Super Scope

Super Scope
First appearance	Yoshi's Safari (1993)
Latest appearance	Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018)

The Super Scope as an item in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

The Super Scope, known as the Nintendo Scope in European languages, is a light gun peripheral for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It fires an infrared beam that is picked up by a sensor placed on top of the television, and where on the screen it is aiming is determined by the sensor after calibrating the scope by shooting a test target screen. Various games utilized this hardware; the only Super Mario game to utilize it was Yoshi's Safari, where it was also seen and used by Mario in-game.

The Super Scope is frequently depicted as a type of gun in-game. Aside from its heavy use in Yoshi's Safari, Super Scopes also make a cameo as used by Sniper Bills in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga and its remake. The peripheral can be seen in the WarioWare: Touched! microgame Gunslinger. In Volume 8 of Super Mario-kun, Mario uses a Super Scope (sent by Princess Peach) to defeat the Kurokyura.

The Super Scope is featured as an item in the Super Smash Bros. series starting with Super Smash Bros. Melee, allowing players to fire energy balls at their opponents, either in dozens of small bullets or several large charged-up shots (three in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl and five in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate). When a player repeatedly shoots small blasts in a line, the opponent is unable to move away when hit, but the player also cannot move while firing; starting with Super Smash Bros. Brawl, though, the player can walk and jump while firing the item.

The Devolution Gun used to cause de-evolution in the Super Mario Bros. film is a modified Super Scope.

List of Super Mario appearances

Title	Description	Release date	System/format
Yoshi's Safari	Item	1993	Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga	Object	2003	Game Boy Advance
WarioWare: Touched!	Cameo in microgame	2005	Nintendo DS
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions	Object	2017	Nintendo 3DS

Profiles

Super Smash Bros. Melee

• Trophy
  • Super Scope
  • Super Scope
    9/92
  • A peripheral device for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Super Scope is a wireless weapon that shoots infrared light to a receiver placed on top of the television. In Super Smash Bros. Melee, it can be fired rapidly or charged up to release a more powerful blast. It only has enough energy for 3 charge shots.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

• Trophy
  • Super Scope
  • SNES Super Scope 6
  • A bazooka-shaped peripheral for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that was used wirelessly with an infrared sensor placed on top of the television. In Smash Bros., it can be fired rapidly or charged up. In Super Smash Bros. Melee, you could not move while shooting it, but in this game, you can move and jump while blasting!

Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U

A trophy of a Super Scope in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS (left) / Wii U (right)

• Trophy
  • Super Scope
  • Appears in:
    • SNES Super Scope 6 (02/1992)
  • Descriptions:
    • American English: This wireless weapon from the SNES era can be used kind of like a bazooka in battle. Press the attack button rapidly to spray shots, or hold it down to charge up a powerful blast. The weapon's ammo won't last forever, so try not to get caught without juice left in your batteries.
    • British English: This wireless peripheral for the SNES can be used as a kind of bazooka in this game. And it comes with two different firing modes! Press the attack button repeatedly or hold it down to try them out! However, depending on how you use it, the batteries might run out pretty quick. And if they do, the fun's over. That's it!

Gallery

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  The logo, found on the side of the Super Scope

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  Mario holding the Super Scope, while Yoshi is standing next to him

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  Volume 8 of Super Mario-kun

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  Sniper Bill from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

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  Sniper Bill from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions

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  Super Smash Bros. Brawl artwork

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  Super Smash Bros. for Wii U screenshot

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  Japanese box art and "Super Scope 6"

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  Photo of the "Zapper & Scope SP" exhibit at the Nintendo Museum

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	スーパースコープ[?] Sūpā Sukōpu	Super Scope
German	Nintendo Scope[?]	-
Italian	Nintendo Scope[?]	-
Korean	슈퍼 스코프[?] Syupeo Seukopeu	Super Scope
Russian	Прицел Nintendo[?] Pritsel Nintendo	Nintendo Scope
Spanish (NOA)	Super Scope[?]	-
Spanish (NOE)	Nintendo Scope[?]	-