Super Mario Bros. Special is a video game released by Hudson Soft in the spring of 1986. Though it is an officially licensed pseudo-sequel to Super Mario Bros., it is not particularly highly regarded or well-remembered. Due to its being developed by a third-party developer and being released only on a primitive Japanese computer platform for a limited time, this game was all but forgotten by the gaming community until being "discovered" by U.K. games journalist Stuart Campbell in 2003 and written about in PC Zone magazine. Because of this obscurity, some have referred to it as the "true Lost Levels."