Screw

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Screw
Artwork of a screw, from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins.
Artwork from Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
Appears in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (1992)
Comparable

Screws[1][2] appear in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins as a type of sentient enemy. They are encountered near the end of the Mario Zone's first stage only. The screws wind themselves out of the ground and bounce toward Mario to attack while attempting to drill into him from above. Screws can be defeated either from being jumped on or from a fireball.

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Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten[edit]

ネイジー (JP) / Screw (EN)
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Original text (Japanese) Translation
種族しゅぞく メカ族 Tribe Mecha clan
性格せいかく 根性がねじれている Disposition Guts are twisted
登場とうじょうゲーム ランド2 Game appearances Land 2
はねまわるネジ

マリオランド2に出現する巨大なネジ。ピョンピョンはねながら接近してくるが、これといった攻撃はしかけてこない。ファイアか踏みつけで簡単に倒すことができる。[3]

Spring-loaded screw

A giant screw that appears in Mario Land 2. It approaches with a bouncing leap, but does not attack in any particular way. It can be easily defeated by fire or stomping on it.

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Naming[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. The English version of the book erroneously refers to it as "Neiji",[4] based on its Japanese name "Neijī" (which had been used on the Super Mario Wiki fan website from 2013 to 2022).

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ネイジー[5][6]
Neijī
Corruption of「螺子ねじ」(neji, "screw")
Italian Ninji[7] Romanization of the Japanese name; shared with Ninji
Spanish Neijî[8] Romanization of the Japanese name

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The mechanical Mario has a few loose screws." – December 1992. Nintendo Power Volume 43. Nintendo of America (English). Page 48.
  2. ^ 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.)
  3. ^ 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 144. Retrieved July 1, 2022 from Imgur.
  4. ^ October 23, 2018. Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia: The Official Guide to the First 30 Years. Dark Horse Books (English). ISBN 978-1-50670-897-3. Page 76.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Motoyama, Kazuki (6 Jul. 1993). Super Mario Land 2 - 6-tsu no Kinka 1, Super Mario, vol. 18. Kodansha (Japanese). Page 7.
  7. ^ 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 978-88-9367-436-2. Page 75.
  8. ^ 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 76.