Square (platform)

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Square
Model of a square from Super Mario 64.
First appearance Super Mario 64 (1996)
Latest appearance Super Mario 3D All-Stars (2020)
“These square sections may circle each other like dance partners, but their purpose is to dump Mario into the void.”
—Super Mario 64 Player's Guide, page 42
Mario in Bowser in the Dark World
Mario standing on a square

The squares[1] are objects in Super Mario 64 and Super Mario 64 DS . They are three pairs of platforms located in Bowser in the Dark World. One pair is found at the beginning of the level, while two more pairs are at a much higher elevation later in the level. Each of the pairs moves in a counterclockwise cycle around a larger square rim; one of the level's Red Coins is located on the edge of the rim of the first pair at the higher elevation, requiring Mario to use the squares to reach it. The platforms themselves have a steel blue color in Super Mario 64, while they are gray in Super Mario 64 DS. Despite their name, they are actually octahedrons due to being composed of eight slanted triangles.

References[edit ]

  1. ^ "You'll begin on the platform beside the moving squares." – Pelland, Scott and Dan Owsen (1996). The Super Mario 64 Player's Guide. Redmond: Nintendo of America (American English). Page 43.
Platforms
Solid platforms Accordion-like platform • Automated elevator • Ball on chains • Balloon Elevator • Beach Ball • Bike Pads • Boat (Delfino Plaza) • Bocci Ball • Bone • Bone bridge • Bucket (Yoshi series) • Cactus • Cactus box • Clock hand • Cascading Stone • Clockwork Block • Cog • Conveyor Belt • Coral • Cosmic block • Crumble Block • Cymbals • Daikon • Dash Block • Drawbridge • Drum • Escalator • Falling Platform • Falling spike • Ferris wheel • Flip Panel • Flipswitch Panel • Floating corn • Floating couch • Floating crate • Fossilized dragon • Flower Road • Floor • Gear (Super Mario Odyssey) • Giant Swing • Goo • Grate • Green panel • Green platform • Ground • Hammer Pendulum • Hard Block • Heavy Zed • Hexagon • Hill • Ice • Icicle (Huge Icicle) • Invisible walkway • Iron Block • Island • Jelly • Kanaami road • Keyhole Pedestal • Large shell • Launch Fit • Leaf Platform • Lift Block • Lift platform • Light-Up-Lift • Log • Magnet Ground • Magnet Platform • Magnet Rod • Makeshift surfboard • Mienai Ashiba • Mirror • Moon platform • Movable cover • Moving Rail • Oseru Ashiba • Pan Platform • Picture block • Propeller Pillar • Push-Block • Pyramid platform • Puzzle piece • Raft • Rainbow Cruiser • Red and blue blocks • Red balloon • Red-and-yellow bridge • Red-Blue Panel • Rhythm Floor • Rippling Floor • Rising pillar • Rising Stone Pillar • Rolling log • Rotating bar • Rotating bridge • Rotating building • Rotating disc • Rotating platform • Rotating platform (Super Mario Odyssey) • Rotating square • Rough platform • Sand tide • Seesaw Fit • Seesaw Log Bridge • Shifting wall • Shifty Platform • Slingshroom • Snow bank • Snowball • Spinning block (Super Mario Odyssey) • Spinning disc • Spinning Log • Spinning saucepan • Spring Platform • Square • Squid Fit • Squishy block • Starshroom • Stove • Stump • Swaying platform • Swing • Swing (Super Mario Sunshine) • Swinging Scaffolding • Swirly Slab • Switchboard • Tapering platform • Teeter-totter • Teeter-totter moon • Tile • Tumbling barrel • Turning Floor • Ugoku Ashiba • Unbreakable block • Vanishing platform • Venus Trap Platform • Volcano (World 2-B) • Wheel • Wobble Rock • Wobbly platform • Xylophone • Yellow square • Yoshi Platform • Zip Track
