Shifting wall

Shifting wall
	; Screencap from New Super Mario Bros.
First appearance	Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988)
Latest appearance	Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition (2024)
Related
	Hard Block; Spike Trap
Comparable
	Bomp; Push-Block; Sand tide; Slide Lift

Shifting walls,^[1] also called crushing pillars^[2] and moving blocks,^[3] are hazardous obstacles in the Super Mario series, appearing mainly in towers and castles, going back and forth on a specific axis (either vertical or horizontal). If they manage to squash Mario onto another surface, they may cause him to lose a life.

History

Super Mario Bros. 3 / Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3

Shifting walls debuted in Super Mario Bros. 3 in the second room of World 1-Fortress, where spikes are attached to the ceiling and are lowered to squash and impale Mario, unless he ducks in a designated place. Alongside the ceiling, the door to the boss also moves and lowers into the ground. Later, in World 2-Fortress, in the second room, many wooden blocks with spikes on the lower and upper surface appear as obstacles that move with the door.

Super Mario World / Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2

Spikeless shifting walls appear in Super Mario World, textured like the walls of the castle. In #2 Morton's Castle, in the penultimate room, shifting walls stick out from the walls and both create a passage to the upper part of the room and serve as obstacles that can crush Mario in certain places. Towards the end of the room, some of them even have spikes, in case he falls in narrow holes. These type of shifting walls also appear in the sixth room of Bowser's Castle. In #3 Lemmy's Castle, the third room is a long lava-filled hall with shifting floor and ceilings that can either squash Mario or create platforms to help him cross the lava. In #4 Ludwig's Castle, a lowering spiked ceiling is the main obstacle of the penultimate room and can be stopped and pulled back to the top with an ON/OFF Switch. In the Lil Sparkies and the Hotheads room in #6 Wendy's Castle and the fourth room of Bowser's Castle, small, light-gray, squared shifting walls appear along the regular shifting walls as small platforms to cross the pits.

New Super Mario Bros.

Shifting walls reappear as obstacles in New Super Mario Bros. in towers and castle levels, still used as squashing obstacles and platforms/stairways. Both smooth and spiked variants appears. They have a light-gray stone texture.

Appearances

World 1-Tower
World 1-Castle
World 4-Tower
World 6-Castle
World 7-Tower
World 8-Tower

Super Mario Galaxy

Crushing pillars in the Dreadnought Galaxy.

Crushing pillars appears with a mechanical design in Super Mario Galaxy, in the inner sections of the Battlerock Galaxy and Dreadnought Galaxy.

Appearances

marks missions where crushing pillars are completely absent.

Domes	Galaxies	Missions
Fountain	Battlerock Galaxy
Garden	Dreadnought Galaxy

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, shifting walls have the same function as in previous titles, but now have a brown, smoothed texture. In World 5-Tower, pairs of spiked shifting walls (textured like a normal wall) move in parallel left and right, narrowing the safe space on the screen.

Appearances

World 1-Tower
World 5-Tower
World 6-Tower
World 7-Tower
World 8-Tower

New Super Mario Bros. 2

In New Super Mario Bros. 2, shifting walls returns with the same design from the previous title. In World 1-Castle, however, vertical shifting walls are designed like castle pillars, with variable length and they can have spikes on either the upper or lower surface. In World 2-Ghost House, during the Boohemoth section, there are purple-checkered solid platforms that move both vertically or horizontally, or swing like a seesaw.

Appearances

World 1-Castle
World 2-Tower
World 2-Ghost House
World 3-Tower

New Super Mario Bros. U / New Super Luigi U / New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe

In New Super Mario Bros. U and New Super Luigi U, moving blocks appear with a reworked brown design in Layer-Cake Desert-Castle and looking like the castle's walls in Soda Jungle-Castle. In Stonecrush Tower, stones nailed together appear as the moving blocks.

