This open-ended tower sends Mario through a series of glass pipe ... Cat Coin #1: At the start of the level, there’s a mini-maze of clear pipes for you to fly through. Go down into the pipe ...

In Super Mario 3D World, in particular ... Continue forward, through a clear pipe that takes you around a corner, and to a triple-wide question mark block. Hit it, get on top, and jump again ...

A newly unsurfaced and translated interview reveals more information about how the Mario franchise's iconic pipes came to be, and there is a pretty simple explanation for it. Mario creator Shigeru ...