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Coins (sometimes known as Golden Coins) are coins that are found commonly throughout the Mushroom Kingdom. Aside from being the apparent currency of the Mushroom Kingdom, they provide many uses for Mario. In the 3D console titles: Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy, they are used to replenish Mario's health. In Super Mario Galaxy 2, it is impossible to obtain more than 9,999 of these coins. In various games, some are found in lines or groups on the floor while others are found after defeating enemies, opening boxes, or other events.
In the Paper Mario series of RPGs, coins are actually saved up and used for purchasing items, particularly badges. In Mario Party, coins are gained through winning mini games and are used to purchase stars. They first appeared in Mario Bros, in 1983.
Prizes
Coins are frequently counted up at the end of the level in a number of games, contributing as high scores or some sort of bonus. Particularly in the platforming games, gathering one hundred coins will score Mario an extra life. In Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine, gathering one hundred coins will earn Mario an extra star or shine sprite.
Other Types of Coins
- Dragon Coins are coins that are usually found five in each level in Super Mario World. Obtaining all five in a level results in a 1-Up.
- Star Coins are coins that are found in New Super Mario Bros. (three per level). Five of these coins will unlock a mushroom house or an alternate stage and 20 will allow the player to buy a new skin from the blue mushroom house. In New Super Mario Bros. Wii they are used to unlock hint videos. In the later game, if all the Star Coins in a world are collected, a new level in World 9 is unlocked. In New Super Mario Bros. 2 they have the same function as in New Super Mario Bros.
- Red Coins are red-colored coins found in several games that are found in collections of 8 and a reward is received when all eight are found.
- Blue Coins are blue-colored coins, that in Super Mario 64, are worth 5 golden coins when found. In Super Mario Sunshine, 10 blue coins can be used to buy a Shine Sprite at the boat house.
- Purple Coins are purple-colored coins in Super Mario Galaxy and in Super Mario Galaxy 2. They appear in the Purple Comet challenges. Collecting 100 will cause a Power Star to appear.
- Question Coins are coins that appear in both Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2. They release a series of coins that disappear after a specific amount of time. They sometimes appear near Lumas, where the coins release separate waves of coins. They can also release music notes.
- Regional Coins are purple-colored regional coins that appear in Super Mario Odyssey. They can only be used in their respective kingdom's Crazy Cap store.
New Super Mario Bros. 2
In this game, coins are emphasized. The coins are much more abundant than in other games. The game has a coin counter, which increases even when dying after collecting the coins (as opposed of completing a level). This counter is common to all save files and game modes. One of the goals of the game, besides completing the game itself, is to raise that counter to one million. When playing a level, there is another coin counter which counts the coins collected in that level since the player last entered the level (including after dying in the level). Each level shows the biggest amount of coins collected in the level in a row (which is the biggest value shown in the previous counter, when finishing the level), like in Super Mario 64. There is also the Coin Rush mode, where the player tries to collect the most coins in three levels without dying.
Mario Kart series
Alongside the kart system of lives, Super Mario Kart had a kind of coin system of health. Coins were scattered on the ground and could be driven over like Question Blocks to be collected. If a player collected 10 or more coins, they could go faster. If a player bumped into another racer, got hit by an item, or fell off the track, they would lose anywhere from one to four coins. Having no coins meant that any contact with any other racer would result in a spin-out. The Coin item simply gave the user an additional 2 coins.
In Mario Kart: Super Circuit, coins are given roughly the same level of importance and behave roughly the same way. There are two major differences. The first is that the amount of coins collected is used to calculate rankings in Grand Prix mode. The second is that 10 coins is no longer the max for speed increases; with enough coins, a racer can drive faster than a Red Shell.
Coins didn't appear in Mario Kart 64 or Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. Mario Kart DS featured missions that required collecting coins, such as Yoshi collecting eighteen coins on Tart Top. Mario Kart Wii, along with a new Battle Mode called Coin Runners (similar to Shine Runners and Shine Thief), has featured many online tournaments revolving around coin collecting.
