Satellite
| Satellite | |||
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 Artwork from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins | |||
| Appears in | Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (1992) | ||
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Satellites[1][2] are enemies in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. These spinning spiked enemies appear in the final stage of the Mario Zone only. Satellites are almost entirely invincible and spin around spheres similarly to a Roto-Disc or its Super Mario Land counterpart (with Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten even suggesting that the satellites might be a mechanical version of the former),[3] though they are a bit slower. They can be defeated only by running into them while invincible.
Profiles and statistics[edit]
Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten[edit]
| グルグリ (JP) / Satellite (EN) | |||
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| Original text (Japanese) | Translation | ||
| メカ |
Tribe | Mecha clan | |
| まじめ | Disposition | Serious | |
| ランド2 | Game appearances | Land 2 | |
| メカ タマのまわりを、クルグルとまわっているだけのおじゃまキャラ。クッキー（P67）に、 |
Is it a mechanical version of Roto-Disc? This is a character that just goes around and around the balls in a circle. They are similar to Roto-Discs (p. 67) in both movement and personality. It is also difficult to avoid them when they appear in large numbers. | ||
Gallery[edit]
Sprite from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
Mario near a satellite
Names in other languages[edit]
Unlike most mainline Super Mario titles, Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins did not receive officially localized enemy indexes at the time of its release on the Game Boy and not all enemies are listed in its instruction booklets. Consequentially, most available non-Japanese names come from localizations of the Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia.
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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| Japanese | グルグリ[4][5] Guruguri |
From「グルグル」(guruguru, "spinning") and possibly「ちくり」(chikuri, "prickling"); potentially an allusion to Spinner | |
| French | Pointor[6] | Corruption of the English "pointer" | |
| Italian | Satellite[7] | - | |
| Spanish | Satélite[8] | Satellite |
References[edit]
- ^ "Duck to avoid the sharp satellite and hit the block for a Fire Flower." – December 1992. Nintendo Power Volume 43. Nintendo of America (American English). Page 48.
- ^ Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins entry on the official Mario Portal. nintendo.co.jp (English). Retrieved August 13, 2022. (Archived August 13, 2022, 13:51:45 UTC via archive.today.)
- ^ a b 1994. 「パーフェクト版 マリオキャラクター大事典」 (Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten). Shogakukan (Japanese). Page 74.
- ^ Itoi, Shigesato, Takashi Watanabe, Hiroyuki Jinnai (APE), Jin Kobayashi, Ryuji Osawa, and Shigeo Tanabe, editors (1992). 『スーパーマリオランド2: 6つの金貨任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan. ISBN 4-09-102413-0. Page 15.
- ^ Motoyama, Kazuki (6 Jul. 1993). Super Mario Land 2 - 6-tsu no Kinka 1, Super Mario, vol. 18. Kodansha (Japanese). Page 7.
- ^ Ardaillon, Joanna, and Victoria Juillard-Huberty, editors (2018). "Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins" in Super Mario Encyclopedia. Translated by Fabien Nabhan. Toulon: Soleil Productions (French). ISBN 978-2-3020-7004-2. Page 75.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2018). "Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins" in Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Translated by Marco Amerighi. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 75.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2017). "Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins" 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 75.
