Ground Pound (minigame)

Ground Pound
Appears in	Mario Party
Type	1-Player mini-game
Time limit	30 seconds
Music track	Can It be Done?
Music sample

Ground Pound is a 1-Player minigame in Mario Party.

Overview

Before the game starts, the player has to look carefully at the pegs before the butterflies cover the tops. In order to win, the player must hip-drop all the pegs with flat tops. Hip-dropping a peg with a pointy top injures the player and causes them to lose time. Sometimes, the butterflies do not cover the pegs completely, thus giving the player a better advantage.

The minigame costs 50 Coins to buy at the Mini-Game House.

Controls

• – Move
• – Jump
• + – Hip Drop

In-game text

• Game Rules – "Hip Drop onto the flat-topped posts. Try to remember which are flat and which are pointy before the butterflies land."
• Game Rules (Mini-Game Island) – "Pound the flat-topped posts with Hip Drops. Clear the game by pounding all the flat-topped posts."
• Advice – "Watch carefully. Look beneath the butterflies, and you'll see parts of the posts."

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Note(s)	Ref.
Japanese	ひっこめヒップドロップ Hikkome hippudoroppu	Hip-drop Retracting		[?]
French	Pilonna-jeu	Pounded game (also a pun on papillon ("butterfly")
German	Boden-Rammen	Ground-Ramming		[?]
Italian	Ground Pound	-

Notes

• The minigame descriptions in Mario Party and Mario Party 2 use the phrase "Hip Drop" despite the minigame title, whereas the move would not be called "Ground Pound" until Mario Party 3 onward.
• When the minigame is played by a CPU character of any difficulty, they always hip-drop an incorrect peg for every correct one.