Coins reappeared in the Grand Prixes of Mario Kart 7, Mario Kart 8, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Collecting them results in a minor speed boost. Getting hit by items like the red shell makes the player drop one to three coins to the track (other racers could then collect those), depending on the number of coins that the player had at the time. If the player falls off the track, Lakitu takes one to three coins from the player. The player can't have more than 10 coins. The game tracks the number of coins collected and rewards the player with new parts for customizing karts after collecting certain amounts of coins. The Coin Runners Battle Mode also returned with a time limit of two minutes.
Mario Party series
Coins are a big part of the Mario series. In the Mario Party series, they are used to buy Items, as well as Boo's "service" and the important Stars. Coins are easily obtained, and the player even receives a free 10 coins at the beginning of a game. Coins are obtained by stepping on blue space, winning mini-games and special events. In Mario Party, total Coins are saved, and are used at a shop to buy game affecting items and mini-games. In Mario Party 2, they are used in the same way, but the game affecting items are no longer used. Coins are used as bonuses at the end of a board as the player who won the most coins in Mini-Games and the player who held the highest amount of coins in the game will receive a Star for their accomplishment. However, in Mario Party 9, the use of coins is completely scrapped in favor of Mini Stars. Mini Stars and Coins reappear in Mario Party 10.
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Price Variations
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Item/Event | Price Variation | Game | |||
Stars | 20 coins | All | |||
Boo's Service | 5 coins (steal coins) and 50 coins (steal star) | Mario Party - Mario Party 4 | |||
Items | 1-30 coins | Mario Party 2 and onwards | |||
Chain Chomp's Service | Free (steal coins) and 30 coins (steal star) | Mario Party 5 | |||
Character Spaces | +5 coins (15 coins in the last five turns) | Mario Party 6 and Mario Party 7 | |||
Matching Dice Blocks | +10-50 coins | All | |||
Mini-game Victory | +10 coins (may vary depending on the mini-game) | All | |||
Blue and Red spaces | +3 coins (blue) and -3 coins (red)(+/- 9 for last five turns respectively.) | All | |||
Orb Bonus | +1-10 coins | Mario Party 6 and Mario Party 7 | |||
Start Of Game | automatic +10 coins | All | |||
Big Boo's Service | 15 coins (steal coins from all players) and 150 coins (steal stars from all players) | Mario Party 2 and Mario Party 4 |
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Characters | Protagonists | Mario • Luigi • Princess Peach • Rosalina • Bowser • Luma • Polari • Toad Brigade (Banktoad · Blue Toad · Mailtoad · Toad Brigade Captain · Yellow Toad) |
Antagonists | Bowser • Bowser Jr. | |
Supporting | Coach • Cosmic Luigi • Cosmic Mario • Guppy • Lumacomète • Lumalee • Penguru • Queen Bee • Ray • Spooky Speedster | |
Species | Species | Big Green Caterpillar • Board • Butterfly • Cataquack • Gearmo • Honeybee • Hungry Luma • Luma • Ocean Small Turtle • Penguin • Star Bunny • Toad |
