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Encyclopedia > Warp pipe
Screenshot of warp pipes in the hidden World 9 (Warp Zone) in the SNES All-Star version of Super Mario Bros. 3
Screenshot of warp pipes in the hidden World 9 (Warp Zone) in the SNES All-Star version of Super Mario Bros. 3

Warp pipes are pipes, usually green, that can be found throughout the Mushroom Kingdom in the Mario series of video games. Their existence is linked to the fact that Mario and Luigi are plumbers, though it is unknown whether the warp pipes' existence or the Marios' occupation was first. WarpZone in the SNES version of Super Mario Bros. ... Super Mario Bros. ... The Mushroom Kingdom (Japanese:キノコ王国) is a fictional setting in the Super Mario Bros. ... Mario is the current Good Article Collaboration of the week! Please help to improve this article to the highest of standards. ... Computer and video games A screenshot of Tetris for the Nintendo Game Boy A console game (better known as a video game) is a form of interactive multimedia used for entertainment, which consists of a moveable image displayed on a screen that is usually controlled and manipulated using a handheld... Luigis current appearance. ...


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Pipes were featured in Mario Bros., where they were situated two on each side of the screen, and they sprouted enemies for Mario and Luigi to dispatch, and coins for them to pick up. If an enemy entered a pipe at the bottom of the screen, it would pop back out of a corresponding pipe at the top of the screen. These pipes are similar to the warp pipes featured in later games, although Mario and Luigi could not use them. Mario Bros. ... A coin is usually a piece of hard material, generally metal and usually in the shape of a disc, which is issued by a government to be used as a form of money. ...


Warp pipes appeared in Super Mario Bros. dispersed throughout levels. Many served no function or only held piranha plants, but certain warp pipes allowed Mario to enter bonus "coin rooms", underwater sections, or shortcuts (in warp zones). They were replaced in Super Mario Bros. 2 with vases, which acted similarly: the character would shrink and enter the vase, and such areas were usually similar to places Mario might reach with warp pipes in the preceding game. The original Warp pipe design reappeared in Super Mario Bros. 3. In fact, the seventh 'world' of levels in the game featured a warp pipe motif, and was consequently a jungle of warp pipes. Super Mario World introduced the different colored (non-green) warp pipes. It is also a furniture decoration of the Mario series in Animal Crossing. Super Mario Bros. ... A Piranha Plant (Japanese: Pakkunflower) is a Venus fly trap-like enemy in Nintendos Super Mario video games. ... Categories: Computer and video game stubs | Computer game design ... This article is about the version of Super Mario Bros. ... Super Mario Bros. ... Mario is the current Good Article Collaboration of the week! Please help to improve this article to the highest of standards. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...


Warp pipes also appear in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Super Mario 64, Super smash brothers 64 and the Mario Party and Paper Mario series. They also appeared in Super Mario RPG instead of typical RPG stairwells. Warp pipes also appeared in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! as giant pipes that players could drive through and also made some appearances in Super Mario Sunshine. More recent Mario games didn't feature many warp pipes, and some dedicated Mario fans are hoping for the return of warp zones, pipe plazas, and so on, in future games. The recent DS game New Super Mario Bros. also featured warp pipes, in a similar way to the older Super Mario Bros. games. Super Mario 64 is a video game for the Nintendo 64. ... This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia entry. ... Paper Mario, known in Japan as Mario Story ), is a role-playing video game for the Nintendo 64. ... 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... This article is about traditional role-playing games. ... Mario Kart: Double Dash!! is a video game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube video game console. ... Super Mario Sunshine is a 3D platformer console title in the Mario series. ... The Nintendo DS (sometimes abbreviated NDS or DS) is a handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo, released in 2004. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...


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Warp pipe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (437 words)
Warp pipes are pipes, usually green, that can be found throughout the Mushroom Kingdom in the Mario series of video games.
Their existence is linked to the fact that Mario and Luigi are plumbers, though it is unknown whether the warp pipes' existence or the Marios' occupation was first.
Pipes were featured in Mario Bros., where they were situated two on each side of the screen, and they sprouted enemies for Mario and Luigi to dispatch, and coins for them to pick up.
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