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 aball. 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.
Mario Pinball Land
ProtagonistsMarioPrincess PeachToad
BossesPetey PiranhaPorcupufferKing TutBig BooBowser
Items1-UP MushroomBlue CoinCoinInvincibility StarLightningMega MushroomMini MushroomPipeQuestion markRed CoinStarStar KeyYoshi Egg
Objects! Block! Switch? BlockBeehiveBill BlasterBoss statueCactusCannonDoorEgg Mark (Bonus Tower) •Enchanted obeliskFlipperFloor panelJarPyramidSky CannonToad's tentTrapdoorTreasure chestWooden door
LocationsThe Fun Fair (Haunted House) •Grassy Greens Stage (windmill) •Frosty Frontier Stage (shipwreck) •Shifting Sands Stage (pyramid) •Fiery Stage (Bowser's castle)
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