Appearances

New Super Mario Bros. U	New Super Luigi U
Morton's Compactor Castle Iggy's Volcanic Castle	Morton's Lava-Block Castle Iggy's Swinging-Chains Castle Stonecrush Tower

Gallery

A shifting spiked ceiling in Super Mario Bros. 3
Sprite of a shifting wall from #6 Wendy's Castle and room 4 of Bowser's Castle in Super Mario World
The room in #2 Morton's Castle with shifting walls in Super Mario World
Sprites of shifting walls with spikes in New Super Mario Bros.
A section with a passage with spiked and smooth shifting walls in New Super Mario Bros.
Mario approaching a crushing pillar in Super Mario Galaxy
Shifting walls in New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Shifting spiked walls in New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Mario dangling over some shifting pillars in New Super Mario Bros. 2
Shifting spiked walls in New Super Mario Bros. 2
Mario standing on a purple shifting wall in New Super Mario Bros. 2
Mario surrounded by shifting walls in New Super Mario Bros. U
Shifting walls in New Super Luigi U

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	動く壁^[4]^:118 Ugoku Kabe	Moving Wall
Japanese	動く床^[4]^:215 Ugoku Yuka	Moving Floor	New Super Mario Bros. U
Italian	Muro che si muove in orizzontale^[5]^:57	Horizontal moving wall	Super Mario World
	Piattaforma mobile^[5]^:116	Moving platform	New Super Mario Bros.
	Parete mobile^[5]^:116-18	Moving wall
	Parete mobile spinosa^[5]^:117	Spiked moving wall
	Parete piena di spuntoni che si muove lateralmente^[5]^:148	Spiked wall that moves sideways	New Super Mario Bros. Wii
	Piattaforma [che] si muove lateralmente^[5]^:212	Platform that moves sideways	New Super Mario Bros. U
	Piattaforma che sale e scende^[5]^:213	Platform that goes up and down	New Super Mario Bros. U

References

^ Bueno, Fernando (2009). New Super Mario Bros. Wii: PRIMA Official Game Guide. Roseville: Prima Games (American English). ISBN 978-0-3074-6767-6. Page 159.
^ Black, Fletcher (2007). Super Mario Galaxy: PRIMA Official Game Guide (Collector's Edition). Roseville: Prima Games. ISBN 978-0-7615-5713-5. Page 111.
^ Stratton, Steve (2012). New Super Mario Bros. U: PRIMA Official Game Guide. Roseville: Prima Games. ISBN 978-0-307-89690-2. Page 72, 73.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2015). 『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.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2018). Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Translated by Marco Amerighi. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X.

[1] Bueno, Fernando (2009). New Super Mario Bros. Wii: PRIMA Official Game Guide. Roseville: Prima Games (American English). ISBN 978-0-3074-6767-6. Page 159.

[2] Black, Fletcher (2007). Super Mario Galaxy: PRIMA Official Game Guide (Collector's Edition). Roseville: Prima Games. ISBN 978-0-7615-5713-5. Page 111.

[3] Stratton, Steve (2012). New Super Mario Bros. U: PRIMA Official Game Guide. Roseville: Prima Games. ISBN 978-0-307-89690-2. Page 72, 73.

[sakai-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2015). 『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.

[amerighi-5] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2018). Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Translated by Marco Amerighi. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X.

