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This article is about The boss character from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. For the Wario Land 3 enemy known as Prince Froggy, see Lumpy (enemy).
Prince Froggy
SpeciesFrog Pirate
First appearanceSuper Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (1995)
Latest appearanceYoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 (2002)
“Ribbet, ribbet, Froggy here!”
Prince Froggy, Tetris Attack

Prince Froggy (or simply Froggy) is a regal Frog Pirate who lives in a large swampy area on Yoshi's Island.

  • 1History
    • 1.1Yoshi series

History[edit]

Yoshi series[edit]

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island[edit]

Yellow Yoshi and Baby Mario inside of Froggy

Froggy is the midpoint boss of World 3 in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, and offers a unique challenge. When Yellow Yoshi engages the Frog Pirate in combat, Kamek swoops in and shrinks Yoshi, allowing Froggy to swallow the Yoshi whole. The actual battle is between Yoshi and Froggy's uvula, with hazardous stomach acid dripping from the top. Shy-Guys (which appear larger due to Yoshi's diminished size) fall into the stomach, and can be turned into large eggs. Yoshi must throw the eggs at the prince's uvula. After each hit, the stomach becomes progressively redder. After enough hits, the stomach flashes various colors as Yoshi escapes through Froggy's intestines, and he reverts back to his normal size while Froggy lays defeated.

Tetris Attack[edit]

Prince Froggy reappears in Tetris Attack with a Clawdaddy for a partner, and is known simply as Froggy. Having apparently changed his evil ways, he is now a friend of Yoshi's who needs to be rescued from Kamek's spell.

Super Mario-Kun[edit]

Froggy in the Super Mario-Kun

Just as in the game volume 14 of the Super Mario-Kun is adapted from, Froggy swallows Yoshi, Mario, Luigi, and Baby Mario. Shy Guys fall on the group, but they are avoided. Yoshi attempts to hit the uvula, and although the egg bounces many times in the stomach, it misses the uvula. Finally, a giant Shy Guy lands on them. Yoshi eventually finds a star, which turns Baby Mario into Superstar Mario. Baby Mario then runs up the walls and gives the uvula a beating. This causes Froggy to defecate the characters out.

Names in other languages[edit]

LanguageNameMeaning
Japaneseゲロゲーロ
Gerogēro
Onomatopoeia for the sound a frog makes.
SpanishPríncipe RanaPrince Frog
FrenchCouac la GoinfreCroak the Glutton (couac is a French onomatopoeia for the sound a frog makes)
GermanBörk BörkCroak Croak (börk is the German onomatopoeia for the sound a frog makes)
ItalianSir RanocchioSir Froggy
Chinese呱呱蛙王子
Guāguāwā Wángzǐ
Frog Pirate Prince

Trivia[edit]

