This Chain Chomp, from Super Mario Brothers 3, is lunging at Mario, who is safely out of range

The Chain Chomp is a video game character from Nintendo's Mario series of games. It is a black, spherical being, dog-like in personality, usually tethered to a block by a chain. It has sharp teeth and is constantly gnawing at the air and straining its chain, as if eager to "chomp" on any passers-by. Under unusual circumstances, it can come loose — for example, in Super Mario Bros. 3, when the in-game timer for the level hits 160 seconds. Normally they are invincible, but in some games Chain Chomps are beneficial. Chain Chomp, cropped from screenshot of Super Mario Bros. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... Nintendo (Japanese: 任天堂; TSE: NTDOY) was originally founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards, for use in a Japanese playing card game of the same name. ... For over 20 years, Mario has been the official video game mascot for Nintendo. ... Black is a color with several subtle differences in meaning. ... A sphere is, roughly speaking, a ball-shaped object. ... Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris (Linnaeus, 1758) The Dog is a canine carnivorous mammal that has been domesticated for at least 14,000 years and perhaps for as long as 150,000 years based on recent evidence. ... Look up Chain in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A chain can be any of the following: a flexible connection through multiple rigid links; applications include: pulling (it cannot be used for pushing) power transmission, as in roller chains (e. ... Types of teeth Molars are used for grinding up foods Carnassials are used for slicing food. ... Super Mario Bros. ... In computer and video games, a level (sometimes called a stage, course, map or landscape) is a separate area in a games virtual world, in modern games typically representing a specific location such as a building or a city. ... The second (symbol s) is a unit for time, and one of seven SI base units. ...

Appearances

Chain Chomps made their first appearance in level 2-5 of Super Mario Bros. 3 for the NES/Famicom, along with their cousins, the bounding Fire Chomps. They have since appeared in many Mario games. In Super Mario RPG for the SNES, Bowser uses a Chain Chomp for a weapon and several enemies are versions of Chain Chomps. They also appear in level 5-4 of Yoshi's Island for the SNES. In Super Mario 64, they acquired their distinctive bark, which was also used in all subsequent games, save Paper Mario, where Chain Chomps were unleashed by Tutankoopa and made no distinctive sound, much like many of the other characters in the game. In Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, the Chain Chomp is a useable item for Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, Petey Piranha, and King Boo that pulls the racers forward for a few seconds and bowls over other racers in its path. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door contains two types of Chain Chomps: Red Chomps, which appear in Glitzville and the Pit of 100 Trials, and original Chain Chomps, appearing in the Palace of Shadow.In Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga, two Chain Chomp enemies appear.In one battle in Woohoo Hooniversity, Mecha-Chomps, dog-like mechanical Chomps, appear.Chomp Bros., a variation of the Hammer Bros. that swings a Chomp, appear in Bowser's Castle. Chain Chomps have also made appearances in the Mario Party series. Nes is: A municipality in the county of Akershus in Norway, see Nes, Akershus. ... The Nintendo Entertainment System (U.S., Europe, and Australia) NES redirects here. ... A large bonfire Fire is a form of combustion. ... Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (スーパーマリオRPG) was the last Mario game made and released for the Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and was the last Square-produced game for a Nintendo video game console until 2003, with the debut of Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles for the... The European SNES design is identical to the Super Famicom. ... Super Mario World 2: Yoshis Island, most commonly referred to as Yoshis Island, is a Super Famicom/Super Nintendo game released in Japan on September 4, 1995. ... Super Mario 64 was one of the first video games released for the Nintendo 64 and was the consoles flagship killer game. ... Paper Mario, known in Japan as Mario Story (マリオストーリー), is a video game that was developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 and first released in 2000. ... In Paper Mario, Tutankoopa was the Boss of Chapter 2, Bowsers minion to guard Mamar the 2nd Star Spirit, and the ruler of the Dry Dry Ruins. ... Mario Kart: Double Dash!! is a video game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube video game console. ... Baby Mario is a character in Nintendos Mario series, often alongside Baby Luigi. ... Baby Luigi is a character in Nintendos Mario series, similar to Baby Mario. ... Petey Piranha is a fictional character in the Super Mario series, first appearing as the boss of Bianco Hill in Super Mario Sunshine, sitting on the top of the windmill, holding a Shine Sprite. ... King Boo is an enemy in the Mario series of games. ... Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is the sequel to the Nintendo 64 video game Paper Mario, and is the fourth in the series of Mario role-playing game titles that includes Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario, and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. ... The Mario Party series is a video game series for the Nintendo 64, GameCube and Game Boy Advance where up to four total characters (humans + the computer) compete in a type of board game with a series of minigames interspersed. ...

Chain Chomps made a cameo in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening as two pets in Mabe village, and in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past as monsters that the player had to avoid. Since its first use in 1851, a cameo role or cameo appearance has been a brief uncredited appearance in a play (or later, a movie or a video/computer game). ... The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, released in Japan on November 21, 1991, as ゼルダの伝説 神々のトライフォース (Zeruda no Densetsu: Kamigami no Toraifōsu, literally The Legend of Zelda: Triforce of the Gods), and in North America and Europe in 1992, was the only game in the Zelda series...

Trivia

• The Chain Chomp was inspired by a childhood experience of Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto wherein a dog tried to attack him. The dog lunged at him, but was jerked back by its leash just as the canine snapped at Miyamoto inches in front of his face.