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Forms		Small Mario • Super Mario • Fire Mario • Propeller Mario • Ice Mario • Penguin Mario • Mini Mario • Invincible Mario
Non-playable characters		Yoshi • Yellow Yoshi • Light Blue Yoshi • Pink Yoshi • Princess Peach • Toads • Jumbo Rays
Enemies		Amp • Banzai Bill • Big Boo • Big Chain Chomp • Big Dry Bones • Big Fuzzy • Big Thwomp • Big Urchin • Big Wiggler • Blooper • Blooper Baby • Blooper Nanny • Bob-omb • Boo • Boomerang Bro • Bramball • Broozer • Bulber • Bull's-Eye Banzai • Bullet Bill • Chain Chomp • Cheep Cheep • Cheep-Chomp • Clampy • Climbing Koopa • Cooligan • Crowber • Deep-Cheep • Dry Bones • Eep Cheep • Fire Bro • Fire Snake • Flame Chomp • Foo • Fuzzy • Giant Goomba • Goomba • Huckit Crab • Hammer Bro • Heavy Para-Beetle • Hefty Goomba • Ice Bro • Jellybeam • King Bill • Koopa Paratroopa • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Lava Bubble • Mechakoopa • Mega Cheep-Cheep • Mega Deep-Cheep • Mini Goomba • Missile Bill • Monty Mole • Muncher • Para-Beetle • Parabomb • Paragoomba • Piranha Flower • Piranha Plant • Pokey • Porcupuffer • Prickly Goomba • River Piranha Plant • Rocky Wrench • Scaredy Rat • Sledge Bro • Spike • Spike Top • Spiny • Spiny Cheep Cheep • Spiny Egg • Stalking Piranha Plant • Stone Spike • Super Piranha Plant • Swoop • Thwomp • Urchin • Venus Fire Trap • Wet Bones • Wiggler
Obstacles		Ash • Ball 'n' Chain • Banzai Bill Cannon • Bill Blaster • Bill Blaster Turret • Bowser's Fireball • Burner • Cannon • Cannonball • Electrical field • Fire • Fire Bar • Ghost Block • Ghost Vase • Giant cannon • Giant cannonball • Giant Spiked Ball • Huge Icicle • Ice • Icicle • Junior Clown Car • Lava • Lava Geyser • Lava swell • Lava tide • Moving torch • Pit • Poisonous swamp • Quartet-cannon • Quicksand • Sandstorm • Shifting wall • Skewer • Spell • Spike Ball • Spikes • Volcanic debris • Volcano
Bosses	The Koopalings	Larry • Roy • Lemmy • Wendy • Iggy • Morton • Ludwig
Bosses	Other bosses	Bowser Jr. • Magikoopa • Bowser • Super Bowser
Items and power-ups		1-Up Mushroom • Barrel • Blue Coin • Buzzy Shell • Coin • Fire Flower • Fruit • Glow Block • Hidden Coin • Ice block • Ice Flower • Key • Koopa Shell • Mini Mushroom • Penguin Suit • POW Block • Propeller Block • Propeller Mushroom • Red Coin • Springboard • Star • Star Coin • Super Mushroom • Toad balloon • Yoshi's Egg
Objects		! Switch • ? Block • ? Switch • 10-Coin Block • Anchor • Arrow lift • Bolt Lift • Bone lift • Bouncing ball • Bouncy Cloud • Brick Block • Bridge • Bubble-jet pipe • Ceiling • Cliff • Cloud • Cog • Conveyor Belt • Crate • Door • Dotted-Line Block • False wall • Fence • Fence wheel • Flag (midway point) • Flip panel • Floating barrel • Floating Block • Flower • Flying ? Block • Gray Block • Half-circle rock • Hanging chain • Hanging vine • Ice Block • Ice platform • Ice Snake Block • Ice Wall • Invisible Block • Iron Block • Jump Block • Large ! Switch • Large shell • Lift • Light Block • Limited Lift • Mushroom Platform • P Switch • Paddle Platform • Palm tree • Pendulum Platform • Pipe • Pipe Cannon • Pole • Pole (goal) • Pole (secret goal) • Raft • Rail Block • Red Ring • Remote-Control Platform • Remote-Controlled Clown Car • Remote-Controlled Elevator • Remote-Controlled Fence • Remote-Controlled Lift • Rocky wall • Rolling log • Rope • Rope ladder • Rotating square • Roulette Block • Sand Geyser • Scale Lift • Screw • Screwtop Lift • Screwtop Shroom • Semisolid Platform • Small pipe • Spine Coaster • Stretch Block • Stretch Shroom • Square cloud • Super Guide Block • Swing • Swinging Hammer • Tilt Lift • Tilting platform • Treasure chest • Trick door • Turning Floor • Unstable mushroom • Vine • Water • Water Ball • Water tide • Yellow ledge
Locations	Worlds	World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6 • World 7 • World 8 • World 9 • World Coin
Locations	Other	Peach's Castle • Toad Houses
Moves		Crouch • Dash • Double Jump • Drill Spin • Flutter Jump • Ground Pound • Jump • Midair Spin • Propeller Jump • Shell Toss • Simultaneous Ground Pound • Slide • Spin Jump • Stomp • Swallow • Swim • Triple Jump • Wall Jump
Gameplay elements		1-up Blast • Coin Battle • Enemy Course • Extra life • Fortress • Ghost House • Hint movies • Paah • Power-up Panels • Score • Secret exit • Time Limit • Warp Cannon
Music compositions		"Castle Theme" • "Desert Theme" • "Ghost House BGM" • "Jungle Theme" • "Underwater Theme"
Further info		Gallery • Glitches • Mario Coinage • Multimedia • New Super Mario Bros. Mii • New Super Mario Bros. Wii: Simplified Piano Solos • Pre-release and unused content • Staff • Trading cards