  • The name 'Prince Froggy' is a reference to a fairy tale involving a princess kissing a frog and turning it into a prince. However, in the original Japanese version, his name is 'Gerogēro,' the same name as ordinary Frog Pirates, tying in with how the rest of the bosses are given generic names that are typically just an identifier for their size and their species name; as he is not resized, he remains a generic member of the species.
  • He is the only boss that is not affected by Kamek's magic. In turn, he is also the only boss that does not explode, signifying defeat - Yoshi does the explosion effect instead. Accordingly, the effect might just signify the reversion of Kamek's spells. The latter is supported with Hookbill Koopa's defeat, where after the explosions occur, Hookbill Koopa bursts out of the destroyed shell in his original size, as well as the defeat of Big Baby Bowser, where upon exploding, he is clearly restored to his original size.
  • Real-life frogs lack uvulas entirely.
  • Although Prince Froggy's boss fight in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island takes place inside his stomach, Toadies still appear to abduct Baby Mario if Yoshi is harmed and unable to retrieve the lost baby.
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Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island / Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3
CharactersYoshis • Baby Mario • Baby Luigi • Baby Bowser • Kamek • Stork • Poochy • Huffin Puffin • Melon Bug • Muddy Buddy • Roger Lift • Support Ghost
WorldsWelcome To Yoshi's Island • World 1 • World 2 • World 3 • World 4 • World 5 • World 6
ItemsRegular itemsBlue watermelon • Coin • Flower • Green watermelon • Key • Red Coin • Red watermelon • Star • Super Star • Yoshi's egg (Flashing Egg · Giant Egg · Red Egg · Yellow Egg)
Special Items10-Point Star • 20-Point Star • Anytime Egg • Anywhere POW • Magnifying Glass • Super Blue Watermelon • Super Green Watermelon • Super Red Watermelon • Winged Cloud Maker
Objects! Block • ! Switch • Arrow Cloud • Arrow Lift • Balloon • Beanstalk • Bubble • Bucket • Chomp Rock • Donut Lift • Dotted-Line Block • Egg Block • Egg-Plant • Expansion Block • Falling Rock • Flatbed Ferry • Flipper • Goal roulette • Green Shell • Ice Block • Icicle • Message Block • Middle Ring • Number Platform • Paddle wheel • Post • Pot • POW Block • Red Balloon • Red Shell • Rock Block • Snowball • Spinning Log • Spring ball • Squishy block • Tulip • Warp Pipe • Winged Cloud • Yoshi Block
BossesBurt the Bashful • Salvo the Slime • Bigger Boo • Roger the Potted Ghost • Prince Froggy • Naval Piranha • Marching Milde • Hookbill the Koopa • Sluggy the Unshaven • Raphael the Raven • Tap-Tap the Red Nose • Baby Bowser / Big Baby Bowser
Enemy classesEdibilis Boringus • Harrassimentia Phlyoverus • Projectilia Ritebakatchia • Ucantia Defeatus • Dudim Phreykunoutonthis • Mostosti Vomitonus
EnemiesAqua Lakitu • Bandit • Baron von Zeppelin • Baseball Boy • Barney Bubble • Beach Koopa • Big Boo • Blow Hard • Boo Balloon • Boo Blah • Boo • Boo Guy • Boo Man Bluff • Bouncing Bullet Bill • Bowling Goonie • Bubble Dayzee • Bullet Bill • Bumpty • Burt • Cactus Jack • Caged Ghost • Chain Chomp • Chain Gate • Chomp Shark • Clawdaddy • Cloud Drop • Coin Bandit • Crazee Dayzee • Dancing Spear Guy • Dangling Ghost • Dizzy Dandy • Dr. Freezegood • Eggo-Dil • Fang • Fat Guy • Fishin' Lakitu • Flamer Guy • Flightless Goonie • Flightless Skeleton Goonie • Flopsy Fish • Fly Guy • Flying Wiggler • Frog Pirate • Fuzzy • Gargantua Blargg • Georgette Jelly • Goomba • Goonie • Green Glove • Grim Leecher • Grinder • Grunt • Gusty • Harry Hedgehog • Hefty Goonie • Hootie the Blue Fish • Hot Lips • Incoming Chomp • Itsunomanika Heihō • Jean de Fillet • Kaboomba • Kamek • Koopa Troopa • Lakitu • Lantern Ghost • Lava Bubble • Lava Drop • Little Mouser • Little Skull Mouser • Loch Nestor • Lunge Fish • Mace Guy • Mace Penguin • Milde • Missile Bill* • Mock Up • Mufti Guy • Naval Bud • Needlenose • Nep-Enut • Nipper Plant • Nipper Spore • Para-Koopa • Piranha Plant • Piro Dangle • Piscatory Pete • Pokey • Potted Spiked Fun Guy • Preying Mantas • Puchipuchi L • Raven • Raven (chick) • Red Blargg • Relay Heihō • Sanbo Flower • Seedy Sally • Short Fuse • Shy-Guy • Shy-Guy on Stilts • Skeleton Goonie • Slime • Slime Drop • Slugger • Sluggy • Solo Toady • Spear Guy • Spiked Fun Guy • Spooky • Spray Fish • Stretch • Tap-Tap • Tap-Tap the Golden • Thunder Lakitu • Toady • Train Bandit • Wall Lakitu • Whirly Fly Guy • Wild Ptooie Piranha • Woozy Guy • Zeus Guy
ObstaclesBall 'N' Chain • Cannonball • Fire-Bar • Lava • Spike • Tekkyū Dosun • Thorn • Turtle Cannon
Mini BattlesGather Coins • Popping Balloons • Throwing Balloons • Watermelon Seed Spitting Contest
Bonus ChallengesFlip Cards • Scratch and Match • Drawing Lots • Match Cards • Roulette • Slot Machine
MiscellaneousYoshi's Island
Further infoGallery (SNES · GBA) • Glitches • Media • Pre-release and unused content • Staff (SNES · GBA) • Super Mario: Yoshi Island Original Sound Version
*Only in Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3
Tetris Attack
PalsYoshi • Lakitu • Bumpty* • Poochy • Flying Wiggler • Froggy • Gargantua Blargg • Lunge Fish • Raphael the Raven
RivalsHookbill The Koopa • Naval Piranha • Kamek • Bowser
Other charactersLittle Yoshi • Fly Guy • Goonie • Dr. Freezegood • Grinder • Eggo-Dil • Clawdaddy • Flamer Guy • Flopsy Fish • Shy Guy • Naval Bud • Toady
GameplayPanel • Garbage Block • Shock Panel • Shock Block
MiscellaneousGallery • Media • Quotes • Staff
* Exclusive to the SNES version.
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That's cool, I'm not debating which out of SMB3/SMW/Yoshi's Island is the greatest 2D Mario game but just pointing it that Yoshi's Island deserves to be remembered as one of the great 2D Mario.

