Mario Party (series)

The Mario Party series is a virtual board game created by Hudson Soft (Mario Party to Mario Party DS) and by Nd Cube (Mario Party 9, Mario Party: Island Tour, and Mario Party 10). It features a cast of prominent Mario series characters, some of which have been Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Princess Daisy, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Wario, Waluigi, and many more with each game featuring variations on the cast and storyline. The series can be played with four players, but computer controlled players may be selected as well. All of the games share similar gameplay in which the primary objective requires the player to move his or her character across the selected stage to gather a Star. Usually, the player must then pay a fee of twenty coins to the host, a non-playable character such as Toad. After each player has completed his or her turn, a minigame then begins, in which the player may be awarded coins, based on their performance. The rules changed in Mario Party 9, where the objective is to get the most Mini Stars in boards to be the superstar.

At the end of the game, Stars and Bonus Stars will be tallied. The person with the most stars at the end of the game becomes the winner, or in this case, the Superstar. If Stars are tied between players, other statistics will be applied. These include the amount of coins collected, minigame victories, and so on.

The Mario Party series amasses 13 games, across the Nintendo 64, Nintendo GameCube, and Wii consoles, as well as the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS. The series even sports a card game that works with the e-Reader peripheral and has ported previous installments into Japan-only arcade games. The cast of characters, character cameos, and minigames are numerous. Thus far, the series has been very commercially successful, and looks to continue its success.

List of Games

 * Arcade

Boards
The Mario Party series included many board themes in various installments. Below is a list of all of them and what games they appear in.

The four most common themes are forest, island, space, and volcanic, each with seven boards as of Mario Party: Island Tour.

Mario Party

 * This game has 8 boards
 * Cake - Peach's Birthday Cake
 * Castle - Mario's Rainbow Castle
 * Factory - Luigi's Engine Room
 * Island - Yoshi's Tropical Island
 * Jungle - DK's Jungle Adventure
 * Canyon - Wario's Battle Canyon
 * Space - Eternal Star (Unlockable)
 * Volcano - Bowser's Magma Mountain (Unlockable)

Mario Party 2

 * This game has 6 boards
 * Desert - Mystery Land
 * Forest - Horror Land
 * Park - Bowser Land (Unlockable)
 * Ship - Pirate Land
 * Space - Space Land
 * Town - Western Land

Mario Party 3

 * This game has 6 boards
 * Cavern - Creepy Cavern
 * Desert - Spiny Desert
 * Forest - Woody Woods
 * Island - Waluigi's Island (Unlockable)
 * Snowfield - Chilly Waters
 * Underwater - Deep Bloober Sea

Mario Party 4

 * This game has 6 boards
 * Casino - Goomba's Greedy Gala
 * Horror - Boo's Haunted Bash
 * Island - Koopa's Seaside Soiree
 * Jungle - Shy Guy's Jungle Jam
 * Park - Toad's Midway Madness
 * Volcano - Bowser's Gnarly Party (Unlockable)

Mario Party 5
This game has 7 boards
 * Cake - Sweet Dream
 * Castle - Rainbow Dream
 * Cloudy Sky - Rainbow Dream
 * Park - Toy Dream
 * Peak - Pirate Dream
 * Ship - Pirate Dream
 * Space - Future Dream
 * Underwater - Undersea Dream
 * Volcanic - Bowser Nightmare (Unlockable)

Mario Party 6

 * This game has 9 boards (6 in party mode and 3 in solo mode)
 * Castle - Clockwork Castle, Infernal Tower (Solo)
 * Desert - Thirsty Gulch (Solo)
 * Factory - E. Gadd's Garage
 * Forest - Towering Treetop
 * Island - Castaway Bay
 * Snowfield - Snowflake Lake
 * Space - Astro Avenue (Solo)
 * Town - Faire Square
 * Volcano - Infernal Tower (Solo)

Mario Party 7

 * This game has 6 boards
 * Desert - Pyramid Park
 * Forest - Windmillville
 * Park - Bowser's Enchanted Inferno! (Unlockable)
 * Peak - Pagoda Peak
 * Ship - Grand Canal
 * Town - Grand Canal, Neon Heights
 * Volcanic - Bowser's Enchanted Inferno! (Unlockable)

