Pinballer

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Pinballer from Mario Pinball Land
A Toad using the Pinballer

ThePinballer[1] is a blue-and-yellow machine that can transform a character into a ball form inMario Pinball Land. The machine has two yellow halves of a sphere that squeeze a character into a ball. It also has a gray platform that can extend upwards to move the character. The Pinballer appears during the opening cutscene, after the player starts the game, and after they lose a life. After aToad gets transformed into a ball and shot out of theSky Cannon,Peach gets transformed into a ball and enters the cannon as well, but she gets blasted toBowser's castle by twoGoombas.Mario then enters the machine in order to save her.

Gallery[edit]

  • Mario dazed on top of the Pinballer

    Mario dazed on top of the Pinballer

Names in other languages[edit]

LanguageNameMeaningNotes
FrenchBouleur[2]Fromboule ("ball") and the French suffix-eur
GermanFlipper-former[3]Pinball-shaper
ItalianAppallottolatore[4]Fromappallottolare ("roll into a ball") and the Italian suffix-ore

References[edit]

  1. ^2004.Mario Pinball Land instruction booklet.Nintendo of America (English). Page 7.
  2. ^2004.Super Mario Ball instruction booklet.Nintendo of Europe (French). Page 45.
  3. ^2004.Super Mario Ball instruction booklet.Nintendo of Europe (German). Page 25.
  4. ^2004.Super Mario Ball instruction booklet.Nintendo of Europe (Italian). Page 105.
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