Mad Piano
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- This article is about the piano enemy from Super Mario 64. For the souvenir in WarioWare: Touched!, see Piano.
| Mad Piano | |||
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| First appearance | Super Mario 64 (1996) | ||
| Latest appearance | Super Mario 3D All-Stars (2020) | ||
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The Mad Piano[1] is an enemy appearing in Super Mario 64 and Super Mario 64 DS. The Mad Piano appears only in Big Boo's Haunt and protects a Red Coin found behind it. The Mad Piano looks like a normal baby grand piano and is harmless at first, but when the player approaches it, it begins to open and close its lid, revealing sharp teeth. The Mad Piano proceeds to chase and attack the player (while making the sounds that sound like someone hitting its keys) until they are far enough away. If hit by the Mad Piano, the player loses three wedges of health. The Nintendo Power Player's Guide erroneously states that the Mad Piano can be defeated.[1]
Though the Mad Piano has not appeared in any other game of the Super Mario franchise, some pianos similar to it have made an appearance. In Mario Party 2, during the night in Horror Land, a similar piano plays in a band with a violin and trumpet. In Mario Party 8, another similar piano appears on the board King Boo's Haunted Hideaway. In Luigi's Mansion 3, Amadeus Wolfgeist, the boss of The Great Stage, possesses his grand piano to attack Luigi in a similar manner to the Mad Piano, a connection to which Nintendo of Europe's X account made a reference,[2] but some of the grand piano attacks involve actions such as lunging upward in an attempt to land on Luigi.
Gallery[edit]
Super Mario 64 in-game model
The Mad Piano attacking Mario in Super Mario 64
The Mad Piano in Super Mario 64 DS
Names in other languages[edit]
The contemporaneous name for each language is listed first. Subsequent names are listed in chronological order for each language, from oldest to newest, and have the media they are associated with in the "Notes" column.
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | キラーピアノ[3][4][5] Kirā Piano |
Killer Piano; comparable to「キラーブック」(Kirā Bukku, "Bookend") | |
| French | Mad Piano[6] | - | |
| Piano[7] | Super Mario 64 | ||
| Piano fou[8] | Mad Piano | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia | |
| German | Vampiano[9] | Portmanteau of vampir ("vampire") and "piano" | |
| Italian | Pianoforte[10] | Piano | Nintendo Official Magazine |
| Mad Piano[11] | - | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia | |
| Spanish | Piano[12] | - | |
| Killer Piano[13] | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia |
References[edit]
- ^ a b "'Mad Piano This baby grand can’t beat the band, but it can beat Mario. Just stay away from its smashing lid and biting keys. With a lot of effort, you can beat the piano, but you won’t get anything for doing so." – Pelland, Scott, and Dan Owsen (1996). Super Mario 64 Player's Guide. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 12.
- ^ NintendoEurope (November 25, 2019). If the haunted piano from Super Mario 64 still gives you nightmares, please keep scrolling.. Twitter (British English). Retrieved May 22, 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Noriaki, Kamiguchi, Kaisa Hitoshi, Teshiromori Nobuhito, Nagashima Kazutaka, Somoto Shitsuya, and Matsumoto Royo (2005). 『「スーパーマリオ64DS」タッチ！＆ゲット！パワースター
攻略 ブック』. Tokyo: Kadokawa (Japanese). ISBN 4-8402-2960-0. Page 87. - ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2015). "Super Mario 64" in『スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 978-4-09-106569-8. Page 85.
- ^ Sawada, Yukio, editors (February 21, 2018). Super Mario Manga Adventures T16. Soleil Productions (French). ISBN 978-2-30206-555-0. Page 28.
- ^ Huyghues-Lacour, Alain, and Jean-Pierre Labro, editors (1997). "Super Mario 64" in le Nintendo Magazine officiel, no. 1. Emap-Alpha (French). Page 91.
- ^ Ardaillon, Joanna, and Victoria Juillard-Huberty, editors (2018). "Super Mario 64" in Super Mario Encyclopedia. Translated by Fabien Nabhan. Toulon: Soleil Productions (French). ISBN 978-2-3020-7004-2. Page 85.
- ^ 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 9.
- ^ Roberto Ferri (April 1999). Official Nintendo Magazine issue 6. Milan: Xenia Edizione S. r. L. (Italian). Page 73.
- ^ 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 85.
- ^ Guías Nintendo (2007). Seek the 8 red coins (Las 8 endiabladas monedas rojas). Guía Super Mario 64 (European Spanish). (Archived April 18, 2024, 12:38:57 UTC via Wayback Machine.)
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2017). "Super Mario 64" in Enciclopedia Super Mario Bros. 30ª Aniversario. Translated by Gemma Tarrés. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, S.A. (European Spanish). ISBN 978-84-9146-223-1. Page 85.