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Playable characters		Mario • Luigi • Yellow Toad • Blue Toad • Mii • Nabbit^c • Toadette^e
Forms		Small Mario • Super Mario • Flying Squirrel Mario • Fire Mario • Ice Mario • Mini Mario • Propeller Mario • Penguin Mario • Invincible Mario • Power Squirrel Mario • Peachette^e
Yoshis		Yoshi • Balloon Baby Yoshi • Bubble Baby Yoshi • Glowing Baby Yoshi
Non-playable characters		Princess Peach • Toads
Enemies		Amp^a • Banzai Bill • Big Amp^a • Big Boo • Big Buzzy Beetle^a • Big Cheep Cheep • Big Deep Cheep^b • Big Dry Bones • Big Eep Cheep^b • Big Fire Piranha^b • Big Fuzzy • Big Goomba^a • Big Koopa Troopa^a • Big Piranha Plant • Big Pokey • Big Thwomp • Big Urchin • Big Wiggler • Blooper • Blooper Baby^a • Blooper Nanny^a • Bob-omb • Bony Beetle • Boo • Boomerang Bro • Bramball • Broozer • Bulber^a • Bullet Bill • Buzzy Beetle • Chain Chomp • Cheep Cheep • Cheep Chomp • Clampy^a • Cooligan • Deep Cheep^b • Dragoneel • Dry Bones • Eep Cheep • Fire Bro • Fire Piranha Plant • Fire Snake • Fish Bone • Flame Chomp • Fliprus • Foo • Fuzzy • Goomba • Goombrat • Grrrol • Hammer Bro • Heavy Para-Beetle • Hefty Goomba • Huckit Crab • Ice Bro • Ice Piranha Plant • Jellybeam^a • King Bill • Koopa Paratroopa • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Lava Bubble • Magmaargh • Magmaw • Mecha Cheep^a • Mechakoopa • Mega Grrrol • Mini Goomba • Missile Bill • Monty Mole • Muncher • Para-Beetle • Parabomb • Paragoomba^a • Piranha Plant • Piranha Pod • Pokey • Porcupuffer • Prickly Goomba • River Piranha Plant • Rocky Wrench^a • Scaredy Rat^a • Sledge Bro • Spike • Spike Top • Spiny • Spiny Cheep Cheep • Spiny Egg • Stalking Piranha Plant • Stone Spike • Sumo Bro • Swoop^a • Targeting Ted • Thwimp^a • Thwomp • Torpedo Ted • Urchin • Waddlewing • Wiggler
Obstacles		Ash • Banzai Bill Cannon • Bill Blaster • Bill Blaster Turret • Bob-omb Cannon^b • Bowser Stunner • Bowser's Flame • Burner • Cannon^a • Cannonball^a • Current • Fire Bar • Ghost Block • Giant cannon • Giant cannonball • Huge Fire Bar • Huge Icicle • Ice • Icicle • Junior Clown Car • Lava • Lava Geyser • Lava swell • Lava tide • Mecha Hand • Moving block • Moving torch • Pit • Poison Bog • Quicksand • Skewer • Spell • Spike Ball • Spikes • Spinner • Torpedo Base • Torpedo tube^a
Bosses	Tower bosses	Boom Boom • Boss Sumo Bro • Magikoopa
	The Koopalings	Lemmy • Morton • Larry • Wendy • Iggy • Roy • Ludwig
	Other bosses	Bowser Jr. • Magikoopa • Bowser • Giant Bowser
Items and power-ups		1-Up Mushroom • 3-Up Moon • Barrel • Blue Coin • Boost Star • Buzzy Shell • Coin • Fire Flower • Fruit • Green Coin • Hidden Coin • Ice block • Ice Flower • Koopa Shell • Mini Mushroom • P-Acorn • Penguin Suit • POW Block • Propeller Mushroom • Red Coin • Star Coin • Super Acorn • Super Crown^e • Super Mushroom • Super Star • Trampoline • Yoshi's Egg
