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[[File:SMB3RotatingCannon-NESandSMAS.png|thumb|left|A quartet-cannon on the ceiling in ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' (both NES and ''All-Stars'')]]
[[File:SMB3RotatingCannon-NESandSMAS.png|thumb|left|A quartet-cannon on the ceiling in ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' (both NES and ''[[Super Mario All-Stars|All-Stars]]'')]]
'''Quartet-cannons'''<ref>Hodgson, David S J. ''Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3'' Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Page 32. "'''''FIRE FLOWER FLOUNDER''' Carefully leap over the Bullet Bill mounting, then quickly hit the "?" block for the Fire Flower (jump for it, even though a quartet-cannon hangs above and right of you). Remember that you can land on any cannon balls and knock them away.''"</ref> (or '''cannon quartets''')<ref>Hodgson, David S J. ''Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3'' Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Page 73. "'''''CANNON AND BALL''' Run between the cannon shots, and when you reach the rotating cannon quartet, wait for it to fire, drop into the square hole below, and run before it fires again, leaping on top of a cannon to the right, and up and over the wooden pole.''"</ref> are quadruple-barreled [[cannon]]s that fire [[cannonball]]s in multiple directions at once, then rotate clockwise at a 45° angle before firing again. They are usually found hanging from a fixture on the ceiling.
'''Quartet-cannons'''<ref>Hodgson, David S J. ''Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3'' Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Page 32. "'''''FIRE FLOWER FLOUNDER''' Carefully leap over the Bullet Bill mounting, then quickly hit the "?" block for the Fire Flower (jump for it, even though a quartet-cannon hangs above and right of you). Remember that you can land on any cannon balls and knock them away.''"</ref> (or '''cannon quartets''')<ref>Hodgson, David S J. ''Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3'' Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Page 73. "'''''CANNON AND BALL''' Run between the cannon shots, and when you reach the rotating cannon quartet, wait for it to fire, drop into the square hole below, and run before it fires again, leaping on top of a cannon to the right, and up and over the wooden pole.''"</ref> are quadruple-barreled [[cannon]]s that fire [[cannonball]]s in multiple directions at once, then rotate clockwise at a 45° angle before firing again. They are usually found hanging from a fixture on the ceiling.



Revision as of 17:45, April 16, 2024

Quartet-cannon
Quartet-cannon sprite
First appearance Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988)
Latest appearance New Super Mario Bros. Wii (2024)
Variant of Cannon
Quartet-cannons, in World 1-Airship
A quartet-cannon on the ceiling in Super Mario Bros. 3 (both NES and All-Stars)

Quartet-cannons[1] (or cannon quartets)[2] are quadruple-barreled cannons that fire cannonballs in multiple directions at once, then rotate clockwise at a 45° angle before firing again. They are usually found hanging from a fixture on the ceiling.

In Super Mario Bros. 3, quartet-cannons appear in World 1-Airship and World 5-Airship. In Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3's World-e, they also appear in Armored Airship, Koopaling Confusion, and Bowser's Airship 1. In this game, they cannot be interacted with, and only two opposite barrels out of the four are active.

In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, quartet-cannons appear in World 8-Airship. In addition to hanging overhead, some are now found grounded on the floor. Consequently, their behavior has been tweaked; they are now solid objects, and they fire two diagonal cannonballs at a time when ordinal and three straight cannonballs when cardinal. One of the grounded quartet-cannons is a giant rotating cannon pipe[3] that fires giant cannonballs out of three cannons, with one cannon actually being a pipe that does not fire and that player characters must enter.

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Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese 回転砲台[4]
Kaiten hōdai
Spin artillery; shared with rotating cannon
Italian Cannone Girevole[5] Spinning Cannon
Rotating cannon pipe
Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese 土管つき回転砲台[6]
Dokan-tsuki kaiten hōdai
Spin artillery with pipe
Italian Cannone Tubo Girevole[7] Spinning Pipe Cannon

References

  1. ^ Hodgson, David S J. Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Page 32. "FIRE FLOWER FLOUNDER Carefully leap over the Bullet Bill mounting, then quickly hit the "?" block for the Fire Flower (jump for it, even though a quartet-cannon hangs above and right of you). Remember that you can land on any cannon balls and knock them away."
  2. ^ Hodgson, David S J. Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 Prima's Official Strategy Guide. Page 73. "CANNON AND BALL Run between the cannon shots, and when you reach the rotating cannon quartet, wait for it to fire, drop into the square hole below, and run before it fires again, leaping on top of a cannon to the right, and up and over the wooden pole."
  3. ^ Dark Horse Books. Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia: The Official Guide to the First 30 Years. Page 151.[better source needed]
  4. ^ Shogakukan. 2015. Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook, pages 41 and 149.
  5. ^ Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia, pag. 149
  6. ^ Shogakukan. 2015. Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook, New Super Mario Bros. Wii section, page 150.
  7. ^ Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia, pag. 150