Goal Pole: Difference between revisions

In ''Super Mario Bros.'' and ''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]'', flagpoles feature a green pole (which can sometimes be orange or gray in certain levels due to palette limitations) and a white flag with a green skull on them, which is reversed in ''[[Super Mario All-Stars]]''. [[Mario]] can jump over the flagpole in certain levels (such as [[World 3-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 3-3]] of ''Super Mario Bros.''). However, this will only result in Mario/Luigi being trapped in an empty, endlessly looping void once the flagpole disappears offscreen until they run out of time. In ''Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels'', Luigi can do so more easily due to his better jumping abilities. In order to still finish the level, the brother has to jump at it from the other side. It is unknown whether this is a glitch, as it does not cause any errors, and it was not fixed in ''Super Mario All-Stars'' (however, the player this time cannot venture beyond the fortress/castle and is simply just stopped by an invisible barrier on the right side of the screen), though ''[[Super Mario Bros. Deluxe]]'' makes it impossible; ''Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels'' actually hides a few [[Warp Zone]]s behind them. If the player gets a 1, 3, or 6 on the timer in ''Super Mario Bros.'', they can get one, three, or six [[fireworks]], each worth 500 points, depending on which number the last digit is. Grabbing the top of the flagpole in these games only rewards the player with 5000 [[point]]s, rather than with an extra life as is the case in later games of the series. However, in ''Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels'', the player can receive an extra life from a flagpole, but only if both digits of the coin counter and the last digit of the timer match when the player's character touches the flagpole. In Super Mario All-Stars, the flag is on the right side, and in Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, he can slide down the right side if he's looking left when he touches the pole. In Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, when Mario grabs the pole, Bowser's flag is pulled down to the base before vanishing, while the flag with the character's emblem is raised.