Lakitu

Lakitu is a character that appears in 40 games

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Lakitu has appeared in a variety of Mario games; from Mario Bros on the NES right up to Mario Kart Wii. He is responsible for dropping Spinies onto the levels below and holding up signs.

As with any anthropomorphic species in the Mario series, the Lakitus come in good and evil varieties. Using its own personal flying cloud Lakitu can either hinder or help Mario on his many adventures, and has appeared in much of the Mario series since its inception- effectively in the same category as the classic Mario characters (Goombas, Koopa Troopas, Bullet Bills and Piranha Plants being among some).

Lakitus as foes of Mario use their height and speed advantage to attack from the sky with various projectiles; usually spiny shells. A pain to avoid, it turns out, and equally so for Mario to remove these enemies from his path. It wasn’t until Super Mario World that the plumber could get his own back and steal Lakitu’s cloud from under it. Not all variants had the aerial advantage, though- some chose to hide in pipes from which to attack.

It’s not all bad for Mario, though- some useful characters from the flying turtles have appeared to help him in his quests. Super Mario 64’s pioneer approach to the 3D platform game camera involved an actual in game camera that the Lakitu Bros would carry while following Mario. Also professed judge of the Mario Kart series, Lakitu would carry the race’s start light, and bring aid to anyone who had taken an ill turn in the race.

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Name	Platforms	Developer
Mario Kart Arcade GP	ARC	Nintendo, NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc.
Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt / World Class Track Meet	NES	Bandai Co., Ltd.
Mario Kart Wii released on April 27, 2008	WII	Nintendo EAD
Super Smash Bros. Brawl released on March 9, 2008	WII	Game Arts Co., Ltd., Sora
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games released on Nov. 6, 2007	DS, WII	SEGA Studios
Itadaki Street DS released on June 21, 2007	DS	Square Enix
Super Paper Mario released on April 9, 2007	WII	Intelligent Systems Co., Ltd.
Yoshi's Island DS released on Nov. 13, 2006	DS	Artoon Co., Ltd.
New Super Mario Bros. released on May 15, 2006	DS	Nintendo
Tetris DS released on March 20, 2006	DS	Nintendo
Super Princess Peach	DS	Nintendo, TOSE Co., Ltd.
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time released on Nov. 28, 2005	DS	AlphaDream Corporation, Ltd.
Mario Kart DS released on Nov. 14, 2005	DS	Nintendo
Dance Dance Revolution MARIO Mix released on Oct. 24, 2005	GC	Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo
Mario Superstar Baseball released on Aug. 29, 2005	GC	NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc.
Yoshi Touch & Go released on March 14, 2005	DS	Nintendo EAD
The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap released on Jan. 10, 2005	GBA	Flagship Co., Ltd.
Mario Power Tennis released on Nov. 8, 2004	GC, WII	Camelot Software Planning
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door released on Oct. 11, 2004	GC	Intelligent Systems Co., Ltd.
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga released on Nov. 17, 2003	GBA	AlphaDream Corporation, Ltd.
Mario Kart: Double Dash released on Nov. 17, 2003	GC	Nintendo EAD
Super Mario Bros. 3: Super Mario Advance 4 released on Oct. 21, 2003	GBA	Nintendo R&D2
Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour released on July 28, 2003	GC	Camelot Software Planning
Mario Party 4 released on Oct. 21, 2002	GC	Hudson Entertainment, Inc.
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3	GBA	Nintendo R&D2
Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2 released on Feb. 9, 2002	GBA	Nintendo R&D2
Mario Kart Super Circuit released on Aug. 27, 2001	GBA	Intelligent Systems Co., Ltd.
Paper Mario released on Feb. 5, 2001	N64, WSHP	Intelligent Systems Co., Ltd.
Mario Kart 64 released on Feb. 10, 1997	N64, WSHP	Nintendo EAD
Super Mario 64 released on Sept. 29, 1996	N64, DS, WSHP	Nintendo EAD
Tetris Attack released on Aug. 5, 1996	GB, SNES	Nintendo, Intelligent Systems Co., Ltd.
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island released on Oct. 4, 1995	GBA, SNES	Nintendo EAD
Mario's Tennis released on Aug. 1, 1995	VBOY	Nintendo
Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World	SNES	Nintendo EAD
Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels	FDS, SNES, WSHP	Nintendo
Super Mario All-Stars released on Aug. 1, 1993	SNES	Nintendo
Super Mario Kart released on Sept. 1, 1992	SNES	Nintendo EAD
Super Mario World released on Aug. 13, 1991	SNES, WSHP	Nintendo EAD
Super Mario Bros. 3 released on Jan. 23, 1990	NES, GBA, WSHP	Nintendo EAD
Super Mario Bros. released on Jan. 13, 1985	NES, GBA, ARC, WSHP	Nintendo
Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt	NES	Nintendo