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Break the Targets!

1P Mode opening to Break the Targets! in the original Super Smash Bros.

Break the Targets!, also known as Bonus 1 (Break the Targets), Target Test, and Target Smash is a recurring minigame in the early Super Smash Bros. games. As its name suggests, the player needs to attack and destroy ten floating targets scattered throughout the stage. In both Super Smash Bros. and Super Smash Bros. Melee, each character has a unique stage in Break the Targets built around their capabilities and aesthetic, though in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, it is instead based around difficulty, with five stages shared between all characters. While most targets can be broken in any order, some are placed in such a way to be difficult if not impossible to recover from them, making them intended as the last one to hit. The first game also features a similar minigame called Board the Platforms! The following lists all the Break the Targets stages for Super Mario and adjacent characters in the former two games.

Super Smash Bros.

Mario

Mario's stage is made up of red girders resembling those in Donkey Kong. It features a vertically moving thin red lift on the right and several targets placed a short distance vertically over one another. The left side is separated from the rest by a tall vertical girder that can only be climbed from the central-right section.

Targets

• At the left end of the starting platform, against a wall
• On the other end of the starting platform, beneath a bridge
• Above the starting point, over the tip of an arrow
• Above the previous one, reachable through a Double Jump or Super Jump Punch
• Above the previous one, reachable through a Super Jump Punch
• Off in the distance over the right side, hittable with a Fireball
• At the apex of the red lift's path
• Floating off over the left side of the tall structure reachable from the top of the moving lift
• A short distance below the previous one
• Beneath a hook-shaped platform at the bottom of the fall from the previous two, reachable with careful jumps or the Super Jump Punch

Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong's stage is also made of the red girders. It features thin red platforms that can either move or stay still. It also has a thick moving caution-striped wall floating back-and-forth in the middle.

Targets

• Right at the starting position
• A short distance left of the starting position
• On top of a short jump to the left of the previous one
• On top of a horizontally moving lift over the starting position; the target moves in tandem with the lift.
• Boxed in a square of girders above the previous lift, hittable with the Giant Punch
• In the air over the box from the previous one
• In the air directly to the right of the previous one
• In the air over the right side of the stage, reachable by using Spinning Kong from an unmoving thin red platform near the previous targets
• Floating above another thin platform down and to the right of the previous target
• Underneath the thin platform beneath the previous one

Yoshi

Yoshi's stage is made up of wooden platforms including stairblocks and ones topped with green grass-like material, including on the lifts; this aesthetic is shared with the stages for the game's Pokémon characters. The leftmost area is separated from the rest by a large gap.

Targets

• Directly to the left of the starting position
• Slightly above and to the right of the previous one
• Boxed in a wooden platform to the right, which Yoshi can hit through with his normal attacks
• On top of a platform far above the starting position, reachable with a Flutter Jump
• On the opposite side of a wall of stairblocks from the previous one, reachable by Flutter Jumping underneath it
• Beneath a vertically moving lift on the left side
• Over a pit off the right edge of a structure on the left side of the stage, hittable with Yoshi's normal attacks from the ledge
• Above the platform the previous target was near, hittable with an Egg Throw
• To the left of the previous one, also hittable with an Egg Throw
• Between two diagonal walls beneath the starting position, reachable by riding a horizontally moving lift under the platform and then using a Flutter Jump to go between the walls

Luigi

Luigi's stage is made up of blue floor blocks and features moving, caution-striped apparatuses, with a vertically moving open-bottomed structure to the right and a square-pathed lift to the left, as well as a blue Super Mario Bros.-styled lift moving horizontally beneath.

Targets

• Right next to the starting position
• A short distance above the starting position
• Above the previous one, over the middle arrow; the Super Jump Punch can be used to reach it.
• Off the ledge to the right of the yellow structure; the Super Jump Punch can be used to recover from it.
• On top of an upper "roof" of blocks on the right side over the yellow structure, accessible via the Super Jump Punch
• Over the striped lift on the left
• Above the arrow over the previous one; the Super Jump Punch can be used to reach it.
• Off the edge of an inverted L-shaped cluster of blocks to the lower-left; the Super Jump Punch can be used to recover from reaching this one.
• Under the main platform, reachable from the blue lift at its rightmost point
• Under the moving yellow structure, attackable with a Fireball when the yellow structure's wall is raised.

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Mario

Mario's stage is made of a combination of red and blue girders, with some of the former being slanted akin to 25m in Donkey Kong; Mario starts the stage on one of these slanted ones. It also features track-bound, vertically moving elevators similar to the ones in 75m in the same game. A large pool of water fills the area beneath the stage.

Targets

• At the top of the slanted red girder Mario starts on
• Over the right edge from the previous one, floating beneath a vertical girder
• Immediately to the right of the previous one
• In a girder-surrounded vertical alcove over the previous one
• Over the right edge of the girder platform beneath the previous three, which can be hit with a Fireball
• In an alcove on the leftmost side of the same girder platform
• In an alcove at the top of the blue girder structure, reachable by climbing the descending lifts
• In a narrower alcove midway down the blue structure, requiring a Fireball to squeeze in and hit it.
• Floating near the bottom of the blue structure
• Underneath the red structure; it can be reached with a Super Jump Punch or Cape after a jump from the bottom of the lifts' path.