Enemies | Enemies | Amp • Astro Goomba • Ball Beamer • Banzai Bill • Bat • Big Amp • Bolt Beam • Bonefin • Black Hole • Blooper • Bob-omb • Bomb Boo • Boo • Brrr Bit • Burn Bit • Bullet Bill • Burner • Cataquack • Cheep Cheep • Chomp Pup • Chomp • Clam • Cluckboom • Crab • Dry Bones • Electricity Shooter • Electrogoomba • Eye Beamer • Fire Arm • Fire Shooter • Flipbug • Goomba • Grand Goomba • Gringill • Ground Urchin • Ice Bat • Jammyfish • Jump Guarder • Koopa Troopa • Lava Bouncer • Lava Plume • Li'l Springy • Magikoopa • Mandibug • Mecha Bowser • Mini Topman • Mobile Sentry Beam • Monty • Octopus • Piranha Plant • Pokey • Pokey Head • Ring Beam • Pink Electrogoomba • Preying Mantas • Prickly Plant • Puffer Fish • Pumpkinhead Goomba • Purple Piranha Plant • Red Pokey • Ring Beamer • Sentry Beam • Sliding Stone • Spangler • Spiky Topman • Spoing • Spring Robot • Spring Topman • Starbag • Swoopin' Poink • Thwomp • Torpedo Ted • Tox Box • Tweester • Undergrunt • Urchin • Water Shooter • Wiggler |
Obstacles | Obstacles | Banzai Bill Cannon • Bill Blaster • Black Hole • Boulder • Bramble • Burner • Cannon • Cannonball • Dark Matter • Electric rail • Eye Beamer • Fire Arm • Fire Shooter • Fireball • Floating Mine • Giant Prickly Plant • Gravity field • Honey • Icy Water • Lava • Lava Plume • Meteor • Mud • Poisoned Water • Prickly Plant • Quicksand • Skull Box • Spike • Steam Jet • Water Shooter • Whirlpool |
Bosses | Bosses | Dino Piranha • King Kaliente • Mandibug Stack • Bugaboom • Megaleg • Kamella • Tarantox • Topmaniac • Bouldergeist • Major Burrows • Baron Brrr • Undergrunt Gunner • Heavy Metal Mecha-Bowser • Kingfin • Fiery Dino Piranha • Bowser Jr. • Bowser |
Galaxies | Gate | Gateway Galaxy • Boo's Boneyard Galaxy |
Terrace | Good Egg Galaxy • Honeyhive Galaxy • Loopdeeloop Galaxy • Flipswitch Galaxy • Sweet Sweet Galaxy • Bowser Jr.'s Robot Reactor | |
Fountain | Space Junk Galaxy • Battlerock Galaxy • Rolling Green Galaxy • Hurry-Scurry Galaxy • Sling Pod Galaxy • Bowser's Star Reactor | |
Kitchen | Beach Bowl Galaxy • Ghostly Galaxy • Bubble Breeze Galaxy • Buoy Base Galaxy • Drip Drop Galaxy • Bowser Jr.'s Airship Armada | |
Bedroom | Gusty Garden Galaxy • Freezeflame Galaxy • Dusty Dune Galaxy • Honeyclimb Galaxy • Bigmouth Galaxy • Bowser's Dark Matter Plant | |
Engine Room | Gold Leaf Galaxy • Sea Slide Galaxy • Toy Time Galaxy • Bonefin Galaxy • Sand Spiral Galaxy • Bowser Jr.'s Lava Reactor | |
Garden | Deep Dark Galaxy • Dreadnought Galaxy • Melty Molten Galaxy • Matter Splatter Galaxy • Snow Cap Galaxy | |
Comet Observatory | Bowser's Galaxy Reactor | |
Planet of Trials | Rolling Gizmo Galaxy • Bubble Blast Galaxy • Loopdeeswoop Galaxy • Grand Finale Galaxy | |
Items | Items | 1-Up Mushroom • ? Coin • Bee Mushroom • Boo Mushroom • Coin • Fire Flower • Grand Star • Green Power Star • Ice Flower • Life Mushroom • Note • Power Star • Purple Coin • Rainbow Star • Red Power Star • Red Star • Silver Star • Spring Mushroom • Star Bit • Star Chip |
