Hoopster

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Hoopster
Hoopster
Artwork from Super Mario Advance
First appearance Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic (1987, overall)
Super Mario Bros. 2 (1988, Super Mario franchise)
Latest appearance Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition (2024)
Comparable

Hoopsters are large, ladybug-like enemies that first appear in Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2.

History

Super Mario series

Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic / Super Mario Bros. 2

Artwork of Hoopster from the Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic manual (pg. 32).
Artwork from Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic, showing the original design of a Hoopster

In Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic and Super Mario Bros. 2, Hoopsters are found in a few levels and first appear in World 1-1. They are usually found crawling up and down vines, though occasionally they instead do so on trees in the background. Hoopsters speed up if the player's character (either Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, or Toad) is near or on their vines. If the character touches a Hoopster from the side or below, they get injured. The character can jump on the Hoopster to ride up the vine it is crawling on. The character can defeat a Hoopster by either throwing a vegetable at it, touching it while under the Starman effect, or simply picking it up and throwing it.

In the original version and the Super Mario All-Stars remake, Hoopsters are red with black spots, while their Super Mario Advance sprites depict them as yellow with red spots, making them somewhat resemble 22-spot ladybugs. The artwork for all versions, however, depicts them as red with a lighter shade of magenta for their spots.

In the ending's cast list for the original version and the Super Mario All-Stars remake, Hoopster's name was misspelled as Hoopstar. This was corrected in Western versions of Super Mario Advance.

Super Mario All-Stars / Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3

In Super Mario All-Stars and Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, both remakes of Super Mario Bros. 3, the king of Desert Hill is turned into a Hoopster with his own Magic Wand by Morton Koopa Jr. Additionally, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3's World-e level Rich with Ropes features Hoopsters as enemies, acting the same as in Super Mario Bros. 2 as well sharing a sprite with the king's.

The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!

Hoopster
Four Hoopsters from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
“Oh no! Look! Koopa found we're missing and summoned his Hoopsters!”
Princess Toadstool, "Mario and the Beanstalk"

Several Hoopsters appear as minions of King Koopa in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode "Mario and the Beanstalk", being sent by King Koopa to attack Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, Toad and their goose ally on a giant beanstalk. These Hoopsters are defeated by Mario, who throws several Garbanzo Beans at them. Much like the game, they are red, but their spots are white instead of pink. Their legs are shown to be purple, while their feet seem to be gloved. Their eyes also are connected to each other, and the area around them is also purple instead of black.

Nintendo Adventure Books

When Mario first arrives in the Mushroom Kingdom in Double Trouble, he spots some Hoopsters (most of them presumably sand clones created by the GLOM) fighting for room on a hill. Later, Mario casually mentions that he hates it when the beetles ruin his picnics by stealing the food.

In Leaping Lizards, Hoopsters are used in the second International Mushroom Games event, the Beetlebowl, in which the goal is to catch and dunk Hoopsters into an opposing team's bucket. The gold trophy awarded to the winner of the tournament is also described as being based on a Hoopster.

In Pipe Down!, Ludwig von Koopa can use his giant pipe organ to summon some Hoopsters and other enemies to swarm the Mario Bros. if they attempt to attack him directly during one portion of the book. In Dinosaur Dilemma, while traveling through a forest, Yoshi spots some Hoopsters crawling around a tree trunk, and eyes them hungrily.

Profiles

Super Mario series

Super Mario Bros. 2

  • Instruction booklet description: "He is a creature about the size of a basketball. He resembles a lady beetle. He lives on vines and crawls up and down."[1]

Super Mario Advance

  • Instruction booklet description: "You'll find Hoopsters hanging on vines and ropes. They're real speedsters, so step lively!"[2]:12

Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten

ターペン (JP) / Turpen (EN)
A Hoopster from Super Mario Bros. 2.
Original text (Japanese) Translation
種族しゅぞく クリープ族 Tribe Creep clan
性格せいかく 落ち着きがない Disposition Restless
登場とうじょうゲーム USA Game appearances USA
つたに住む変な虫

マリオUSAの6面の砂漠に登場する昆虫。つたに住み着いて、上下している。うまく上に乗れば、 エレベーターにもなる。アメリカ名をフープスターという。[3]

Strange insects living in the ivy

An insect that appears in the desert on the sixth page of Mario USA. It lives on ivy and moves up and down. If it rides up successfully, it can be used as an elevator. Its American name is Hoopster.

