New details emerge for Mario Advance

The Japanese launch of the Game Boy Advance is almost with us, March 21st will be a day to be remembered. No one can deny the massive success the Game Boy has enjoyed, 100 million units sold worldwide speaks for itself. The Game Boy Advance is an amazing piece of hardware and it is almost guaranteed to be a success as well. We have been lucky enough to play a Game Boy Advance and we can tell you it is better than a Super Nintendo Entertainment System, especially when it comes to 3D graphics. On a handheld, that’s impressive.

One of the most highly anticipated games for the new Game Boy is Mario Advance. This new Mario game will be based on Super Mario Bros. 2. This is actually quite a surprising choice; Super Mario Bros. 2 was not an original Mario game. On the original NES system English and American gamers were given a conversion of The Dream Factory, a Japanese platformer. When Super Mario All-Stars came out on the SNES, we finally got a chance to play the Lost Levels, the official sequel.

Regardless, Mario Advance will be a fantastic platformer, it could possibly be the first platformer to offer a four-player simultaneous game mode. This four-player outing is similar to the original Mario Bros., where Mario and Luigi had to rid the sewers of turtles. We’ll bring you more tasty details and screenshots as soon as we get them.