Countdown Platform
- Not to be confused with Count-Lift or Dropdown Countdown Lift.
Countdown Platform | |
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First appearance | Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (1995) |
Latest appearance | Poochy & Yoshi's Woolly World (2017) |
- “Countdown Platforms can only be stepped on so many times. Watch that number!”
- —Message Block, Yoshi's New Island
Countdown Platforms are floating semisolid platforms that appear in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (and its reissue), Yoshi's Island DS, Yoshi's New Island, and Yoshi's Woolly World. They resemble scales with a number labeled on each, this number decreasing by one every time something moves off them. Because of this, the counter does not go down when the player has a Yoshi stand on them; it decreases only when the Yoshi steps off or jumps off them. If the weight on the scale is removed when the counter is at one, the platform vanishes in a puff of smoke. Countdown Platforms typically range from a highest display of four to a lowest of one, but in Yoshi's Woolly World, some go as high as nine. In most games, Countdown Platforms can be activated only by a Yoshi, and every other object passes through them. However, in Yoshi's Woolly World, shells can also trigger these platforms.
Dropdown Countdown Lifts from Super Mario Bros. Wonder function very similarly to Countdown Platforms, both being semisolid platforms that count down how many times the player can step on them. However, the counter on a Dropdown Countdown Lift decreases when stepped on, rather than when stepped off.
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Names in other languages
Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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Japanese | カウントゆか[?] Kaunto Yuka |
Count Floor | |
すうじのついたブロック[?] Sūji no Tsuita Burokku |
Numbered Block (Yoshi's New Island Message Block) | ||
Dutch | Platformen geven[?] | - | |
French | Plateforme compte à rebours[?] | Countdown platform | |
German | Zähler-Plattform[?] | Counter platform | |
Italian | Piattaforma a conteggio[?] | Count platform | |
Portuguese | Plataforma com contador[?] | Platform with counter | |
Russian | Платформ со счетчиком[?] Platform so schetchikom |
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Spanish | Plataforma concordant[?] | Counter platform |