#peach (princess toadstool)

Behold one of the most terrifying things to exist upon the Nintendo Entertainment System...

The second installment of the Super Mario Brothers series is an odd duck since it started life as an unrelated game called Doki Doki Panic. It was reskinned when Japan’s Super Mario Brothers sequel was deemed too difficult for American audiences and due to this pedigree the entire game has an air of quiet displacement about it. Mario and his allies were never supposed to be in this world, after…