This article is about the final castle in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. For the place, see Bowser's Castle. For the level in Yoshi's Woolly World, see King Bowser's Castle (Yoshi's Woolly World).
Level
King Bowser's Castle
World-Level6-8
GameSuper Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3
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King Bowser's Castle is the final main level in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3. Unlike previous castles, the player controls Green Yoshi instead of Blue Yoshi.

  • 1Layout

Layout[edit]

When Yoshi starts the level, he is in an outdoor fortress area with a huge moon, hills and skinny trees in the background. He then needs to cross a long gap as the Helicopter. Along the way, Yoshi must avoid the Skeleton Goonies; crashing into them causes him to fall (usually leading to losing a life). Kamek also occasionally flies in during this time, trying to knock Yoshi out of the sky. If Yoshi makes it to the Yoshi Block (followed by a Middle Ring), Kamek will fly in for the last time in the area and look at Yoshi grimly.

The hallway inside the castle consists of four areas to choose from (doors on a roulette wheel). Four doors which are numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4 spin on the wheel, and Yoshi must hit one with a Yoshi Egg, which will then drop to the floor and allow him to progress.

Door 1[edit]

Door 1 contains Mace Guys, Ball 'N' Chains, and lava pits.

Door 2[edit]

Door 2 includes nearly every Shy-Guy species, and at the end of that area is a door containing a Slime, who holds the key to another door that leads to the final room.

Door 3[edit]

Door 3 is notable for the appearance of Tap-Tap the Golden, where he chases Yoshi through a lava-filled cave path that autoscrolls. The 'Castle Boss' music plays in this area, but in the GBA version, the 'Room Before Boss' music plays instead. Yoshi can knock Tap-Tap the Golden back and into a pit with eggs, buying him some time. Tap-Tap the Golden will eventually reappear on screen, however. Eventually, Yoshi will reach a Warp Pipe to get away from him.

Door 4[edit]

Door 4 consists mostly of moving platforms that hold Coins (being a coin path where the player can get a lot of extra lives). The only possible threats are a few Gusties that fly through the stage and two Fly Guys at the end who carry 1-Ups.

Final room[edit]

Kamek attacking Yoshi

All four areas lead to the final room, where the 'Room Before Boss' music plays. The final room before the boss battle is an autoscrolling playroom. Kamek appears here and attempts to attack Yoshi with his magic wand. If Kamek hits any of the blocks in the level, they will turn into a Fang, a Milde, a Shy-Guy, or a star. If Yoshi makes it past Kamek's final shots, he will be awarded with a Middle Ring and a huge door that leads to Baby Bowser's room.

Kamek greets Yoshi, demanding he hand over Baby Mario. Soon, however, Baby Bowser awakens, aggravated that Kamek 'woke' him. He then repeatedly Ground Pounds Kamek and kicks him aside, before noticing Yoshi and acknowledging him as a 'gween donkey'. He attacks Yoshi, trying to push Baby Mario off and ride Yoshi. Yoshi must dodge Baby Bowser's Ground Pounds and Ground Pound the floor himself, creating a shockwave that can damage the young Koopa King.