Bowser

Bowser's stage is made up of white stone resembling castle architecture and features a thin stone lift moving horizontally at the bottom. He starts on a platform in the upper middle. A Flipper appears diagonally down from this platform.

Targets

• On the left edge of the starting platform
• To the right and slightly up from the starting platform
• Under the starting platform, to the right of the Flipper
• Floating to the left of the starting platform
• Beneath a vertical alcove to the far left that can be dodged under
• Down and slightly to the right of the previous one
• Floating over a gap to the right of the previous one, over the area with the moving lift
• Over the right edge of a vertical column up and to the right from the previous one
• Far below the previous one, on a small platform
• Beneath a corner-shaped stone structure in the lower right; it can be reached from a midair Whirling Fortress to go around the wall or ceiling of the corner.

Peach

Peach's stage is made up gray stone, somewhat resembling Bowser's. She starts on a horizontal floor right outside the entrance to a large vertical shaft that can be traveled up or down. There is also a small horizontally moving stone lift beneath.

Targets

• On the left side of the starting platform
• On a smaller platform above the previous one
• Underneath an inverted L-shaped corner floating to the left of the previous two; it can be destroyed and recovered from by going beneath it with Peach Parasol.
• In the corner beneath the starting platform, above the stone lift
• Inside of the vertical path, opposite and slightly above from the entrance
• Down the shaft, over some vertical protrusions in the floor
• Directly to the right of the previous one
• Up the shaft; it can be reached with Peach Parasol from the inside or by climbing a platform outside from the bottom.
• In a small vertical alcove in the upper right; it can be destroyed with Peach Parasol.
• Moving back and forth horizontally over the pit in the lower right; it can be recovered from with Peach Parasol.

Yoshi

Yoshi's stage has cardboard visuals based off of Yoshi's Story. He starts in the corner of a platform somewhat resembling an L or Z shape. A moving cloud-shaped lift moves horizontally in the lower left of the stage.

Targets

• On top of a platform up and to the right of the starting position.
• Inside an upward-facing hook-shaped structure above most of the rest of the stage and over the starting platform, which can be reached with Flutter Jumps or an Egg Throw.
• Beneath a red block to the right from the previous one.
• Bouncing on the left edge of the platform far beneath the previous one.
• At the top of a slope down and to the right of the previous one.
• At the bottom of the half-pipe-like slope, which can be sped through with an Egg Roll.
• Over a bridge at the top of the other side of the slope.
• Inside a left-facing hook-shaped structure on the left side of the stage to the left of the previous one.
• Floating over the midpoint of where the cloud lift moves.
• In an alcove beneath the bridge, reachable from the cloud lift.

Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong's stage is also made of the red and blue girders. He starts at the bottom of several slanting girders, resembling 25m from Donkey Kong. Gray metal lifts move horizontally in the lower left and near the upper right, though four static lifts of the same design also appear.

Targets

• Immediately to the left of the starting position
• Immediately to the right of the starting position
• Going up and down at the top of the first sloping girder
• On the middle red girder
• In a small corner on the right side of the topmost red girder
• Beneath a thin gray stationary lift to the left of the red girders, over the blue girders
• Above and slightly to the right of the same gray platform
• Above and slightly to the right of the previous one, directly to the left of the upper moving lift
• Floating in the air between the red and blue structures; it can be reached with Spinning Kong from the motionless lift in the upper right.
• At the top of the blue structure, to the left of the previous one

Dr. Mario

Dr. Mario's stage is also made of the red and blue girders. It features silver horizontally moving lifts resembling the orange ones in Super Mario Bros. that go in and out from the walls. The player starts on a gray block surrounded by blue girders.

Targets

• Above the starting point and to the right of a blue girder column, reachable by climbing a few lifts
• Above and to the left of the same blur girder column
• To the left of the same blue girder column, between lifts
• Below the previous one, sitting over a void; it can be reached with a midair attack from above.
• Below the starting platform; it can be hit with the Super Sheet and then recovered from with a Super Jump Punch.
• Inside a red bracket-shaped girder structure to the right of the starting point, which can be reached via the lowest lift's rightmost spot
• Underneath a red girder ceiling to the right of the blue column; it can be reached with a midair attack from one of the lifts.
• On the opposite side of the red girder column from the previous one, which can be attacked through the girder with a Super Jump Punch or directly by going over the girder ceiling to it.
• In the upper right of the entire stage; it can be reached with a vertically moving lift on the right side reachable by going over or under the red girder structure.
• Underneath the aforementioned vertically moving lift; it can be recovered from with a well-timed Super Jump Punch.

Luigi

Luigi's stage is made of green girders positioned into a square, with a small gap in the floor's center, a Nintendo GameCube floating still in the middle of the room, and three floating Flippers with one revolving clockwise around the GameCube in a diagonal round-cornered square shape path; and two bouncing around in an X-shape in different directions along the square's interior and the GameCube, both hitting each side of the square twice and each side of the GameCube once per revolution. All of the targets here move in some manner.