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Artwork

Sprites

Screenshots

Scans

Names in other languages

The contemporaneous name for each language is listed first. Subsequent names are listed in chronological order for each language, from oldest to newest.

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ターペン[4][5]
Tāpen
Turpen; likely an abridging of "turpentine" or a derivation of an anagram of「ぺたぺた」(peta-peta), an onomatopoeia for the sound of a flat surface repeatedly making contact with something
フープスター[6][5]
Fūpusutā
Transliteration of the English name Super Mario USA, Super Mario All-Stars
Chinese (simplified) 青藤虫[7]
Qīngténg Chóng
Green Vine Insect, likely in reference to vines
Dutch Hoopster[8] -
French Hoopster[8][2]:52 -
German Hoopster[9][10][11][2]:32 -
Italian Coccinellona[2]:112 Femininized augmentative of coccinella ("lady beetle")
Hoopester[12] Potentially a portmanteau of "Hoopster" and peste ("pest") Super Mario Bros. 2
Coccinellone[13] Masculinized augmentative of coccinella ("lady beetle"); potentially a misinterpretation of the Super Mario Advance instruction booklet, which pluralizes the Italian names of the enemies[2]:112 Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia
Polish Hoopster[14] -
Portuguese Hoopster[15] -
Spanish Hoopster[16][2]:92 -
Swedish Hoopster[17] -

Notes

  • In the Japanese manual, Hoopster is likened to a soccer ball,[4] whereas in the English one, it is compared to a basketball (likely referring to the "hoop" in its name).[1]

References

  1. ^ a b 1988. Super Mario Bros. 2 instruction booklet. Nintendo of America (English). Page 24.
  2. ^ a b c d e f 2001. Super Mario Advance Instruction Booklet (PDF). Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian).
  3. ^ November 20, 1994. Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten. Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-259067-9. Page 100.
  4. ^ a b サッカーボールだいのテントウむしみたい怪物かいぶつ。つるにみつき上下じょうげ移動いどうしている。」("A soccer ball-sized, ladybug-like creature. It lives on vines and crawls up and down.") – 1987. Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic instruction booklet. Nintendo (Japanese). Page 32.
  5. ^ a b Perfect Ban Mario Character Daijiten. Page 225.
  6. ^ Itoi, Shigesato, Ryo Kagawa (APE), Hideaki Nishitani, Masatoshi Watanabe, Koichi Sugiyama (Supersonic), Junichiro Okubo, and Shigeo Tanabe (Shogakukan), editors (1993). 『任天堂公式ガイドブック スーパーマリオコレクション』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 4-09-102444-0. Page 149.
  7. ^ From the ending scenes of Super Mario Advance as localized by iQue. 无敌阿尔宙斯 (August 28, 2013). 神游 超级马力欧2敌人官译. Baidu Tieba (Simplified Chinese). Archived February 26, 2017, 16:11:09 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved August 6, 2024.
  8. ^ a b 1989. Super Mario Bros. 2 Handleiding / mode d'emploi. Brussels: Nintendo (Dutch, French). Page 27.
  9. ^ 1990. Super Mario Bros. 2 Speilanleitung. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). Page 25.
  10. ^ Matsumoto, Atsuko, Rie Ishii, and Claude Moyse, editors (1992). Der Spieleberater Super Mario Power. Großostheim: Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German). ISBN 3-929034-02-6. Page 118.
  11. ^ The Super Mario Bros Super Show! Folge 8 Fledermäuse im Keller / Mario und die Bohnenranke
  12. ^ 1989. Super Mario Bros. 2 Libretto di Istruzioni. Oleggio Castello: Nintendo (Italian). Page 24.
  13. ^ November 15, 2018. Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 67.
  14. ^ Super Mario Bros. Super Show! - Episode 7 | Mario and the Beanstalk (Polish Voice-Over).[dead link]
  15. ^ Gaglianone, Arthur, and Francisco Pellegrini Jr., directors (1991). Super Mario Bros. Livro Ilustrado. Rio de Janeiro: Multi Editora (Brazilian Portuguese). Page 9.
  16. ^ 1989. Super Mario Bros. 2 Libro de Intrucciones. Madrid: Nintendo (Spanish). Page 24.
  17. ^ Super Mario Bros Super Show - Episode 7 - Swedish