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|image=[[File:SMO Screenshot Board.jpg|200x200px]]<br>Screenshot from ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]''

|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario 64]]'' ([[List of games by date#1996|1996]])

|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario Bros. Wonder]]'' ([[List of games by date#2023|2023]])

|effect=Provides information when read.

{{quote2|To read a sign, stand in front of it and press B, like you did just now.|Sign in the [[Bob-omb Battlefield]]|[[Super Mario 64]]}}

 

'''Signs''',<ref>{{cite|author=[[Nintendo of America]]|date=1996|title=''Super Mario 64 Instruction Booklet''|format=PDF|url=https://m1.nintendo.net/docvc/NUS/USA/NSME/NSME_E.pdf|location=Redmond|publisher=Nintendo of America|page=8}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=[[Nintendo of America]]|date=2005|title=''Super Mario 64 DS Instruction Booklet''|location=Redmond|publisher=Nintendo of America|page=13}}</ref><ref>{{cite|quote=While standing in front of certain characters or signs, you can press {{button|wii|a}} to speak or read.|author=[[Nintendo of America]]|date=2007|title=''Super Mario Galaxy Instruction Booklet''|format=PDF|url=https://csassets.nintendo.com/noaext/image/private/t_KA_PDF/Wii_Super_Mario_Galaxy?_a=BATCtdAA0|location=Redmond|publisher=Nintendo of America|page=13}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=[[Nintendo|Nintendo of Europe]]|date=2012|title=''Paper Mario: Sticker Star''|format=electronic manual|url=https://cdn02.nintendo-europe.com/media/downloads/games_8/emanuals/nintendo_3ds_2/paper_mario_sticker_star/ElectronicManual_Nintendo3DS_PaperMarioStickerStar_EN.pdf|location=Großostheim|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|page=8}}</ref><ref>{{cite|quote=A classic wooden sign. Useful for conveying information and only occasionally snarkily.|author=Collectible Treasure description in the [[Musée Champignon]]|date=2020|title=''[[Paper Mario: The Origami King]]'' by [[Intelligent Systems]]|format=North American localization|location=Redmond|publisher=[[Nintendo of America]]}}</ref> or '''signboards''',<ref>{{cite|quote=I see...a Close Call Badge. Near the signboard located on the path from Goomba Village to Toad Town, you see a red Block. When you smash it from below, the Badge appears.|author=[[Merluvlee]]|date=2001|title=''[[Paper Mario]]'' by [[Intelligent Systems]]|format=North American localization|location=Redmond|publisher=[[Nintendo of America]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite|quote=Stand in front of certain characters and press the A Button to talk to them, or stand in front of signboards and press the A Button to read them.|author=[[Nintendo|Nintendo of Europe]]|date=2010|title=''Super Mario Galaxy 2 Instruction Booklet''|format=PDF|url=https://m1.nintendo.net/docvc/RVL/EUR/SB4P/SB4P_E.pdf|location=Großostheim|publisher=Nintendo of Europe|page=18}}</ref> are bulletins in the [[Super Mario (franchise)|''Super Mario'' franchise]] that debuted in ''[[Super Mario 64]]''. In all appearances, a sign provides information on an available action or the current level when prompted. Signs are either staked into the ground like [[Stump|post]]s or fastened to the side of walls. Staked signs have a secondary interactive element in a few games. They are comparable to [[Message Block]]s.

 

The player is rarely obligated to read signs. Rather, they are available at their discretion. In ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', there are a few boards that are [[Boards (characters)|conscious, speaking characters]] that do impose themselves onto the player character when encountered.

 

==History==

====''Super Mario 64'' / ''Super Mario 64 DS''====

[[File:SM64 Gallery Room.png|thumb|left|A sign on the second floor of the [[Peach's Castle|Mushroom Castle]].]]

Signs can be read by the player character in ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' and ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]'' by pressing {{button|n64|b}} on the Nintendo 64 Controller or {{button|ds|a}} on the Nintendo DS system, respectively. It is the same input used by the player to speak with a non-playable character. Signs compensate for the diversity of moves the developers included in the game and provide context for players who may be lost.

 

Typically, signs provide information on a move the player can perform or contextualize a potentially cryptic detail in the environment. The signs that are staked into the ground can be [[Ground Pound|ground-pounded]] by the player character, rendering it unreadable unless they exit and reenter the course. Like [[stump|stake]]s, it takes [[Mario]] three strikes to fully bury the sign. This is the case for [[Luigi]] and [[Yoshi]] in ''Super Mario 64 DS'' as well. It takes [[Wario]] only one. Signs otherwise occur pinned to walls and can only be read.

 

Only staked signs appear in ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]''. The player can read one by pressing {{button|gcn|b}}. Signs do not present tips on actions or progression, instead relaying [[mission|episode]]-specific information about the active [[level|stage]]. The details written on some signs changes depending on the active episode, such as the one in front of the [[Surf Cabana]] on [[Gelato Beach]]. Unlike ''Super Mario 64'', signs have no secondary interactive component to them. In the original Japanese release, English text is displayed on signs. It is replaced with the [[Isle Delfino#Language|original language of Isle Delfino]] in the North American localization.

