Ground Pound (minigame)

Ground Pound
Appears in	Mario Party
Type	Single-player mini-game
Time limit	30 seconds
Music	Can It be Done?

Ground Pound is a one-player minigame found in Mario Party.

Gameplay

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 Ground Pound all the pegs with a flat top. Ground Pounding 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.

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."
• Advice – "Watch carefully. Look beneath the butterflies, and you'll see parts of the posts."

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ひっこめヒップドロップ Hikkome hippudoroppu	Hip-drop Retracting
French	Pilonna-jeu	Pound game (also a pun on papillon (butterfly)
German	Boden-Rammen	Ground-Ramming

Trivia

• The term "Ground Pound" wasn't used in the minigame descriptions in Mario Party and Mario Party 2. Instead the term used was "Hip Drop." This was changed to "Ground Pound" in the later Mario Party games.