Crazed Crate
Crazed Crate | |
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![]() Model from Super Mario 64 | |
First appearance | Super Mario 64 (1996) |
Latest appearance | Super Mario 3D All-Stars (2020) |
Variant of | Block (Super Mario 64) |
A Crazed Crate,[1][2] or Crazy Crate,[3] is a block in Super Mario 64 and Super Mario 64 DS. Crazed Crates resemble standard blocks but with the same dizzy face on each side, including sclerae in Super Mario 64 DS.
HistoryEdit
Super Mario 64 / Super Mario 64 DSEdit
Two Crazed Crates appear in the courses Big Boo's Haunt, Lethal Lava Land, and Tall, Tall Mountain, as well as one in Shifting Sand Land in Super Mario 64 and Super Mario 64 DS. If a player character grabs a Crazed Crate (or Yoshi eats it in the remake), he first bounces in the direction faced, followed by two increasingly higher bounces before the Crazed Crate explodes, revealing five coins. Bouncing off a wall is not counted as one of the three bounces.
Mario Party seriesEdit
Whomp Blocks, as they are titled in English for Mario Party, are in the minigame Box Mountain Mayhem, where they bounce away players who hit them.
Some Crazed Crates are decorations in the Mario Party 2 board Bowser Land.
GalleryEdit
Screenshot from Super Mario 64
Screenshot from Mario Party
Screenshot from Mario Party 2
Screen-cropped model from Super Mario 64 DS
Names in other languagesEdit
Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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Japanese | バッタブロック[4] Batta Burokku |
Grasshopper Block | |
German | Pseudo-Box[5] | False Box | |
Italian | Cassa saltellante[6] | Jumpy crate | Nintendo Official Magazine |
Cassa Pazza[7] | Crazy Crate | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ "Grabbing a Crazed Crate in a course like Lethal Lava Land would seem to be an insane thing to do, given that there's a good chance the crate will take you for a wild ride out into the lava." – Pelland, Scott and Dan Owsen (1996). Super Mario 64 Player's Guide. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 63.
- ^ "Be careful when you grab the Crazed Crate at the beginning of the course. It can take you out into the quicksand if you grab it from the wrong angle." – Pelland, Scott and Dan Owsen (1996). Super Mario 64 Player's Guide. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 69.
- ^ Course 7 - Star 7: Collect 100 Coins. Nintendo: Super Mario 64 Strategy (American English). Archived June 10, 1998, 06:47:26 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
- ^ Takashi, Watanabe, Noriko Oketani, Yugo Nagasawa, and Junichiro Okubo, editors (1996). 『任天堂公式ガイドブック スーパーマリオ64』(Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook – Super Mario 64). Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-102554-4. Page 4.
- ^ Kraft, John D., Thomas Görg, and Marko Hein, editors (1997). Der offizielle Nintendo 64 Spieleberater "Super Mario 64". Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). Page XX.
- ^ Roberto Ferri (May 1999). Official Nintendo Magazine issue 7. Milan: Xenia Edizione S. r. L. (Italian). Page 84.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2018). "Super Mario 64" in Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Translated by Marco Amerighi. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 92.