Tick Tock Clock
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This article is about the level Tick Tock Clock. For information about the race course Tick Tock Clock, see Tick Tock Clock (course).
Tick Tock Clock is the fourteenth course in Super Mario 64 and its slightly enhanced remake, Super Mario 64 DS that takes place inside a giant clock. Mario must deal with the clock's moving gears, pendulums, and other obstacles that change speed depending on what position the clock's minute hand is in when he jumps into the level. Tick Tock Clock is the second to last level in both games and is found on the third floor of Peach's Castle. It also was remade into a race course that appears in the Star Cup of Mario Kart DS.
The entrance to the level is an old grandfather clock, and the minute hand controls the time inside. Enter when the hand points at 12, and all moving parts will freeze. Enter at 3 to make the parts move slowly, 9 to make them move quickly, and 6 to do a tricky combination of both. But in order to open the star door in front of it, Mario will need at least 50 Power Stars.
[edit] Trivia
- The star called The Pit and the Pendulums is a pun on the book The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe.