 

Staked signs appear throughout ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' and are read when the player presses {{button|wii|a}}. Like prior appearances, nearly all signs are inanimate objects that the player choses to engage with. However, a few [[Boards (characters)|speaking board character]]s impose themselves in scenarios where the player character's controls are different from usual. For example, the first one, Bill Board, appears in the [[Rolling Green Galaxy]] where [[Mario]] (or [[Luigi]]) can only traverse platforms on the [[Star Ball|Rolling Ball]].

 

As in ''Super Mario Sunshine'', signs lack secondary interactive elements, though one in the [[Ghostly Galaxy]] is written in [[Boo#Language|Booish]] and can only be read if the player character is in their [[Boo Mario|Boo form]].

 

Nearly all of the signboards in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'' are presented as inanimate objects. The only character from the previous game to return is Bill Board. However, there are a few instances where simply being near a signboard causes a small dialogue box to appear above it, suggesting they are "calling out" to the player character. While their physical appearances are largely unchanged, signboards have more lines of text on the page nailed to their exterior than they did in ''Super Mario Galaxy''.

 

 

Unlike previous titles, Travel Tips are made of metal in ''Super Mario Odyssey''. Like [[Arrow Sign]]s, staked Travel Tips spin when struck by Cappy. They otherwise appear fastened to the sides of terrain.

 

 

 

====''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''====

 

Signs provide info on visited areas in ''[[Paper Mario: The Origami King]]'' and the can be read when the player presses {{button|switch|a}}. A [[List of Collectible Treasures in Paper Mario: The Origami King|Collectible Treasure]] of a sign is hidden in the [[Chestnut Valley]]. Signs inherit the design they had in ''Color Splash''.

 

 

==Gallery==

Sign Model SM64.png|''[[Super Mario 64]]''

Board SM64.png|''Super Mario 64''

SM64 Sign 1.png|''Super Mario 64''

PMTOK Collectible Treasure 35 (Sign).jpg|''Paper Mario: The Origami King'' (Collectible Treasure)

 

==Names in other languages==

|Jap={{ruby|看板|かんばん}}<ref>{{cite|author=[[Nintendo|Nintendo Co., Ltd.]]|date=1997|title=『Super Mario 64 振動パック対応バージョン {{ruby|取扱説明書|とりあつかいせつめいしょ}}』|format=PDF|url=https://m1.nintendo.net/docvc/NUS/JPN/NSMJ/NSMJ_J.pdf|language=Japanese|location=Tokyo|publisher=Nintendo Co., Ltd.|page=8}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=[[Nintendo|Nintendo Co., Ltd.]]|date=2004|title=『Super Mario 64 DS {{ruby|取扱説明書|とりあつかいせつめいしょ}}』|format=PDF|url=https://m1.nintendo.net/docvc/NTR/JPN/ASMJ/ASMJ_J.pdf|language=Japanese|location=Tokyo|publisher=Nintendo Co., Ltd.|page=11}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=[[Nintendo|Nintendo Co., Ltd.]]|date=2007|title=『Super Mario Galaxy {{ruby|取扱説明書|とりあつかいせつめいしょ}}』|format=PDF|url=https://m1.nintendo.net/docvc/RVL/JPN/RMGJ/RMGJ_J.pdf|language=Japanese|location=Tokyo|publisher=Nintendo Co., Ltd.|page=16}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=[[Nintendo|Nintendo Co., Ltd.]]|date=2010|title=『Super Mario Galaxy 2  {{ruby|取扱説明書|とりあつかいせつめいしょ}}』|format=PDF|url=https://m1.nintendo.net/docvc/RVL/JPN/SB4J/SB4J_J.pdf|language=Japanese|location=Tokyo|publisher=Nintendo Co., Ltd.|page=18}}</ref>

|JapR=Kanban

|JapM=Signboard

|Jap2=看板<ref>{{cite|author=Sakai, Kazuya (Ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors|date=2015|title=『[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック]]』|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|location=Tokyo|language=Japanese|page=105, 136, 169}}</ref>

|Jap2R=Kanban

|Fre=Affiche<ref>{{cite|author=[[Nintendo of America]]|date=2007|title=''Super Mario Galaxy Instruction Booklet''|format=PDF|url=https://csassets.nintendo.com/noaext/image/private/t_KA_PDF/Wii_Super_Mario_Galaxy?_a=BATCtdAA0|language=French|location=Redmond|publisher=Nintendo of America|page=35}}</ref>

|FreM=Poster

|Spa=Signo<ref>{{cite|author=[[Nintendo of America]]|date=2007|title=''Super Mario Galaxy Instruction Booklet''|format=PDF|url=https://csassets.nintendo.com/noaext/image/private/t_KA_PDF/Wii_Super_Mario_Galaxy?_a=BATCtdAA0|language=Spanish|location=Redmond|publisher=Nintendo of America|page=57}}</ref>

|SpaM=Sign

 

==See also==

*[[List of Toad Town News in Paper Mario|Toad Town News]]

 

==References==

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