Clock hand

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Clock hand
Model of a Clock hand from Super Mario 64.
Model from Super Mario 64
First appearance Super Mario 64 (1996)
Latest appearance Super Mario 3D All-Stars (2020)

Clock hands[1] (originally known as minute hands)[2] appear as platforms in Super Mario 64 and Super Mario 64 DS and as obstacles in the Mario Kart series.

History[edit]

Super Mario 64 / Super Mario 64 DS[edit]

Two minute hands appear in Tick Tock Clock as long platforms, with one being a short distance up from the start and the other being at the top. They rotate in incremental intervals around a pivot point at the center of the course. The speed they move are affected by how the player character enters Tick Tock Clock's face; if the minute hand on the face is near "12" when the player character enters, they do not move at all. The minute hands are respectively featured in the missions "Get a Hand" and "Stomp on the Thwomp", in which the player character is intended to ride a minute hand to access the area containing the respective Power Star, though other methods to reach the Stars also exist in both cases.

Mario Kart series[edit]

Clock hands are featured in the Mario Kart DS course Tick-Tock Clock. A clock face near the start features two of them moving in opposite directions, and another one near the end has a single clock hand. If a racer drives into a clock hand, they get spun out.

Clock hands return alongside the course in Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, but they now spin very slowly and are shorter than they were in the original; they can also be driven across and used as trick ramps instead of spinning out any racers that touch them.

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Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Note(s) Ref.
Japanese 時計の針
Tokei no Hari
Clock Hand [3]
Italian Lancetta Clock hand [4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Musa, Alexander (2014). Mario Kart 8: PRIMA Official Game Guide. Roseville: Prima Games. ISBN 978-0-804-16328-6. Page 216.
  2. ^ Pelland, Scott, and Dan Owsen (1996). The Super Mario 64 Player's Guide. Redmond: Nintendo of America. Page 115.
  3. ^ Motomiya, Shusuke (1-Up), Yasuhiro Nemoto, Hideki Endo, Yuta Naoi, and Noriko Tsuyuki, editors (1996). 『スーパーマリオ64完全クリアガイド』. Tokyo: Media Factory. ISBN 4-88991-411-0. Page 99.
  4. ^ Roberto Ferri (May 1999). Official Nintendo Magazine issue 7. Milan: Xenia Edizione S. r. L. (Italian). Page 88.