Point

Point is a term used in the Mario games. It is acquired by defeating enemies or bosses, collecting Coins, etc. The total of all received points is usually called the Score. The first Mario game to have points in it was the original Donkey Kong arcade game, where they decide the ranking. In Super Paper Mario, points are used to level up the characters, repacing Star Points in the first and the second Paper Mario games.

While in many games points serve some purpose (in Super Mario Land, for example, they let Mario continue after a Game Over if he has enough of them), they are rather useless in other games and serves only as player purpose, such in Super Mario World and the New Super Mario Bros. series. In Super Mario 3D Land, points are replaced completely by Coins. In Super Mario 3D World, they reappear with a major role only in multiplayer mode: the game keeps track of points of every player (but in levels such in the ones with Plessie points are gathered to all players), summing up them at the end of the level. The player with most points gets a prize: a crown. It's worth 5000 points if it can made it to the end. It can be lost if the player who holds it gets hitted by an enemy and can be stole if a player Ground Pound on the crowned character. If the crown player grabs a Double Cherry its crown don't doubles.

The concept of points is used in the Mario Kart series. In the Grand Prix and Versus they are obtained depending from the player position. At the end of the tournament, the player with the most points gets a gold Cup, as well as the second and the third who receive a silver and bronze throphy, rispectively. Points are also used in Battle mode with different uses throughout games. In Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and Mario Kart DS the player can set a rule that makes the winner gain a point and (in Mario Kart DS only) win when reaching a settled amount of points. In Mario Kart Wii the player gains a player for every baloon popped or Coin gained. At the end the points of a team are summed up and the team with more points wins a match. Winning the settled number of matches means winning the battle. In Mario Kart 7 and Mario Kart 8 they works like in Mario Kart Wii but are summed individually. Like in normal gameplay, a player can gain only 10 Coins at time (so they can get only 10 points per match) but in Baloon Battle they can get points undefinitely.

Various Mario sport titles used the concept in various ways like shooting a basketball into the net in Mario Hoops 3-on-3 and Mario Sports Mix, and scoring goals in the Mario Football series.

In the first Super Mario Bros. the player can award this stroke of points by jumping on more enemies with a single jump or defeat more enemies with a Star: 100 - 200 - 400 - 500 - 800 - 1000 - 2000 - 4000 - 8000 - 1UP - 1UP - 1UP ..., while in the New Super Mario Bros. series the chain is different: 200 - 400 - 800 - 1000 - 2000 - 4000 - 8000 - 1UP - 1UP - 1UP ... . If the player starts a chain of jumps from Koopa Bros. the chain starts at 1000. In Super Mario 3D World the 1-Up system is slightly different: 200 - 400 - 800 - 1000 - 2000 - 4000 - 8000 - 1UP - 200 - 400 - 800 ... .