Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic (夢工場 ドキドキパニック, Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panikku, lit. "Dream Factory: Heart-Pounding Panic") is a 1987 Japanese video game released for the Family Computer Disk System about a family who plans to rescue two children. "Doki doki" is a Japanese onomatopoeia for a rapidly beating heart, and it is commonly found in Japanese video game titles, carrying connotations of excitement and anxiety.
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Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic (夢工場 ドキドキパニック, Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panikku, lit. "Dream Factory: Heart-Pounding Panic") is a 1987 Japanese video game released for the Family Computer Disk System about a family who plans to rescue two children. "Doki doki" is a Japanese onomatopoeia for a rapidly beating heart, and it is commonly found in Japanese video game titles, carrying connotations of excitement and anxiety.
The game is known for its Western conversion in 1988 as Super Mario Bros. 2 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, which had its characters changed to those from Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. The western version of Super Mario Bros. 2 was also released in Japan for the Family Computer as Super Mario USA.
The game was developed in cooperation with Fuji Television to promote its Yume Kōjō '87 (tr. Dream Factory '87) event, which showcased several of Fuji TV's latest TV shows and other products at the time. The game featured the mascots of the Yume Kōjō festival — a family consisting...
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