Countdown Platform
- This article is about the platform first seen in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. For the platform from Super Mario World also known as a Countdown Platform, see Count-Lift.
Countdown Platforms are semisolid blocks that appear in the Yoshi's Island series, specifically Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3, Yoshi's Island DS, Yoshi's New Island, and Yoshi's Woolly World. They appear as a balance with a number labeled on them, with the number shown decreases by one every time something moves on them. When the number decreases to where zero would be, the entire platform instead vanishes in a puff of smoke. They typically range from a highest display of four to a lowest of one, but in Yoshi's Woolly World, some go as high as nine. These platforms do not countdown if the player has Yoshi still on them; they only decrease if Yoshi steps off or jumps off them. In most games, Countdown Platforms can only be activated by Yoshi; every other object passes through them. However, in Yoshi's Woolly World, shells can also trigger these platforms.
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Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Yoshi's Island DS
Yoshi's New Island
Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | カウントゆか Kaunto Yuka すうじのついたブロック Sūji no Tsuita Burokku |
Count Floor Numbered Block (Yoshi's New Island Message Block) |
| Dutch | Platformen geven |
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| French | Plateforme compte à rebours |
Countdown platform |
| German | Zähler-Plattform |
Counter platform |
| Italian | Piattaforma a conteggio |
Count platform |
| Portuguese | Plataforma com contador |
Platform with counter |
| Russian | Платформ со счетчиком Platform so schetchikom |
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| Spanish | Plataforma concordant |
Counter platform |