Objects | Objects | ? Block • Airship • Arrow Sign • Arrow Switch • Assembly Block • Banandelion • Beacon • Blue switch • Bob-omb Dispenser • Bolt (object) • Bolt (platform) • Bowser Statue • Brick Block • Bubble • Bubbler • Cannon • Cloud • Coconut • Coin Block • Conveyor Belt • Crate • Empty Block • Flip Tile • Flipswitch Panel • Floaty Fluff • Flower (platform) • Flowerbed • Gold Shell • Gold Treasure Box • Gravity spotlight • Green Shell • Ground-Pound Switch • Honey wall • Honeycomb • Item Crystal • Key Door • Launch Star • Leaf pile • Lever Switch • Lift • Matter • Nail • Ocean Small Turtle • Pole • Portrait • Pull Star • Ring (Rolling Ball) • Ring (underwater) • Rock spire • Rolling Ball • Semisolid Platform • Shock Wave Generator • Shrinking platform • Sliding block • Sling Pod • Sling Star • Snowman • Springboard • Sproutle Vine • Stalagmite • Star Piece Cluster • Starshroom • Stone block • Stone circle • Stone Wheel • Stretch Plant • Swing • Tiny lamp • Torch • Tornado • Trash • Treasure chest • UFO • Valve • Vine • Warp Pad • Warp Pipe • Watermelon • Water spout |
Moves | Moves | Backward Somersault • Co-Star Super Jump • Crawl • Crouch • Dash • Double kick • Double Jump • Ground Pound • Long Jump • Jump • Side Somersault • Star Spin • Swim • Triple Jump • Wall Jump |
Missions | Gateway Galaxy | Grand Star Rescue • Gateway's Purple Coins |
Boo's Boneyard Galaxy | Racing the Spooky Speedster | |
Good Egg Galaxy | Dino Piranha • A Snack of Cosmic Proportions • King Kaliente's Battle Fleet • Dino Piranha Speed Run* • Purple Coin Omelet* • Luigi on the Roof | |
Honeyhive Galaxy | Bee Mario/Luigi Takes Flight • Trouble on the Tower • Big Bad Bugaboom • Honeyhive Cosmic Mario/Luigi Race* • The Honeyhive's Purple Coins* • Luigi in the Honeyhive Kingdom | |
Loopdeeloop Galaxy | Surfing 101 | |
Flipswitch Galaxy | Painting the Planet Yellow | |
Bowser Jr.'s Robot Reactor | Megaleg's Moon | |
Sweet Sweet Galaxy | Rocky Road | |
Space Junk Galaxy | Pull Star Path • Kamella's Airship Attack • Tarantox's Tangled Web • Pull Star Path Speed Run* • Purple Coin Spacewalk* • Yoshi's Unexpected Appearance | |
Rolling Green Galaxy | Rolling in the Clouds | |
Battlerock Galaxy | Battlerock Barrage • Breaking into the Battlerock • Topmaniac and the Topman Tribe • Topmaniac's Daredevil Run* • Purple Coins on the Battlerock* • Battlerock's Garbage Dump • Luigi under the Saucer | |
Hurry-Scurry Galaxy | Shrinking Satellite | |
Bowser's Star Reactor | The Fiery Stronghold | |
Sling Pod Galaxy | A Very Sticky Situation | |
Beach Bowl Galaxy | Sunken Treasure • Passing the Swim Test • The Secret Undersea Cavern • Fast Foes on the Cyclone Stone* • Beachcombing for Purple Coins* • Wall Jumping up Waterfalls | |
Bubble Breeze Galaxy | Through the Poison Swamp | |
Ghostly Galaxy | Luigi and the Haunted Mansion • A Very Spooky Sprint • Beware of Bouldergeist • Bouldergeist's Daredevil Run* • Purple Coins in the Bone Pen* • Matter Splatter Mansion | |
Buoy Base Galaxy | The Floating Fortress • The Secret of Buoy Base | |
Bowser Jr.'s Airship Armada | Sinking the Airships | |
Drip Drop Galaxy | Giant Eel Outbreak | |
Gusty Garden Galaxy | Bunnies in the Wind • The Dirty Tricks of Major Burrows • Gusty Garden's Gravity Scramble • Major Burrows's Daredevil Run* • Purple Coins on the Puzzle Cube* • The Golden Chomp | |
