Editing Tap-Tap the Golden

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|image=[[File:Tap-tap the golden.png|128px]]
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'' ([[List of games by date#1995|1995]])
|species=[[Tap-Tap]]
|latest_appearance=''[[Yoshi's New Island]]'' ([[List of games by date#2014|2014]])
}}
[[File:YNI Tap-Tap the Golden.png|thumb|left|''Yoshi's New Island'']]
'''Tap-Tap the Golden'''<ref name=SNES>Miller, Kent, and Terry Munson. ''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island'' Player's Guide. [[Media:SMW2 Guide 128.jpg|Page 128]]. "'''''TAP-TAP THE GOLDEN''' This mega Tap-Tap pursues Yoshi through the lava caves beneath Red Nose's Fort.''"</ref><ref name=GBA>Williams, Drew. ''Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3'' Player's Guide. Page 115. "'''''Golden Opportunity''' Tap-Tap the Golden is back to torment you. You can run only as fast as the scrolling screen allows. If you run too far to the left, you’ll fall into lava pits.''"</ref>, as its name implies, is a large golden invincible [[Tap-Tap]] found in the third door of [[King Bowser's Castle (Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island)|King Bowser's Castle]] in ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]''. The screen slowly moves through a lava-filled cave as Tap-Tap the Golden chases after [[Yoshi]]. It can be hit into the bottomless pits, but it will only come back. Knocking it onto the edge of a platform will make it teeter as it tries to maintain its balance, but knocking it off of the screen is the best option, and several [[Fang]]s are around to supply Yoshi with [[Yoshi Egg|eggs]] for repetition of this strategy. It is worth noting that Tap-Tap the Golden will actually jump over Yoshi if he gets too close, instead of attempting actual harm. While normally invincible, Tap-Tap the Golden can be defeated through hacking it into a certain type of lava.{{ref needed}}

Different golden Tap-Taps, called [[Super Big Tap-Tap]]s, appear in ''[[Yoshi's Island DS]]''. They are much larger than Tap-Tap the Golden and attack Yoshi in a manner similar to [[Big Chain Chomp|Chomp Shark]]s.

Tap-Tap the Golden reappears in ''[[Yoshi's New Island]]'' in [[Bowser's Castle Break-In]]. This time, Yoshi must throw eggs at it not merely to defend himself, but to get to [[key]]s located behind it. Instead of the large, open area full of platforms, it is found in a hall not much taller than it.
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==Profiles and statistics==
===''Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island''===
*'''Official Nintendo Player's Guide:''' ''This mega Tap-Tap pursues Yoshi through the lava caves beneath Red Nose's Fort.''<ref name=SNES/>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ビッグカチカチスペシャル<ref>「スーパーマリオヨッシーアイランド任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Super Mario: Yossy Island Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook''), [[media:Super Mario Yossy Island Shogakukan P6.jpg|page 6]].</ref><ref>「スーパーマリオアドバンス3任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Super Mario Advance 3 Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook''), [[media:Advance 3 Shogakukan P20.png|page 20]].</ref>
|JapR=Biggu Kachikachi Supesharu
|JapM=[[Tap-Tap the Red Nose|Big Tap-Tap]] Special
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==Trivia==
*In the original SNES version of the game, the music that plays when being chased by Tap-Tap the Golden is "Big Boss", whereas the GBA release uses "Room Before the Boss" instead.
*While the [[Nintendo Power|Player's Guide]] for the [[Game Boy Advance|GBA]] version implies that Tap-Tap the Golden is a resurrected [[Tap-Tap the Red Nose]],<ref name=GBA/> the Player's Guide for the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|SNES]] version suggests otherwise,<ref name=SNES/> albeit by erroneously stating that Tap-Tap the Golden is located "beneath Red Nose's Fort."

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