Bowser's Painball

Bowser's Painball
Appears in	Mario Party 10
Type	Bowser minigame
Time limit	30 seconds
Music	Bowser's Punishment 2

Bowser's Painball is a Bowser minigame appearing in Mario Party 10. "Painball" is a portmanteau of the words "pain" and "pinball."

Gameplay

The players are in a pinball game controlled by Bowser. Bowser has 30 seconds to shoot Spike Balls to harm players. Other elements from a real pinball machine also appear here, with overhead bumpers and a moving wall. The players lose one heart every time they get hit. The game starts with one ball, and after about five seconds, a second ball appears from the left. If one of the balls falls in the center, the same ball will reappear after a few seconds.

The player playing as Bowser can actually shake the Wii U Gamepad to briefly stun the other players. This is never explained in-game, however.

Controls

Team Mario

• – Move

Bowser

• – Move left flipper
• – Move right flipper

In-game text

• Bowser: "Activate the flippers with and . Attack with the Spike Balls!"
• Team Mario: "Keep away from the Spike Balls!"

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	クッパのピンボールじごく Kuppa no pinbōru jigoku	Bowser's Pinball Hell
Dutch	Bowsers Flipperval	A pun on "Flipperkast", the Dutch word for a Pinball Machine.
French	Flipper flippant de Bowser	Bowser's Creepy Pinball
German	Bowsers Flipperfarce	Bowser's Pinball Farce
Italian	Flipper malefico	Evil pinball
Portuguese	Pinball Maléfico	Evil Pinball
Spanish	Pinball maléfico	Evil Pinball

Trivia

• This was one of the minigames featured in the E3 2014 demo.