Taxi token
| Taxi token | |
|---|---|
| |
| First appearance | Mario is Missing! (MS-DOS) (1993) |
| Latest appearance | Mario is Missing! (Macintosh) (1994) |
| Effect | Transports the user from one location to another on the map. |
| Variant of | Locator |
Taxi tokens[1] are small taxi-shaped pickups exclusive to the DOS and CD-ROM Deluxe versions of Mario is Missing!. When Luigi first arrives at a city, he has three in his possession, but additional tokens are scattered throughout the city.
Taxi tokens can be spent to take a taxi to any point in the city, showing a brief cutscene from the back seat of the taxi set to an arrangement of Super Mario World's underground theme; it deducts 10 seconds from the timer. While normally, this is purely for the sake of convenience, Alcatraz and Statue of Liberty's Information Booths can only be reached by taxi due to being an island. As a result, if the player uses their last taxi token to travel to Alcatraz Island, they will not be able to return, putting the game in an unwinnable state.
Internal names[edit]
| Game | File | Name | Meaning
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|---|---|---|---|
| Mario is Missing! (Macintosh) | TAXI LOC PIC | TAXI LOC PIC | Taxi Locator Picture |
Multimedia[edit]
 Taxi token | File info |
References[edit]
- ^ "Luigi, it's me again. I just overheard Bowser telling the Koopas how to use the taxi cabs in the cities. Find some of those yellow taxi tokens. Then click on the big map to tell the driver where you want to go. Talk to you later!" ~ Mario's videophone call in San Francisco
