Mario Party

Mario Party

Nintendo 64 - USA - 1st edition.

Developer Husdon Soft Publisher Nintendo Published 1998-12-18 Platforms Nintendo 64 Genres Board game, Multi-genre Themes Cartoon Series Mario Party Multiplayer Simultaneous versus Distribution Commercial

Mario Party is a Mario-themed video board game with dozens of minigames developed by Husdon Soft and published by Nintendo on the Nintendo 64 in 1998-12-18. It can be played by 1-4 players.

Personal

Own?	No.
Won?	No.
Finished	January 2017‎.

I first played this game at a friend's house with her family. Later, I played it in solo mode, and have played it against human opponents several times. I usually do fairly well against human opponents. I've beaten the AI in DK's Jungle Adventure, but need to beat all the other boards before I consider myself having beaten it properly.

Review

4	5	4	5	7

Best Version: Nintendo 64

— This section contains spoilers! —

Good

• The idea of adding mini games to a board game is a lot of fun.
• I like how you can use your game winnings to buy the mini games to practice.

Bad

• The pacing of the game is too slow. While it's acceptable to have a lot of down time between turns in a board game, it's not as forgivable during a video game.
• Due to the randomness of the game, it's possible to win every single mini-game, and still lose the board game.

Ugly

• The game really rewards randomness in the final star ceremony when a star is given for the player who landed on the most question mark spaces. It's possible to attempt to go for this star, but it usually requires taking so many undesirable forks you'll forfeit other stars to get it. Even then, there is a lot of randomness involved.

Media

Box Art

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  The original Japanese art. A very nice collage work that accurately depicts the game.

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  The box art used by North America and Europe is just a shrunken down less-impressive version of the Japanese art.

Documentation

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  Manual - N64 - USA.

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  Manual - N64 - Japan.

Graphics

• textures-resource.com/nintendo_64/marioparty - Textures.

Fan Art

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  Honest title.

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  Fan comic by Last Place Comics.

Videos

Did You Know Gaming? - Rigged dice.

Longplay.

Representation

Strong female character?	Pass	Peach is one of the playable characters.
Bechdel test?	Fail	There is only one woman.
Strong person of color character?	Fail	All the human characters are white.
Queer character?	Fail	There are no queer characters.

Titles

Language	Native	Transliteration	Translation
Chinese	马里奥聚会		Mario Party
English	Mario Party
Japanese	マリオパーティ	Mario Pati	Mario Party
Korean	마리오 파티	Malio Pati	Mario Party

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