Semisolid Platforms 15-Piece Puzzle • Balloon • Bean Platform • Bridge • Bouncy Cloud • Chandelier (platform) • Cloud Block • Cliff • Countdown Platform • Downpour Cloud • Dropping lift • Elevator Platform • Floating island platform • Floor (Wrecking Crew series) • Flower • Girder • Hip Tree • Hot Air Balloon • Jump-over cloud • Manhole • Magic carpet • Mobile • One-Way Wall • Purple Conveyor • Red Girder • Rising note • Rocking Platform • Rocky wall • Rolled-up carpet • Sand Geyser • Seesaw • Shrinking platform • Soft sand • Spine Coaster • Spinning Platform • Spring platform • Totchī • White Block • Witch's Cauldron • Yellow ledge
Lifts Akatō Lift • Arrow lift (New Super Mario Bros. series) • Arrow Lift (Super Mario 64) • Arrow Lift (Yoshi series) • Bell-shaped contraption • Blarggwich (sandwich) • Bolt Lift • Bone lift • Bone Lift (Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins) • Bone Lift (Super Mario Bros. Wonder) • Cloud Lift • Count-Lift • Cross Lift • Diagonal platform • Directional Lift • Disappearing platform • Donut Block • Dropdown Countdown Lift • Elevator block • Elevator lift • Eye Beamer • Flimsy Lift • Floating barrel • Floating platform • Flying Platform • Ghost-coaster • Hinged device • Hip Drop Move Lift • Ice platform • Lava Lift • Leaping lid • Limited Lift (Remote-Control) • Linking Lift • Liquid lift • Moving block • Multi-Vator • Paddle Platform • Pendulum Platform • Pinwheel • Platform wheel • Propeller Lift • Propeller Lift (Super Mario Land 2 - 6 Golden Coins) • Propeller Platform • Puffy Lift • Pump Lift • Remote-Control Platform • Remote-Controlled Lift • Raft (New Super Mario Bros. 2) • Rotary Lift • Rotating Panel • Scale Lift • Screwtop Lift • Segmented platform • Single Swing Lift • Ski Lift • Sky Move Lift • Slide Lift • Star Lift • Switch-Lift • Tilt Lift • Transparent Platform • Triple Swing Lift • White box • Wire Net Platform • Work Elevator • Zipline lift
Mushroom Platforms Moving Mushroom • Mushroom Trampoline • ON/OFF Trampoline • Piston Lift • Screwtop Shroom • Seesaw Shroom (blue) • Sinking and Rising Mushrooms • Stretch Shroom • Tilting mushroom
Trampolines Blue Spring • Bouncy Cloud • High Spring • Jump-over cloud • Long Spring • Shikaku Trampoline • Super Spring • Triangoline
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Super Mario 64 / Super Mario 64 DS
Playable characters Mario • Yoshi b • Luigi c • Wario c • Red Yoshi c • Blue Yoshi c • Yellow Yoshi c
Forms Wing Mario • Metal Mario/Metal Wario • Vanish Mario/Vanish Luigi • Fire Power c • Balloon Mario c • Super Mario c
Non-playable characters Lakitu Bros. • Princess Peach • Toad • Toads • Bob-omb Buddies • Koopa the Quick • Hoot • Penguins • Baby Penguins • Mother Penguin • Big Penguin • Snowman • Rabbits • MIPS a • Glowing rabbits c • Dorrie • Ukkikis
Enemies Amp • Bob-omb • Boo • Bookend • Bub • Bubba • Bullet Bill • Bully • Chain Chomp • Chair • Chuckya • Clam shell • Flame thrower • Fly Guy • Fwoosh • Goomba • Goombette • Grand Goomba • Grindel • Heave-Ho • Klepto • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Mad Piano • Manta Ray • Money Bags • Monty Mole • Moving Bar • Mr. Blizzard • Mr. I. • Piranha Flower • Piranha Plant • Podoboo • Pokey • Scuttle Bug • Skeeter • Small Koopa Troopa • Small Piranha • Snufit • Spindel • Spindrift • Spiny • Spiny bomb • Sushi • Swoop • Thwomp • Tox Box • Unagi • Unshelled Koopa • Whomp
Obstacles Casket • Cold water • Current • Deadly quicksand • Endless stairs • Falling pillar • Fire bar • Fireball • Flamethrower • Hidden smasher • Ice • Ice block • Iron ball • Lava • Moving sand • Pendulum • Pit • Quicksand • Rolling rock • Slide Box • Spiked orb • Strange toxic cloud • Tornado • Turtle Cannon • Water bomb • Water tide • Whirlpool • Wind
Bosses Big Bob-omb • Whomp King • Bowser • Big Boo • Big Mr. I. • Big Bully • Eyerok • Chill Bully • Wiggler • Goomboss c • King Boo c • Chief Chilly c
