Mush Pit
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- Not to be confused with Mosh-Pit Playroom.
| Mush Pit | |||
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| Appears in | Mario Party 3 Mario Party: The Top 100 Mario Party Superstars | ||
| Type | 4-Player minigame | ||
| Time limit | 60 seconds | ||
| Music track | On Your Toes / Come On, Chop-Chop! (remakes) Mushroom Power-Up (Mario Party 3) Mega Mushroom (remakes) | ||
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Mush Pit is a 4-Player minigame in Mario Party 3 (where it is known as Toadstool Titan), Mario Party: The Top 100, and Mario Party Superstars. In the Mario Party 3 version, Players race to collect a Mushroom from floating Brick Blocks, which will cause one player to temporarily grow to massive proportions. In this state, the player who got the mushroom chases after the other players, eliminating them on contact. The other players have to avoid the enlarged player. Once the mushroom's effect ends, more Brick Blocks appear, with a new mushroom inside. This procedure loops until only one player remains or until time runs out, whichever comes first.
Overview[edit]
Mario Party 3[edit]
The Mario Party 3 version of the minigame takes place within a square brick room with a giant Mushroom design on the floor. The walls have flat pipes in front of blue and white bricks that together evoke the sky and clouds.
The minigame starts with a player in each corner of the room and nine Brick Blocks in the middle. Players must hit brick blocks by jumping, looking for a Mushroom. Empty Brick Blocks simply break on contact. When a Mushroom is found, it starts moving around the room, and all remaining Brick Blocks vanish. This includes the Brick Block the Mushroom came out of. When one player collects the Mushroom, they grow large and must now chase and stomp the other players. This animation takes about two seconds to complete. The remaining players can slow each other down by jumping on, Ground Pounding, and punching each other. The regular players must avoid the enlarged player until they shrink back to normal, at which point another set of Brick Blocks appear and the gameplay loop is repeated.
Instead of moving normally, the giant player can only move in the four cardinal directions, straight lines, only stopping direction once they hit a wall. When they hit a wall, they briefly stagger and cannot move again for a moment. Additionally, the screen shakes. Any normal player hit by the large player while they are running is eliminated from the minigame by being launched up and out of the room. "Mushroom Power-Up" replaces the minigame's music while a player is enlarged.
This minigame has a time limit of 60 seconds. If the giant player eliminates the last regular player in the minigame, the giant player returns to normal and wins. If the timer runs out and there two or more players remaining, it is considered a draw.
Changes in Mario Party: The Top 100 and Mario Party Superstars[edit]
Mario Party Superstars (bottom)
Mario Party: The Top 100 and Mario Party Superstars make several changes to the minigame. The Mushoom is replaced by a Mega Mushroom. When the Brick Block containing the Mega Mushroom is hit, it turns into an Empty Block as it releases the Mega Mushroom before vanishing along with any remaining Brick Blocks. The Mega Mushroom comes out of the block instantly instead of rising out of the block. The Mega Mushroom immediately makes the user grow, making the animation less than half as long than in Mario Party 3. While a player is enlarged, "Mega Mushroom" plays instead of "Mushroom Power-Up". It is no longer a draw if the timer runs out and there two or more players remaining.
The minigame's room is also redesigned. The Mushroom symbol is replaced by a Mega Mushroom, and the walls and other elements in the room now are now made of wooden blocks in various shapes, matching those found in children's playsets. Wooden flowers and bushes also decorate the walls. In Mario Party Superstars, they are briefly thrown upward when an enlarged player collides with a wall, in addition to the screen shaking.
Controls[edit]
Mario Party 3[edit]
– Move
– Jump
– Attack- →
– Ground Pound[a]
- Footnotes
- ^ The Controls section for this minigame does not show this method.
Mario Party: The Top 100[edit]
: Move
: Jump
: Punch- in the air: Ground Pound
Mario Party Superstars[edit]
– Move
– Jump
– Punch- → – Ground Pound
In-game text[edit]
Mario Party 3[edit]
- Game Rules – "Break the blocks to find the Mushroom. Defeat your rivals by crashing into them."
- Advice – "You cannot defeat a player who has powered up. Just run away."
Mario Party: The Top 100[edit]
- Description – "Find the Mega Mushroom hidden in a block and ram into your rivals!"
- On-screen – "Catch the Mega Mushroom and ram into your rivals!"
Mario Party Superstars[edit]
- "Grab the Mega Mushroom and ram into your rivals!"
Gallery[edit]
Background in Mario Party 3
The ending to Toadstool Titan
Naming[edit]
"Mush Pit" is a pun on "mosh pit", an area seen in live music shows where attendees often push each other.
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | みつけろ! パワーキノコ[?] Mitsukero! Pawā Kinoko |
Find it! Power Mushroom! | Mario Party 3 |
| みつけろ！巨大キノコ[?] Mitsukero! Kyodai Kinoko |
Find it! Mega Mushroom! | The Top 100 / Superstars | |
| Chinese | 找出巨大蘑菇！[?] zhǎo chū jù dà mó gū! |
Find Mega Mushroom! | |
| Dutch | Zwammen en rammen[?] | Mushrooms and bashing | |
| French | Champi Colosse[?] | Colossus Mushroom | |
| German | Toads Powerpilz[?] | Toad's Power Mushroom | Mario Party 3 |
| Mega-Pilz-Arena[?] | Mega Mushroom Arena | ||
| Italian | Trova il megafungo[?] | Find the Mega Mushroom | |
| Korean | 찾아라! 거대버섯[?] Chajara! Geodaebeoseot |
Find! Mega Mushroom | |
| Portuguese | Arena do Chute[?] | Kick Arena | |
| Russian | Грибная арена[?] Gribnaya arena |
Mushroom Arena | |
| Spanish (Latin American) | Champisotones[?] | Portmanteau of champiñón (mushroom) and pisotones (stomps) | |
| Spanish (European) | Titán Destructor[?] | Destroyer Titan |
