Quickest Cricket

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Quickest Cricket
Quickest Cricket from Mario Party: Island Tour
Appears in Mario Party: Island Tour
Type General minigame
Time limit 60 seconds
Music track Ominous footsteps... (NTSC)/Footsteps! (PAL)
Music sample

Quickest Cricket (Grasshopalong in the British English version) is a General minigame from Mario Party: Island Tour.

Overview[edit]

The players must race each other to the finish line mounting mechanical crickets/grasshoppers, while avoiding rocks, Piranha Plants, and Wigglers. The first player to get to the goal wins.

This game is also available in Time Attack as the sixth minigame. The bonus objective is achieved by not hitting any obstacles.

Controls[edit]

  • Pull back and release Circle Pad – Move

In-game text[edit]

  • Rules – American English: "Race to the finish atop a mechanical cricket."
  • Rules – British English: "Navigate your mechanical grasshopper through the course to reach the finish line."

Naming[edit]

The British name "Grasshopalong" is a portmanteau of "grasshopper" and "hop along".

Names in other languages[edit]

LanguageNameMeaningNote(s)Ref.
Japaneseぴょんぴょんバッタレース
Pyonpyon Batta Rēsu		Hopping Locust Race[1]
DutchSprinkhaanbaanGrasshopper Track[1]
French (Canada)Cavalcade en criquetsLocust ride[1]
French (Europe)Criquets en cavaleLocusts on the run[1]
GermanGrashüpfenGrasshopping[1]
ItalianGrilli saltantiJumping crickets[1]
Korean폴짝폴짝 메뚜기 레이스
Poljjak-poljjak Mettugi Reiseu		Hopping Grasshopper Race[1]
Portuguese (Europe)Corrida de GafanhotosGrasshopper Race[1]
RussianСкачки на саранче
Skachki na saranche		Jumps/horseracing on a locust[1]
Spanish (Latin America)Carrera de grillosCricket race[1]
Spanish (Europe)SaltacrossPun on saltamontes ("grasshopper") and cross ("cross country")[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k In-game name from Mario Party: Island Tour (stored internally as mg_inst_mg3428_0001 in message file mg_inst.msbt in archive languages/[language].zdat).
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Minigames from Mario Party: Island Tour
General minigames Amp My Style • Blown Hover • Bob-omb Aplomb • Bumper Thumper • Buzz a Fuzzy • Cannonball! • Cheep Diamonds • Cheepers Keepers • Claiming the Cube • Color Correction • Color Me Fast • Deck Hunt • Diamond a Dozen • Drive for Show • Fisticlouds • Flip Out • Fuel Me Once • Garden of Eatin' • Get Reel • Git Along, Goomba • Go with the Floe • Goomba to Maneuver • Great Bars of Fire • Grid is Good • Gyro for the Gold • Hare Today • Helter Shellter • Hide 'n' Splat • Hop Till You Drop • Horror Harriers • Kabob and Weave • Mad Ladders • Magmathon • Match Faker • Meteor Melee • Mild Gunman • Musical Snares • No-Traction Action • Pachinko Wizard • Paddle Skedaddle • Peep a Peepa • Point 'n' Shoot • Pokey Corral • Pool Buoy • Puzzle Pronto • Quickest Cricket • Rat-a-tat Flat • Rope a Slope • Shrub Hubbub • Sky'd and Seek • Slip Not • Slip 'n' Slip • Slow G • Slow Glide • Spin and Bear It • Spin the Bubble • Squish You Were Here • Starring Artist • Stretch Run • Sub Trouble • Tanks a Lot • Tap Dash • Tile Savvy • Top This • Tragic Carpet Ride • Trounce 'n' Bounce • Truckin' and Cluckin' • Utter Nonsense • Xylophone Home
Boss minigames Bowser's Sky Scuffle • Chain Chomp's Lava Lunge • Dry Bowser's Brain Bonk • Goomba Tower Takedown • King Bob-omb's Court of Chaos • Mr. Blizzard's Snow Slalom
Puzzle minigames Emergency Hexit • Emergency Hexit - Multiplayer • Star Turn • Three House • Three House - Multiplayer
Extra minigames The Choicest Voice • Ka-Goomba! • Sinking Feeling • Sinking Feeling - Multiplayer
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