Items and power-ups 1-UP Mushroom • Blue Coin • Bubble • Crate • Crazed Crate • Jumbo Star • Key • Koopa Shell • Luigi Key c • Luigi's cap c • Mario's cap • Mario's Key c • Metal Cap a • Mushroom c • Power Flower c • Power Star • Red Coin • Silver Star c • Spinning Heart • Vanish Cap a • Wario Key c • Wario's cap c • Wing Cap a • Wings c • Yellow Coin • Yoshi Egg c
Objects 15-Piece Puzzle • ★ door • Accordion-like platform • Arrow Lift • Arrow Sign • Big House • Big Star Door • Block • Blue Coin Block • Brick pillar • Bubble ring • Butterfly • Cannon • Cap Block • Cap Switch • Conveyor belt • Crystal Tap • Drawbridge • Falling Block • Fish • Flagpole • Flipping block • Gondola • Ice sculpture • Key Door • Lift • Log • Magic carpet • Merry-go-round • Metal crate • Minute hand • Mushroom • Paddle wheel • Painting • Pole • Purple Switch • Pyramid • Pyramid platform • Rainbow Cruiser • Rotating bar • Rotating bridge • Rotating disc • Secret point • Seesaw • Semi-visible block • Shrinker Pipe • Sign • Square • Stake • Star Marker • Star Sphere c • Star Switch c • Swing • Tapering platform • Track • Treasure Chest • Tree • Volcano • Warp pipe • Warp Point • Waterfall • Wire net • Wired platform • Wobbly platform • Wooden beam • Work Elevator • Yellow block
Locations First floor and mezzanine Bob-omb Battlefield • Whomp's Fortress • Jolly Roger Bay • Cool, Cool Mountain • Bowser in the Dark World • The Princess's Secret Slide • The Secret Aquarium • Tower of the Wing Cap • Sunshine Isles c • Goomboss Battle c
Basement and courtyard Big Boo's Haunt • Hazy Maze Cave • Lethal Lava Land • Shifting Sand Land • Dire, Dire Docks • Bowser in the Fire Sea • Cavern of the Metal Cap/Behind the Waterfall • Vanish Cap Under the Moat/The Secret Under the Moat • Big Boo Battle c • Battle Fort c
Upper floors and tower Snowman's Land • Wet-Dry World • Tall, Tall Mountain • Tiny-Huge Island • Tick Tock Clock • Rainbow Ride • Bowser in the Sky • Wing Mario Over the Rainbow/Over the Rainbows • Chief Chilly Challenge c
Other Castle Grounds • Mushroom Castle • Princess's room • Courtyard • Rec Room c • Switching rooms c
Moves Backward Somersault • Body Slide • Crawl • Crouch • Double Jump • Egg Throw c • Flutter Kick c • Fly • Jump • Kick • Long Jump • Pound the Ground • Punch • Scuttle c • Side Somersault • Slide • Slide Kick • Spin Jump • Stomp • Swallow c • Sweep Kick • Swim • Swing and Fling c • Triple Jump • Wall Kick
Gameplay elements Completion • Letter • Mario's face • Missions • Power Meter • Slide • Switch Cap Course
Minigamesc Luigi Lucky Stars • Mario Slot • Memory Master • Memory Match • Mushroom Roulette • Pair-a-Gone • Pair-a-Gone and On • Picture Poker • Super Mario Slot
Mario Bounce and Pounce • Bounce and Trounce • Connect the Characters • Mario's Slides • Shell Smash • Shuffle Shell • Sort or 'Splode • Trampoline Terror • Trampoline Time
Wario Bingo Ball • Bob-omb Squad • Coincentration • Giant Snowball Slalom • Intense Coincentration • Lakitu Launch • Psyche Out! • Slots Shot • Snowball Slalom
Yoshi Boom Box • Hide and Boo Seek • Loves Me...? • Mix-a-Mug • Puzzle Panel • Puzzle Panic • Tox Box Shuffle • Wanted! • Which Wiggler?
Music "Big Boo's Haunt" • "Bowser's Road" • "Bowser's Theme" ("Bowser's Message") • "Dire, Dire Docks" • "The Endless Stairs" • "File Select" • "The Final Battle" • "Hazy Maze Cave" • "Lethal Lava Land" • "Main Theme" ("Cool, Cool Mountain" · "Course Clear" · "Game Over" · "Opening" · "Slider") • "The Merry-Go-Round" • "Metal Mario" • "Peach's Castle" ("Peach's Letter") • "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" • "Staff Roll" • "Stage Boss" • "Title Theme" • "Toad's Message" • "Star Catch Fanfare"
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a Exclusive to Super Mario 64
b Present in both games, but has different roles in each
c Exclusive to Super Mario 64 DS