MarioWiki:Glossary

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• 1-Up – Same as an Extra Life.
• 1-Up Mushroom – A green mushroom that awards an Extra Life.

B

• Big Eight – a conjectural term that groups the major characters of the Marioverse: Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser, Wario, Donkey Kong, Yoshi and Toad.
• Blocks – Blocks can contain coins or even power-ups in the case of ? Blocks. They usually need to be jumped from underneath to reveal the goods.

C

• Coin – the form of money in the Mushroom Kingdom.

E

• Extended Marioverse – items that are one branch from the Marioverse. Includes series such as Donkey Kong and WarioWare.
• Extra Life – Sometimes in the form of a green mushroom or other special object, Extra Lives add back one life to the user's total, negating the loss of a life.

F

• Filler Character – a conjectural term used for characters that were created to fill a void. I.e. Waluigi is the opposite to Luigi as Mario is to Wario.
• Flower – common plant seen in many mario games, often as an item.

G

• Game Over – what happens when all Lives are lost.

L

• Life – In platformer games, there are a certain amount of lives that the player has. He or she can lose them by being hit by enemies too much or even gain them by finding extra lives. If the player loses all of his or her lives, a Game Over ensues.

M

• Mushroom – common food in the Mushroom Kingdom, often a basic item.
• Mushroom Kingdom – The area where most Mario games take place.

P

• Player – the person that's actually playing the game and using the controller.

S

• Shroobified – in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, anything altered or changed by the Shroobs is Shroobified.
• Star – powerful object in the Marioverse, often as an item used for invincibility. some Stars are even Artifacts.

V

• Vaporware – a term for games that did start development but never were published.

W

• Warp Pipe – the form of transportation in the Mushroom Kingdom. Simply entering the pipe at one end takes the user to the other end.