Bowser's Warped Orbit

Bowser's Warped Orbit
Battle Royale & Tag Battle Duel Battle & Star Battle Arena
Appears in	Mario Party 8
Availability	Unlocked by completing Star Battle Arena
Description	Hunt...and be hunted! Go on the Star attack in Bowser's twisted realm!
Music sample

“Beyond space! Beyond time! And beyond decency! We're in the blackest hole of all. Bowser's Warped Orbit! It's seriously sick and twisted! We're in Bowser territory now. And you'll play by HIS rules. So you'll start with 5 Stars... Then earn more the Bowser way: Stealing! Steamrolling! Savagery! You'll need two kinds of Candy... Bowser Candy and Bullet Candy! Chow down on these to steal Stars from each player you pass! Bowser Candy lets you smack 2 Dice Blocks, and you'll steal 2 Stars from each victim! Bullet Candy lets you blast farther! You'll get 3 Dice Blocks, but steal only 1 Star per victim. Study where foes are before chowing! Which will steal you more Stars? A short rampage? Or a long snipe?”

—MC Ballyhoo, Mario Party 8

Bowser's Warped Orbit is an unlockable board in Mario Party 8. Unlike previous Bowser-themed boards, this board does not have a lava theme. Instead, is is a space station located above a star. Additionally, Magikoopa and Toadies appear in shops and board events, rather than underlings like Goombas and Koopa Kids. The board's layout is linear except for short branching paths that players are randomly sorted into by the directional buttons.

The objective is to steal Stars from other players, similarly to Snowflake Lake from Mario Party 6 and Pyramid Park from Mario Party 7, but instead of Chain Chomps to steal Stars, players must use board-exclusive Candy to steal Stars from their opponents; Bowser Candy lets the player roll two Dice Blocks and steal two Stars from any opponent they pass, while Bullet Candy lets the player roll three Dice Blocks but only steal one Star from each passed opponent. Landing on a DK Space causes Donkey Kong to appear on a Steel Barrel satellite, and give the player a free Star, adding it to the circulation. Landing on a Bowser Space causes Bowser to come down from his observation tower to steal a Star from the player; if the player has no Stars, Bowser will give them ten Coins instead. This usually removes the Star DK added to the circulation, except if Bowser provided coins.

In Battle Royale, each player starts out with five Stars. In Tag Battle, each team starts out with ten. The handicap can add up to three additional Stars per player or team. One of the Green Space causes Bowser to come down and chase the player all around the board in a complete loop. Anyone that is in their path will also get chased down, essentially moving all the players involved to the same space. The Green Space next to Magikoopa makes him use his magic to shuffle everyone's Candies around, like in Mario Party 5. The Green Spaces next to the Warp Tube causes players to travel through the tube and reach to the other side of the board, always collecting twenty Coins along the way. The other Green Spaces make Bowser reverse the direction of the flow of the board, similarly to Backtrack, a duel board in Mario Party 3. The Lucky Space takes the player to Shy Guy's Space Buffet.

In Duel Battle and Star Battle Arena, the winning condition is to reduce the opponent's star count to 0. Both players start with three Stars each. Green Spaces now exclusively flip the board; the ones next to the Warp Tube are replaced with arrow spaces, with the Warp Tube not giving any coins as a result. Donkey Kong now grants a piece of Bowser Candy or Bullet Candy instead of a Star, although Bowser still steals a Star from the player; they will still lose if their Star count is reduced to 0 this way. Completing the board in the Star Battle Arena will initiate the Last minigame Superstar Showdown; defeating Bowser will unlock the board in the Party Tent as well as Hammer Bro or Blooper, depending on who the opponent was; they are always random unless the player is using one of those two characters, in which case the other one will forcibly be the opponent.

Shy Guy's Space Buffet

Yoshi at Shy Guy's Space Buffet

Shy Guy's Space Buffet is the Lucky Space area of Bowser's Warped Orbit. Captain Shy Guy flies the player here upon them landing on the Lucky Space. This area is quite small, mostly consisting of a few Blue Spaces, each with three coins. Unlike on all other boards with a Lucky Space, Shy Guy's Space Buffet does not lead to a free Star; instead, players get to collect three free pieces of Candy by passing ? Candies, all of which are either Bullet Candy or Bowser Candy. Once the player makes it to the end, Captain Shy Guy takes them back to the Lucky Space.

Spaces

The following tables show how many spaces there are on the board, and how many there are of a certain type.

Battle Royale / Tag Battle

Type of Space	Number of Spaces
Blue Spaces	32
Red Spaces	8
Green Spaces	10
Lucky Spaces	1
DK or Bowser Spaces	2
Total of Spaces	53

Duel Battle / Star Battle Arena

Type of Space	Number of Spaces
Blue Spaces	14
Red Spaces	4
Green Spaces	4
Vs. Spaces	1
Challenge Spaces	1
DK or Bowser Spaces	2
Total of Spaces	26

Candies

• 

  Twice Candy

• 

  Slowgo Candy

• 

  Vampire Candy

• 

  Bullet Candy (board-exclusive)

• 

  Bowser Candy (board-exclusive)

• 

  Duelo Candy¹

¹ - Only obtainable via Chump Charity

Gallery

• 

  Logo

• 
• 

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	クッパのスペースコロシアム[?] Kuppa no Supēsu Koroshiamu	Bowser's Space Colosseum
French	Station Mirobolante de Bowser[?]	Bowser's Whopping Station
German	Bowsers Stahlstern[?]	Bowser's Steel Star
Italian	La stazione orbitante di Bowser[?]	Bowser's Orbit Station
Korean	쿠파의 스페이스콜로세움[?] Kupa-ui Seupeiseu Kollose'um	Bowser's Space Colosseum
Spanish	Galaxia Bowser[?]	Bowser Galaxy