First of all:
That's a damn good game! I'm glad you're playing it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did when it first released. I feel old now. You're calling it a "retro" Mario game. I still remember the commercials for it.
Secondly:
Square and Squaresoft is/was the same thing. According to my research (yeah, I looked it up) those two names were pretty much used interchangeably. So a game could say "Developed by Square" and another could say "Developed by Squaresoft", but it's the same company.and I noticed something. I'm not sure if it's just evolved or what, but along with Nintendo, SQUARE was part of it too. This was in 1990 or somewhere close. Then I played FFVII for the PS1. It said SQUARE SOFT. Now FF games are saying SQUARE ENIX. I wonder why they changed it twice? Just a thought
As for why they changed to Square-Enix, it's pretty much because Squaresoft lost a lot of money when they released Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, and in order to stay in the game, they merged with Enix. Or so that's how I understood it to be.
Oh, and Super Mario RPG: TLOTSS was released in 1996, just so you know.
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