Targets

• Crawling along all interior surfaces of the square, ignoring the gap
• On the floor in the lower right, only moving briefly to let the previous one past
• Moving vertically between the gap and the GameCube
• Slowly moving horizontally back and forth along the ceiling
• Moving up and down in the upper-right section
• Bouncing clockwise between the four central spots on each girder surface in a diagonal square shape, bouncing off the gap as if it were solid
• Same as the previous one, but counterclockwise
• Bouncing on a counterclockwise trajectory resembling a thin diagonal rectangle going between points near the upper left and lower right corners
• Bouncing in an arcing W-shape between the walls while never reaching the ceiling, hitting the ground twice and going over the GameCube between them
• Bouncing in an erratic zigzag rapidly going between the ceiling and floor, slowly moving horizontally along the room's length before bouncing back the other way

Board the Platforms!

1P Mode opening to Board the Platforms!

Board the Platforms!, also known as Bonus 2 (Board the Platforms), is a minigame found in the original Super Smash Bros. as a companion to Break the Targets! In it, the player character must stand on ten floating platforms of varying sizes scattered throughout a stage. The platforms that have not yet been activated have a blinking red light, while ones that have been have a solid blue light instead. Like Break the Targets in that game, every character has a different layout based around their capabilities and the aesthetic of their home series. The following lists all the Board the Platforms stages for Super Mario and adjacent characters.

Mario

Mario's stage is made up of red girders resembling those in Donkey Kong. It also features superheated areas that cause burn-based damage if touched, and rising-and-falling girder columns that must be used to cross them. However, the undersides of the same girder platforms become downward-shoving obstacles in the section beneath these ones.

Platforms

• A large platform shortly to the right of the starting point
• A large platform a single jump to the right of the previous one
• A large platform over the ledge down and to the right of the previous one
• A medium platform on one of the moving girders in the superheated area
• A medium platform on another moving girder to the left of the previous one
• A medium platform on another moving girder to the left of the previous two
• A small platform in the path beneath the heated area, specifically at a pit under the second moving girder
• A large platform incorporated into the floor after the section with the moving girder obstacles
• A small platform located partway up a sequence of small blue footholds on the right side
• A large platform at the top of the series of blue footholds

Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong's stage is also made up of red girders and features heated areas and additionally features thin red lifts and large gaps.

Platforms

• A large platform to the right of the starting point
• A large platform a single jump to the right of the previous one
• A large platform another single jump to the right of the previous one
• A large platform in an alcove over the first superheated area, above a horizontally moving platform
• A large platform in another alcove to the right of the previous one
• A medium platform located down a ledge and slightly to the left after the first heated area
• A large platform located far to the left of the previous one over a long stretch of hot floor, safely reachable with Spinning Kong
• A medium platform moving vertically in and out of a tall alcove to the left of the previous one, which can be reached by jumping under a girder wall or using Spinning Kong from a small girder beneath the hot area
• A medium platform in the air over the previous one, which can be reached from the previous one's zenith
• A medium platform located across a gap to the right of the girder beneath the hot area, reachable with Spinning Kong

Yoshi

Yoshi's stage is made of wood, sharing its aesthetic with the game's Pokémon characters' stages. It features wooden stairblocks, some of which have more stairblocks moving in and out from them. There are also groups of rapidly moving wooden lifts resembling the ones in Super Mario Bros. 3, in which some of the platforms are hidden.

Platforms

• A large platform located above the starting point and the first pushing slab of stairblocks
• A large platform located further up from the previous one, over another pushing slab
• A small platform located over a ledge at the end of a ramp to the right of the previous one
• A large platform located a single jump down and to the right from the previous one
• A large platform located another single jump down and to the right from the previous one
• A medium platform moving amongst four lifts rapidly descending to the right of the previous one, returning to the top after going to the bottom
• A medium platform to the right near the bottom of the descending lifts' path
• A large platform moving amongst three lifts that travel right before sinking, all to the left of the descending lifts from before
• A large platform located immediately after the previous one in the same sequence of right-moving lifts
• A small platform located to the left across the right-moving lifts

Luigi

Luigi's stage is made up of blue floor blocks and gray stairblocks, and also features green pipes the platforms can emerge from on the upper left, and a swinging chain of small red girders and platforms connected through non-interactable circle links on the right side.

Platforms

• A large platform directly above the starting point
• A medium platform moving in and out of the pipe to the left of the starting point
• A medium platform moving in and out of the pipe to the right of the starting point, in alternation with the previous one
• A medium platform moving in and out of the pipe beneath the starting point, in alternation with the previous two
• A large platform beneath a moving ramp made of stairblocks sliding in and out of a larger group of stairblocks
• A large platform reachable by jumping beneath a wall of stairblocks to the right of the previous one to land on some blue floor
• A large platform located shortly above the previous one
• A medium platform located midway up the swinging chain in the upper right, reachable with the Super Jump Punch
• A small platform located at the zenith of the swinging chain, with this platform being still
• A medium platform located beneath an open-bottomed square of blue floor in the lower right, reachable with the Super Jump Punch