It wasn’t, and neither were those sprites for Mario and Toad or that tileset for the castle levels.
In fact, I’m struggling to figure out how this image was made in such a way that it ended up this different from the original game, as opposed to just editing the text on any of the thousands of readily available screenshots of this moment.
What’s that table thing above Mario and Toad? Was that in the original game? I can’t remember.
It wasn’t, and neither were those sprites for Mario and Toad or that tileset for the castle levels.
In fact, I’m struggling to figure out how this image was made in such a way that it ended up this different from the original game, as opposed to just editing the text on any of the thousands of readily available screenshots of this moment.