Mario Party

Each board has its own theme and a twist on the basic race for Stars. Six are open from the start and two more have to be earned. A game lasts 20, 35 or 50 turns, and bonus Stars are handed out at the end.

• DK’s Jungle Adventure – a treasure hunt among ancient ruins. Whomps block the junctions until you pay them 10 coins, and a rolling boulder chases players along the path.
• Peach’s Birthday Cake – the smallest board, built around a Goomba’s Flower Lottery. Players can also plant seeds that sprout Star-stealing Piranha Plants.
• Yoshi’s Tropical Island – two islands where Yoshis are trapped. Thwomps want paying before they let you through, and their fee keeps climbing.
• Wario’s Battle Canyon – four areas set around Bowser’s zone, with cannons firing players from one to another while the Bob-ombs and Bob-omb Buddies feud.
• Luigi’s Engine Room – red and blue doors switch between open and shut, steam generators launch players upwards, and every route leads back to Boo near the start.
• Mario’s Rainbow Castle – a board in the sky with a rotating tower at its heart. If Bowser turns up, he sells a worthless Ztar for 40 coins.
• Bowser’s Magma Mountain – a volcano summit with stone-head shortcuts. Its scroll costs 980 coins and goes on sale once every other board has been played at least once.
• Eternal Star – the space-themed finale. Koopa Troopa has been kidnapped, players win Stars back from Baby Bowsers, and Bowser waits in the middle. It opens after collecting 100 Stars and playing all the other boards.

Tensions mount for Mario and pals as each declares himself to be the one true Super Star of Mario Land. Face your friends and family in a contest of strength, wits and agility as you explore 6 thrilling Adventure boards. Reveal new levels of gaming excitement as you customize your boards with speed blocks, warp blocks and other speciality items. Jam-packed with all the electricity of an entire arcade, the action comes alive for up to four players. So grab your friends and get ready for a wild ride because this party never ends!

Mario Party is a board-game style title for the Nintendo 64. Players can choose from one of six playable characters as below:-

• Mario

• Luigi

• Yoshi

• Princess Toadstool

• Wario

• Donkey Kong

• Party mode – Four players will play on a board-game style setup, taking it in turns to roll a dice which decides
  how many spaces their player will move around the board. Once everyone has taken a turn a randomly selected mini game will begin. Players
  continue rolling and playing mini games until time runs out.

• Mini-game mode – in this mode the player can select up to seven mini-games to play back to back and customise the settings of the mini-games as required.

Shoot for the stars in 2-on-2. 3-on-1 or 4-player free-for-all action. Bash, bump and bully your way through 56 dizzying Mini-games. 9 World Maps provide a challenging single-player quest on Mini-Game Island.

Mario Party is a compilation of fifty-six Mini-Games comprising; ten single-player Mini-Games, five two-v-two Mini-Games, ten 3-v-1 Mini-Games and twenty-four four player Mini-Games.

A playthrough of each game board in Mario Party is below:-

The playlist order is as below list, but

1. Donkey Kong’s Jungle Adventure

2. Peaches Birthday Cake

3. Yoshi’s Tropical Island

4. Wario’s Battle Canyon

5. Luigi’s Engine Room

6. Mario’s Rainbow Castle

You can skip to a board of your choice by clicking in the top left of the playlist and choosing a different video:-

• Once the game is completed the tune playing while the credits are scrolling is actually a heavily remixed version of the Mario Bros. Tune.

• The second Mario game (to Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars) allowing you to buy items

• The second Mario game to allow up to 4 players, the first was Mario Kart 64

• Long after the release of Mario Party, infact even after the release of Mario Party 2, Nintendo bought out a Mario Party glove.

• This glove was given away free and was intended for gamers who played a lot not to blister their hands due to the way the n64 controls were, Nintendo required proof of purchase of the Mario Party games to send these gloves out. The gloves were not logo bearing and had no Mario Characters on.

Hudson Soft also co-developed the Game Boy Color Pokémon Trading Card Game with Creatures; it launched in Japan on 18 December 1998, the same day as Mario Party.

Some of the mini games names are puns, such as below:-

• Mario Party – Cheats / Unlockables / Hints

• Mario Party – Credits

• Mario Party – Desktop Wallpaper

• Mario Party – Rendered Artwork

• Mario Party – Screenshots

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