Mario Party 2
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| Developer(s) | Hudson Soft |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Release date(s) | January 24, 2000 |
| Genre | Party |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Everyone (E) |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo 64 |
Mario Party 2 is the second the 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 January 24, 2000 following a Japanese release on December 17, 1999. It was released in Europe much later on October 13, 2000. It is generally considered to be the best in the Mario Party series, with later installments facing criticism of being too similar to their predecessors.
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 has to clear all of the minigames, one at a time, by defeating computer controlled opponents. This Mario Party game sees the characters in a 'western' style attire.
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).
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Every Mario Party contains 60 to 80 minigames of a few different types. Four-player games are a free-for-all in which all players competed against each other. 2-on-2 and 1-on-3 minigames put players in groups, so they 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 make 10 coins each.
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List of Boards
- Pirate Land
- Western Land
- Mystery Land
- Horror Land
- Space Land
- Bowser Land (Play all the other boards)
Mini Games
4 Player
- Abandon Ship
- Bombs Away
- Bumper Balls
- Deep Sea Salvage
- Dizzy Dancing
- Hexagon Heat
- Honeycomb Havoc
- Hot Rope Jump
- Lava Tile Isle
- Mecha-Marathon
- Platform Peril
- Roll Call
- Shell Shocked
- Shy Guy Says
- Skateboard Scamper
- Slot Car Derby
- Sneak 'n' Snore
- Tile Driver
- TOAD in the Box
- Totem Pole Pound
1 vs. 3
- Archer-ival
- BOB-OMB Barrage
- Bowl Over
- Crane Game
- Filet Relay
- Lights Out
- Look Away
- Move to the Music
- Quicksand Cache
- Rainbow Run
- Shock Drop or Roll
2 vs. 2
- Balloon Burst
- Bobsled Run
- Cake Factory
- Destruction Duet
- Dungeon Dash
- Handcar Havoc
- Looney Lumberjacks
- MAGNET CARTA
- Sky Pilots
- Speed Hockey
- TOAD Bandstand
- Torpedo Targets
Battle
- BOWSER'S Big Blast
- Bumper Balloon Cars
- Crazy Cutters
- Day at the Races
- Face Lift
- Grab Bag
- Hot BOB-OMB
- Rakin' 'Em In
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Item
- Bowser Slots (Bowser Land)
- Coffin Congestion (Horror Land)
- Give Me a Brake! (Western Land)
- Hammer Slammer (Space Land)
- Mallet-Go-Round (Mystery Land)
- Roll Out the Barrels (Pirate Land)
Duel
- Mushroom Brew (Horror Land)
- Psychic Safari (Mystery Land)
- Quick Draw Corks (Western Land)
- Rock, Paper, MARIO (Bowser Land)
- Sabe Slashes (Pirate Land)
- Time Bomb (Space Land)
1- Player
- Driver's Ed
New Stuff In Mario Party 2
All of the playable characters from the original game are still available, but this time, they are all dressed in costumes unique to the board you're playing on (except for Bowser Land, where their attire is normal). Board characters include Toad, Baby Bowser, and Boo, with the noteable absense of Bowser and Koopa Troopa (although both have roles in the game). Another new feature of the game is the introduction of buildings on the boards: the Item Shop and the Koopa Bank.
MP2 also features several new spaces, with the Mini- Game Space and Mushroom Space absent: the Battle Space, the Item Space, and the Bank Space. The Item Space activates mini- games specific to the board that allow you to collect an item, which is now used to further your board strategy (as opposed to items being used to toggle universal settings in Mario Party).
The game also features seven brand new boards (including Mini- Game Coaster) with the return of Mini- Game Stadium. Fourty- three new mini- games were introduced in MP2, while old MP1 mini- games were updated and some were retitled. Three new types of mini- game were also introduced: the Battle mini- game, the Item mini- game, and the Duel mini- game.