Editing Roulette Block

{{Item-infobox
|description=A glass, yellow or blue block that has constant changing items inside it.
|image=[[File:Roulette Block SM3DL.png|200px]]
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario World]]'' ([[List of Mario games by date#1990|1990]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Mario Party: Island Tour]]'' ([[List of Mario games by date#2013|2013]])
|effect=Releases the item shown on it when hit.}}

'''Roulette Blocks'''<ref>''Mario Mania'' Nintendo Player's Guide. Page 46.</ref>  are types of blocks first found in ''[[Super Mario World]]''. They are blocks that contain items that scroll in a roulette. The item the block displays while the block is hit is usually the item that comes out.

==History==
===''Super Mario'' series===
====''Super Mario World''====
In ''[[Super Mario World]]'', a [[Super Mushroom]], [[Fire Flower]], [[Cape Feather]] and [[Star]] can come out of a Roulette Block. However, once [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]] releases the item out of the block, it bounces around like a Star, and it still changes from power-up to power-up. [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]] can grab the power-up at the right time to obtain that power-up's effects.

====''Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3''====
A Roulette Block also appears in the ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' [[Game Boy Advance]] remake, ''[[Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3]]''. It only appears in the level "[[Piped Full of Plants]]". It's very similar to the ''[[Super Mario World]]'' ones, replacing the [[Cape Feather]] by a [[Super Leaf]]. In addition, once the player releases the item out, it won't change anymore.

====''New Super Mario Bros.''====
Roulette Blocks reappear in ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'', but with a few differences. They are blue instead of transparent, the items scroll much faster, and they do not continue scrolling once they pop out - Mario must hit the block at the right time to make that item pop out. The possible items found in these Roulette Blocks are Super Mushrooms, Fire Flowers, Stars, [[Mini Mushroom]]s or [[Blue Shell]]s. Also, red [[Toad House]]s contain giant Roulette Blocks (that contain the same items as the ones mentioned, besides the Star) which Mario can use to hold an item in reserve.

====''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''====
The Roulette Blocks from ''New Super Mario Bros.'' also appear in the sequel, ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]''. The blocks are yellow this time, and they contain items such as a Super Mushroom, [[1-Up Mushroom]], Star, [[Propeller Mushroom]], or [[Penguin Suit]].

====''Super Mario 3D Land''====
The next appearance of Roulette Blocks is in ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'', as transparent glass blocks, like in ''Super Mario World''. A winged Roulette Block can be found in some levels.

====''New Super Mario Bros. 2''====
These blocks return in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. 2]]'', with the same design as in ''Super Mario 3D Land''. In addition to the normal ones, yellow numbered Roulette Blocks also appear, which produce [[coin]]s instead of power-ups. When Mario hits the block, coins will pop out in the amount shown on the block as it was hit, either in single coins or [[10 Gold Coin]]s. The numbers that appear are 5, 10, 30 and 50, with 50 appearing only once per interval. In the [[Rainbow World]], 50s are more often in the coin Roulette Blocks, including the larger one with a maximum number of 100 coins, instead of 50, and do not have a 5 or 30 in it.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h51--hKGaQ</ref>.

====''New Super Mario Bros. U''====
Roulette Blocks also appear in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]'' with the same functions as before, though now it has the same design as that of ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]''. Roulette Blocks now have the possibility of generating a [[Super Acorn]], an item introduced in the game.

====''Super Mario 3D World''====
Roulette Blocks reappear in ''[[Super Mario 3D World]]'' with the same function as ''Super Mario 3D Land''. They now have the possibility of generating a [[Super Bell]], an item newly introduced in the game. Roulette Blocks also appear in the jackpot machines, though the player gets no item if they hit it. Instead, there are four big ones and the player has to match the image on all of them to earn Coins and 1-Ups.

===''Super Mario World'' television series===
A Roulette Block appeared in the [[Super Mario World (television series)|''Super Mario World'' television series]] in the episode "[[King Scoopa Koopa]]". After [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]] spots the Roulette Block and suggests that Mario should hit it, he hit the block and obtained a Cape Feather.

===''Mario Party''===
====''Mario Party 9''====
These blocks reappear in ''[[Mario Party 9]]'' in the [[Sock It to Lakitu]] minigame. Here the items are a [[Bullet Bill]], two Bullet Bills, three Bullet Bills and a [[Spiny Egg]]. The Bullet Bills damage [[Lakitu]] while the Spiny Egg may damage the player.

====''Mario Party: Island Tour''====
Roulette Blocks reappear in ''[[Mario Party: Island Tour]]'' and generate items.
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==Gallery==
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File:SMW Rouletteblock.gif|''Super Mario World''
File:NSMB Rouletteblock.gif|''New Super Mario Bros.''
File:NSMB Toadhouse rouletteblock.gif|''New Super Mario Bros.'' (Mushroom House version)
File:NSMBW Rouletteblock.gif|''New Super Mario Bros. Wii''
File:Roulette Block SM3DL.png|''Super Mario 3D Land''
File:50goldenblock.png|The coin Roulette Block from ''New Super Mario Bros. 2''
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==Names in other languages==
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|SpaM=Roulette Block}}

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