Skyjinks

Skyjinks
Free-for-All version Perspective Mode version
Appears in	Mario Party 9
Type	Free-for-All minigame
Music	Jump-Jump-Jumping

Skyjinks is a Free-for-All minigame in Mario Party 9. The name is a portmanteau of "sky" and "hijinx."

Introduction

The introduction

The players are seen jumping on platforms. Landing on wooden boards, the characters stop and the minigame begins.

Gameplay

The players must travel through an auto-scrolling obstacle course in the sky without falling off the course. Players who fall lose a heart, are placed inside a bubble, and are brought back onto the course at a random point; players are eliminated if they fall with no hearts remaining. As they proceed along the course, the platforms toward the back fall offscreen.

The first area contains many rotating circular platforms, with the second containing a set of plus- and T-shaped blocks, some of which rotate as well. The third and final section stretch has bouncy clouds and rotating platforms that lead to the goal platform; the first player to reach it wins.

In Perspective Mode, the camera is in "tracking" mode behind the player, and the screen does not automatically scroll. Additionally, players are immediately eliminated if they fall off the course.

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  Part 2

In-game text

• Rules (Normal) – "Make your way across floating platforms toward the goal. If you fall, you'll lose a heart. If you have any hearts remaining, you'll return to the platforms."
• Rules (Perspective Mode) – "Make your way across floating platforms toward the goal. If you fall, you lose."
• Controls – "Hold the Wii Remote sideways. Press to move and to jump."

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	進め!スカイロード Susume! Sukairōdo	Advanced! Sky Road
Spanish (NOA)	Aventura en las alturas	Adventure in the Heights
Spanish (NOE)	Carrera de altura	Race of height
French	Rebonds coton	Can be translated as either "Cotton bounces" or "Tricky bounces"
German	Himmelswettlauf	Sky Race
Italian	Saltanuvole	Cloud Jumper
Chinese	空中大道競走 Kōngzhōng dàdào jìngzǒu	Sky Road Walk-Race

See also

• Platform Peril
• Sick and Twisted