Objects		! Switch • ? Block • ? Switch • 3-Up Moon Block^d • 10-Coin Block • Airship • Arrow lift • Bean Platform • Beanstalk • Big Block • Blue Ring^b • Bone bridge • Boost Block^d • Boss cannon • Bouncy Cloud • Brick Block • Bridge • Checkpoint Flag^a • Clockwork Block • Cloud Lift • Cog • Conveyor Belt • Cracked block • Crate • Cross Lift • Donut Block • Door • Empty Block • False wall • Floor • Flower • Flying ? Block • Giant Shell • Goal Pole • Goal Pole (secret) • Goal ring • Green Ring • Hanging chain • Hanging vine • Hidden Block • Ice Chunk • Ice platform • Iron Block • Jet Pipe • Leaf Platform • Lift • Light-Up-Lift • Limited Lift • Limited Lift (Remote-Control) • Luigi Block^b • Magical platform • Mega ? Block • Mist • Moving Fence • Mushroom Platform • Note Block • Nut • P Switch • Paddle Platform^a • Palm tree • Pendulum Platform • Pole • Pipe • Pipe Cannon • Red Ring • Remote-Control Platform • Rocking Platform • Rocky wall • Rolling log • Rope ladder • Roulette Block • Sand Geyser • Scale Lift • Screwtop • Screwtop Lift • Screwtop Platform • Screwtop Shroom • Seesaw Log Bridge • Seesaw Shroom • Seesaw Shroom (blue)^b • Semisolid Platform • Slide Lift • Small pipe • Snake Block • Spine Coaster • Star Lift • Start Block • Stone block • Stone-Eye • Stretch Block • Stretch Shroom • Super Guide Block^a • Swinging Hammer • Switch-Lift^b • Tilting mushroom^a • Track Block • Treasure chest • Trick door • Turning Floor • Water • Water Ball • Water Geyser • Water tide • Wobble Rock
Locations	Worlds	Acorn Plains • Layer-Cake Desert • Sparkling Waters • Frosted Glacier • Soda Jungle • Rock-Candy Mines • Meringue Clouds • Peach's Castle • Superstar Road
Locations	Other	Mushroom Kingdom • Secret Island • Coin Courses^a • Toad Houses
Moves		Crouch • Dash • Double Jump • Drill Spin • Floaty Jump^e • Flutter Jump • Ground Pound • Jump • Midair Jump^e • Midair Spin • Propeller Jump • Scuttle^b • Shell Toss • Simultaneous Ground Pound • Slide • Spin Jump • Stomp • Swallow • Swim • Triple Jump • Wall Jump
Gameplay elements		Boost Mode • Boost Rush^a • Challenge Mode^a • Coin Battle^a • Enemy Course • Extra life • Luigi sightings^b • Paah • Point • Secret exit • Time Limit • Tower
Music compositions		"Ground Theme"
Further info		Gallery (Luigi · Deluxe) • Glitches • Multimedia • New Super Mario Bros. Mii • New Super Mario Bros. U + New Super Luigi U • Pre-release and unused content • Staff (Luigi · Deluxe)
^a Exclusive to the New Super Mario Bros. U campaign ^b Exclusive to the New Super Luigi U campaign ^c Present in both campaigns, but has different roles in each ^d Only in the Wii U release ^e Only in the Nintendo Switch release