Freezeflame Galaxy | The Frozen Peak of Baron Brrr • Freezeflame's Blistering Core • Hot and Cold Collide • Frosty Cosmic Mario/Luigi Race* •Purple Coins on the Summit* • Conquering the Summit | |
Dusty Dune Galaxy | Soaring on the Desert Winds • Blasting through the Sand • Sunbaked Sand Castle • Sandblast Speed Run* • Purple Coins in the Desert* • Bullet Bill on Your Back • Treasure of the Pyramid | |
Honeyclimb Galaxy | Scaling the Sticky Wall | |
Bowser's Dark Matter Plant | Darkness on the Horizon | |
Bigmouth Galaxy | Bigmouth's Gold Bait | |
Gold Leaf Galaxy | Star Bunnies on the Hunt • Cataquack to the Skies • When It Rains, It Pours • Cosmic Mario/Luigi Forest Race* • Purple Coins in the Woods* • The Bell on the Big Tree | |
Sea Slide Galaxy | Going after Guppy • Faster Than a Speeding Penguin • The Silver Stars of Sea Slide • Underwater Cosmic Mario/Luigi Race* • Purple Coins by the Seaside* • Hurry, He's Hungry | |
Toy Time Galaxy | Heavy Metal Mecha-Bowser • Mario/Luigi Meets Mario • Bouncing Down Cake Lane • Fast Foes of Toy Time* • Luigi's Purple Coins* • The Flipswitch Chain | |
Bonefin Galaxy | Kingfin's Fearsome Waters | |
Bowser Jr.'s Lava Reactor | King Kaliente's Spicy Return | |
Sand Spiral Galaxy | Choosing a Favorite Snack | |
Deep Dark Galaxy | The Underground Ghost Ship • Bubble Blastoff • Guppy and the Underground Lake • Ghost Ship Daredevil Run* • Plunder the Purple Coins* • Boo in a Box | |
Dreadnought Galaxy | Infiltrating the Dreadnought • Dreadnought's Colossal Cannons • Revenge of the Topman Tribe • Topman Tribe Speed Run* • Battlestation's Purple Coins* • Dreadnought's Garbage Dump | |
Matter Splatter Galaxy | Watch Your Step | |
Melty Molten Galaxy | The Sinking Lava Spire • Through the Meteor Storm • Fiery Dino Piranha • Lava Spire Daredevil Run* • Red-Hot Purple Coins* • Burning Tide | |
Snow Cap Galaxy | Star Bunnies in the Snow | |
Rolling Gizmo Galaxy | Gizmos, Gears, and Gadgets | |
Loopdeeswoop Galaxy | The Galaxy's Greatest Wave | |
Bubble Blast Galaxy | The Electric Labyrinth | |
Grand Finale Galaxy | The Star Festival | |
Bowser's Galaxy Reactor | The Fate of the Universe | |
Mini-games | Mini-games | Bob-omb Blasting • Bubble Blowing • Ray surfing • Star Ball Rolling |
Other | Other | Comet Observatory • Starbit Festival • Star Pointer • Super Mario 3D All-Stars |
Missions marked with an asterisk (*) are only available while a Prankster Comet is in orbit. |
Characters | ||
Mario (Superball Mario) • Princess Daisy | ||
Locations | ||
Birabuto Kingdom • Muda Kingdom • Easton Kingdom • Chai Kingdom • Sarasaland | ||
Levels | ||
World 1-1 • World 1-2 • World 1-3 • World 2-1 • World 2-2 • World 2-3 • World 3-1 • World 3-2 • World 3-3 • World 4-1 • World 4-2 • World 4-3 | ||
Enemies | ||
Batadon • Bombshell Koopa • Bullet Biff • Bunbun • Chicken • Chikako • Fly • Ganchan • Gao • Gunion • Goombo • Honen . Kumo • Mekabon • Nyololin • Pionpi • Piranha Plant • Pompon Flower • Roketon • Roto-disc • Suu • Tokotoko • Torion • Yurarin • Yurarin Boo | ||
Bosses | ||
King Totomesu • Dragonzamasu • Tamao • Hiyoihoi • Biokinton • Tatanga | ||
Items and Objects | ||
Mushroom • Superball Flower • Superball • Starman • 1-Up Heart • Coin • Mystery Block • Marine Pop • Sky Pop • Pagosu |