged performance of the events. It is up to Mario and Luigi to retrieve them and return the kings to their original forms. Bowser and his minions the Koopalings stole the magic scepters of several kings and transformed them into animals. The plot of the game is very basic, as usual for early Mario games. It got a sequel on SNES titled Super Mario World, and a spiritual sequel in the form of the Nintendo 3DS game Super Mario 3D Land. It introduced many classic elements to the series like the world map, the Koopalings, slopes, and flight power-ups.

3 can be considered the first true sequel to the original Super Mario Bros. 2 ("The Lost Levels") was more of an expansion pack of the first game and the international version a reskin of Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic, Super Mario Bros.

Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury Release Day.