Yoshi and the gigantic Baby Bowser are seen here fighting.

Once Baby Bowser is defeated after three hits, Kamek returns, fully healed from his beating, and puts his magic to full power. Yoshi then finds himself in the now-destroyed room, and Big Baby Bowser (healed from Kamek's spells) appears in the background. Yoshi must nab red Giant Eggs from the Baron von Zeppelins that fly in, while avoiding falling rocks that destroy the stadium, fireball blasts from Big Baby Bowser, and Big Baby Bowser charging at Yoshi head on. If Yoshi hits him seven times, Baby Bowser is returned to his normal self, and Kamek flies off with him. Then, Yoshi jumps up to a small area where the stork and Baby Luigi are kidnapped. After that, a message says:

Thus, due to the marvelous team work of the Yoshi clan, the twins are reunited.

The captured stork is freed by Yoshi, and sets about his duty and finally makes the long awaited delivery!

Thank you, Yoshi! The twins will meet the parents soon!

The Stork can then make his delivery to Baby Mario and Luigi's mother and father, and the credits roll.

Enemies[edit]

  • Slime (Miniboss)
  • Baby Bowser (Final Boss)

Names in other languages[edit]

LanguageNameMeaning
Japaneseいよいよ クッパじょうだ
Iyoiyo Kuppa Jō Da
At Last, it's Bowser's Castle!
SpanishCastillo del Rey BowserKing Bowser's Castle
FrenchBowser !! Enfin et déjà !! (Super Mario World 2 : Yoshi's Island)
Le Château de Bowser !! (Yoshi's Island : Super Mario Advance 3)
Literally 'Bowser !! Finally and already !!'
Bowser's Castle!!
GermanBowsers Schloß (Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island)
Bowsers Schloss (Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3)
Bowser's Castle
ItalianIl castello di Re BowserKing Bowser's castle
Chinese冲向酷霸王城堡!
Chōngxiàng Kùbàwáng Chéngbǎo!
Rush to Bowser's Castle!
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Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Islandlevels
World 1World 2World 3World 4
Make Eggs, Throw Eggs
Watch Out Below!
The Cave Of Chomp Rock
Burt The Bashful's Fort
Hop! Hop! Donut Lifts
Shy-Guys On Stilts
Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy
Salvo The Slime's Castle
Visit Koopa And Para-Koopa
The Baseball Boys
What's Gusty Taste Like?
Bigger Boo's Fort
Watch Out For Lakitu
The Cave Of The Mystery Maze
Lakitu's Wall
The Potted Ghost's Castle
Welcome To Monkey World!
Jungle Rhythm...
Nep-Enut's Domain
Prince Froggy's Fort
Jammin' Through The Trees
The Cave Of Harry Hedgehog
Monkeys' Favorite Lake
Naval Piranha's Castle
GO! GO! MARIO!!
The Cave Of The Lakitus
Don't Look Back!
Marching Milde's Fort
Chomp Rock Zone
Lake Shore Paradise
Ride Like The Wind
Hookbill The Koopa's Castle
World 5World 6Secret LevelsExtra Levels
BLIZZARD!!!
Ride The Ski Lifts
Danger - Icy Conditions Ahead
Sluggy The Unshaven's Fort
Goonie Rides!
Welcome To Cloud World
Shifting Platforms Ahead
Raphael The Raven's Castle
Scary Skeleton Goonies!
The Cave Of The Bandits
Beware The Spinning Logs
Tap-Tap The Red Nose's Fort
The Very Loooooong Cave
The Deep, Underground Maze
KEEP MOVING!!!!
King Bowser's Castle
Exercise in the Skies
Mystery of the Castle?
Go! Go! Morphing!
Fight Toadies w/ Toadies
Items are fun!
Endless World of Yoshis
Poochy Ain't Stupid
Hit That Switch!!
More Monkey Madness
The Impossible? Maze
Kamek's Revenge
Castles - Masterpiece Set/Ultimate Castle Challenge
Yoshi
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