Mario Party
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| Developer(s) | Hudson Soft |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Release date(s) | February 8, 1999 |
| Genre | Party |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Everyone (E) ELSPA: 3+ |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo 64 |
Mario Party is the first in a series of board game style video games for Nintendo platforms, featuring popular Nintendo characters. It was released on the Nintendo 64 in North America on February 8, 1999 following a Japanese release on December 18, 1998. It was released in Europe much later on September 3, 1999. The game has spawned six sequels with the most recent one, Mario Party 7 coming out in 2005 on the Nintendo Gamecube, and a Game Boy Advance version, Mario Party Advance.
The game contains six characters: Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Wario and Donkey Kong. After finishing a party, both of these games would have an ending celebration in which the winner would fix a trouble that was happening on the board. There is a one-player mode in which the player had to clear all of the minigames, one at a time, by defeating computer controlled opponents.
The game contains a standard party mode in which up to four players play through a board, trying to collect as many stars as possible. The star space would appear randomly on the board, and players would have to reach it before anyone else. However, the stars carry a price tag of 20 coins, and player has to earn those coins by wining minigames, which take place at the end of each turn (after all the players have rolled the dice block, which will always roll a number from one to ten).
Every Mario Party contains 60 to 80 minigames of a few different types. Four-player games were a free-for-all in which all players competed against each other. 2-on-2 and 1-on-3 minigames would put players in groups, so they would have to cooperate in the minigame to win, even though they are against each other in the main game. In most situations, winners of these games would make 10 coins each.
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List of Boards
Mario Party contains the most amount of boards in the series (discounting duel boards in Mario Party 3).
- Mario's Rainbow Castle
- Luigi's Engine Room
- Peach's Birthday Cake
- Yoshi's Tropical Island
- DK's Jungle Adventure
- Wario's Battle Canyon
- Bowser's Magma Mountain (Buy at the shop)
- Eternal Star (Collect 100 stars)
List of Minigames
4 Player
- Face Lift
- Coin Block Blitz
- Platform Peril
- Box Mountain Mayhem
- Mushroom Mix-up
- Musical Mushroom
- Balloon Burst
- Hot Bob-omb
- Skateboard Scamper
- Crazy Cutter
- Treasure Divers
- Grab Bag
- Bumper Balls
- Tipsy Tourney
- Bombs Away
- Mario Bandstand
- Cast Aways
- Hammer Drop
- Shy Guy Says
- Key-pa-Way
- Buried Treasure
- Running Of The Bulb
- Hot Rope Jump
- Slot Car Derby
1 vs. 3
- Pipe Maze
- Bash 'n Cash
- Tug 'o War
- Bowl Over
- Paddle Battle
- Coin Shower Flower
- Piranah's Persuit
- Tight Rope Treachery
- Coin Block Bash
- Crane Game
2 vs. 2
- Handcar Havoc
- Deep Sea Divers
- Bombsket Ball
- Bobsled Run
- Desert Dash
1 Player
- Memory Match
- Knock Block Tower
- Limbo Dance
- Slot Machine
- Pedal Power
- Whack A Plant
- Shell Game
- Ghost Guess
- Ground Pound
- Teetering Towers
- Chance Game
- Bumper Ball Maze 1
- Bumper Ball Maze 2
- Bumper Ball Maze 3
Stick Rotation Controversy
After the release of the game, it was investigated by the Office of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, over claims that the minigames that involved analog stick rotation caused blisters and other hand injuries. In March 2000, Nintendo reached an agreement wherein it would provide up to four padded gloves to each owner. [1] (http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2000/mar/mar08a_00.html)
Subsequent versions of the Mario Party series did not include the stick rotation games.
New Stuff In Mario Party
Because this was the first Mario Party released, it introduces all of the elements of the Mario Party Franchise. The first six playable characters of the series are included: Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, Wario, and Donkey Kong. Board characters are major in this game, including Bowser, Toad, Boo, Baby Bowser, and Koopa Troopa.
The new spaces in this game are all the spaces. The Blue Space, Red Space, Happening Space, Chance Space, Bowser Space, Mini- Game Space, and Mushroom Space are all introduced. The latter two spaces have not appeared in a Mario Party game since this one.
Ten brand new boards (ten includes the Mini- Game Stadium and Mini- Game Island) and fifty-three brand new mini- games are thrown in the shuffle. Items in this game are also new, although they are used for universal settings (i.e., varying types of dice, toggling who appears on boards, different types of coin collectors) as opposed to individual use that is incorporated in the subsequent titles.