LiC: Doki Doki Panic, and I feel the same way when I see people play games like that.
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These guys probably spend all of their free time practicing, because the average gamer (hardcore or not) isn\'t that damned skilled at any specific game.
About Doki Doki Panic.. it was a Nintendo collaboration. Yeah, they decided to slap Mario and friends in there.. but the game was developed by Nintendo from the get-go. Since Nintendo felt that US gamers weren\'t nearly as skilled as Japanese gamers, they scrapped plans to bring the more difficult SMB2 (aka Lost Levels) to America and instead opted for the Doki Doki Panic treatment.
I don\'t think that it had anything to do with rushing a game out, a more plausible negative spin to throw on the game is that it was a lazy choice. They took a
released Japan-only game and Mario-ized it. SMB3 was built from the ground up as an upgrade to the gameplay mechanics of SMB1. They did the same thing with Zelda:LTTP, although I\'m pretty sure that Miyamoto always intended for Zelda II to be a Zelda game.