Pile Driver Micro-Goomba
- This article is about the Mini Goomba enemies disguised as Brick Blocks from Super Mario Bros. 3. For Wario's move from Wario World, see Piledriver.
- Not to be confused with Blockhopper.
| Pile Driver Micro-Goomba | |||
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| First appearance | Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988) | ||
| Latest appearance | Ultimate NES Remix (2014) | ||
| Variant of | Mini Goomba | ||
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Pile Driver Micro-Goombas[1] (also stylized as Pile-driver Micro-Goombas),[2] referred to as "fake bricks" by Fred Savage in the Celebrity Profiles section in the 9th issue of Nintendo Power,[3] are a special variety of Mini Goomba that hides in a Brick Block. They appear in Super Mario Bros. 3 and its reissues.
History[edit]
Super Mario Bros. 3 / Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3[edit]
Pile Driver Micro-Goombas first appear in World 2-1, the first area of Desert Land, and are a staple enemy in the various desert and sky levels throughout the rest of Super Mario Bros. 3. They are disguised as grounded bricks that can be distinguished by the fact that they do not glisten (except in Super Mario All-Stars, which gave them a light-colored outline instead, but this was changed back in Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3). When Mario or Luigi approaches its brick, the Pile Driver Micro-Goomba moves slightly to show a pair of feet underneath the brick, then jumps high in the air and attempts to land on the player character to damage him. These enemies are resistant to fireballs and can be defeated by stomping them, hitting them with a Raccoon tail, or tossing a Koopa Shell at them.
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3[edit]
Although no Pile Driver Micro-Goombas appear, a group of Pile Driver Micro-Goomba-like blocks makes one small appearance on The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 in the episode "A Toadally Magical Adventure." Although they have similar characteristics and look like Pile Driver Micro-Goombas, they are real bricks brought to life and are referred to simply as "blocks." These blocks were created by Toad's pipe creatures after they rebelled against him.
NES Remix series[edit]
In NES Remix 2 and Ultimate NES Remix, Pile Driver Micro-Goombas, simply referred to as Mini Goombas, are featured as a Super Mario Bros. 3 challenge, where the player has to defeat three of them in World 2-1 within 20 seconds.
Gallery[edit]
Super Mario Bros. 3 artwork
Super Mario Bros. 3 (World 2-1)
A Pile Driver Micro-Goomba being defeated in World 5-7 of Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Bros. 3 (hiding)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (emerged)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (jumping)
Super Mario All-Stars (Super Mario Bros. 3, World 2-1)
Naming[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The English name "Pile Driver Micro-Goomba" refers to an industrial tool of the same name that drives posts into earth and the original English name for Mini Goomba, to which it is a behavioral variant. In retrospective coverage of Super Mario Bros. 3 on Mario Portal, it is still referred to as a "Micro-Goomba" despite its relative being referred to by its contemporaneous name "Mini Goomba" in the same source. In the latter source, "Pile Driver" is also hyphenated.
The enemy is occasionally referred to as a "Micro-Goomba" as shorthand in English and a few other European localizations,[4][5] and is similarly referred to as a "Mini Goomba" in NES Remix 2 and Ultimate NES Remix. This emulates the same choice made in the Japanese release of the latter two games, in which it is referred to as「マメクリボー」(Mame Kuribō).[6]
Names in other languages[edit]
The contemporaneous name for each language is listed first. Subsequent names are listed in chronological order for each language, from oldest to newest, and have the media they are associated with in the "notes" column.
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | ブロックマメクリボー[7][8] Burokku Mame Kuribō |
Block Mini Goomba | |
| ブロックとマメクリボー[9] Burokku to Mame Kuribō |
Block and Mini Goomba | Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 | |
| French | Bloc micro-Goomba[10] | Mini-Goomba Block | |
| German | Micro-Bazillus im Block[11] | Micro Bacillus in a Block; Bazillus is uniquely applied to Goombas in Super Mario Bros. 3 | |
| Italian | Mini Goomba Blocco[12]:37 | Block Mini Goomba | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia (enemy list) |
| Blocco Mini Goomba[12]:39 | Mini Goomba Block | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia (level list) | |
| Blocco Mini-Goomba[12]:43 | Mini-Goomba Block | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia (trivia section) | |
| Spanish | Minigoomba Bloque[13] | Block Minigoomba |
References[edit]
- ^ June 1990. Nintendo Power Volume 13. Nintendo of America (English). Page 8.
- ^ English Super Mario Bros. 3 entry on the official Mario Portal. nintendo.co.jp. Retrieved August 13, 2022. (Archived August 13, 2022, 14:26:17 UTC via archive.today.)
- ^ November–December 1989. Nintendo Power Volume 9. Nintendo of America (English). Page 91.
- ^ Lindberg, Gunnar, and Lena Persson, editors (1991). "Super Mario Bros. 3 Del 2" in Nintendo-Magasinet, no. 8. Translated by Laila Takolander. Atlantic Förlags AB (Swedish). Page 12.
- ^ Saarva, Petteri, Mikael Ekroos, Kieku Salo, and Markus Selin, editors (1991). "Super Mario Bros. 3 - 2. osa" in Power Player, no. 8. Translated by Laila Takolander. Semic (Finnish). Page 12. Supplemental for Nintendo-lehti, no. 8.
- ^ 「時間内にマメクリボーを3匹たおそう！」("Defeat 3 Bean Goombas within the time limit!") – description for Stage 2-3 (2014). NES Remix 2 by Nintendo EAD Tokyo. Nintendo (Japanese).
- ^ Kiire, Kyoko (Shogakukan), Koichi Watanabe, Hiroaki Nagata, Masatoshi Watanabe, Haruko Ueki (Supersonic), and Toru Mori, editors (1994). 『パーフェクト
版 マリオキャラクター大事典 』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-259067-9. Page 212. Retrieved from Imgur. Note that this is only listed in a block of text in the "Mame Kuribō" section. - ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2015). "Super Mario Bros. 3" in『スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 978-4-09-106569-8. Page 37.
- ^ 2003. 『スーパーマリオアドバンス4パーフェクトガイドブック』. Tokyo: Enterbrain (Japanese). ISBN 978-4757715882. Page XX. Retrieved from SAKURA (sakura.ne.jp).[page number needed]
- ^ Ardaillon, Joanna, and Victoria Juillard-Huberty, editors (2018). "Super Mario Bros. 3" in Super Mario Encyclopedia. Translated by Fabien Nabhan. Toulon: Soleil Productions (French). ISBN 978-2-3020-7004-2. Page 37.
- ^ Matsumoto, Atsuko, Rie Ishii, and Claude Moyse, editors (1992). Der Spieleberater Super Mario Power. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). ISBN 3-929034-02-6. Page 14.
- ^ a b c Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2018). "Super Mario Bros. 3" in Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Translated by Marco Amerighi. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2017). "Super Mario Bros. 3" in Enciclopedia Super Mario Bros. 30ª Aniversario. Translated by Gemma Tarrés. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, S.A. (Spanish). ISBN 978-84-9146-223-1. Page 37.
