Clock hand

Clock hand
Model from Super Mario 64
First appearance	Super Mario 64 (1996)
Latest appearance	Super Mario 3D All-Stars (2020)

Clock hands (originally known as minute hands) appear as platforms in Super Mario 64 and Super Mario 64 DS and as obstacles in the Mario Kart series.

History

Super Mario 64 / Super Mario 64 DS

Two minute hands appear in Tick Tock Clock as long platforms, with one being a short distance up from the start and the other being at the top. They rotate in incremental intervals around a pivot point at the center of the course. The speed they move are affected by how the player character enters Tick Tock Clock's face; if the minute hand on the face is near "12" when the player character enters, they do not move at all. The minute hands are respectively featured in the missions "Get a Hand" and "Stomp on the Thwomp", in which the player character is intended to ride a minute hand to access the area containing the respective Power Star, though other methods to reach the Stars also exist in both cases.

Mario Kart series

Clock hands are featured in the Mario Kart DS course Tick-Tock Clock. A clock face near the start features two of them moving in opposite directions, and another one near the end has a single clock hand. If a racer drives into a clock hand, they get spun out.

Clock hands return alongside the course in Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, but they now spin very slowly and are shorter than they were in the original; they can also be driven across and used as trick ramps instead of spinning out any racers that touch them.

Gallery

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  Super Mario 64
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  Mario Kart DS
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  Mario Kart DS
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  Mario Kart 8
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  Mario Kart 8

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Note(s)	Ref.
Japanese	時計の針 Tokei no Hari	Clock Hand
Italian	Lancetta	Clock hand