Mario Party 8

 * This game has 6 boards
 * Jungle - DK's Treetop Temple
 * Island - Goomba's Booty Boardwalk
 * Horror - King Boo's Haunted Hideaway
 * Railway - Shy Guy's Perplex Express
 * Space - Bowser's Warped Orbit (Unlockable)
 * Town - Koopa's Tycoon Town

Mario Party 9

 * This game has 7 boards
 * Castle - Boo's Horror Castle
 * Casino - Bowser Station (Unlockable)
 * Cavern - Magma Mine
 * Factory - Bob-omb Factory
 * Forest - Toad Road
 * Horror - Boo's Horror Castle
 * Island - Blooper Beach
 * Jungle - DK's Jungle Ruins (Unlockable)
 * Railway - Magma Mine
 * Space - Bowser Station (Unlockable)
 * Underwater - Blooper Beach
 * Volcanic - Magma Mine

Mario Party 10

 * Park - unnamed board
 * Cloudy Sky - unnamed board

Mario Party DS

 * This game has 5 boards
 * Casino - Bowser's Pinball Machine (Unlockable)
 * Forest - Wiggler's Garden
 * Jungle - DK's Stone Statue
 * Library - Kamek's Library
 * Music - Toadette's Music Room

Mario Party: Island Tour

 * This game has seven boards
 * Forest - Perilous Palace Path
 * Peak - Banzai Bill's Mad Mountain
 * Cloudy Sky - Star-Crossed Skyway
 * Space - Rocket Road
 * Horror - Kamek's Carpet Ride
 * Library - Kamek's Carpet Ride
 * Casino - Shy Guy's Shuffle City
 * Volcanic - Bowser's Peculiar Peak (Unlockable)

Playable Characters
Playable characters are introduced in the first Mario Party. During the first two Mario Party games, Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Wario, Yoshi, and Donkey Kong are the only playable characters. Starting in Mario Party 3, the game introduces new playable characters in debut such as Princess Daisy and Waluigi, the new playable characters are only playable in the Party Mode; the previous new characters that appear in the next game are now playable in the Story Mode. There are some exceptions in games like Mario Party Advance and Mario Party DS do not introduce new characters.

There are some exceptions of removing playable characters in later main games; Donkey Kong is removed starting in Mario Party 5 because he now owns a space called a DK Space which he hosts, although Donkey Kong is playable in the Special Duel Mode in Mario Party 5 and is replaced by Toad. Another playable character named Koopa Kid (Mini Bowser in PAL regions) appeared in Mario Party 5 and Mario Party 6; he was removed after the last appearance because he now owns a space called the Koopa Kid Space. In Mario Party 9, Boo, Dry Bones, Blooper, and Hammer Bro were removed and given supporting roles. Toadette was also removed, and was completely absent from the game and was also absent in Mario Party: Island Tour. However, Boo returned in Mario Party: Island Tour as a playable character, and is the only character to do so making Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Wario, Yoshi, Princess Daisy, Waluigi, and Toad the only eight playable characters to never be removed in later main games. Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Yoshi are the only characters to appear in all of the installments. Wario appeared in all of the installments except for Mario Party Advance and Daisy and Waluigi appeared in all of the installments except for the first two Mario Party games and Mario Party Advance.

In the game Beach Volley Folley that appeared in Mario Party 4 and then Mario Party 5, there are exceptionally playable characters that can not be played as on the normal boards but are able to participate in this game.

The Mario Party series included many characters in various installments. Below is a list of all of them and what games they appear in.


 * Check_mark.svg – Playable character
 * X_mark.svg – Non-playable character
 * Question.svg – Unknown status


 * 1 — The character is playable only in Beach Volley Folley.
 * 2 — The character is playable only in Super Duel Mode.
 * 3 — The character is only playable in Party Mode.
 * 4 — The character is playable only in the Extra Mode.
 * 5 — The character is only playable in Bowser Party.
 * 6 — The character is unlockable.

Hosts
These characters lead each individual Mario Party game.
 * Mario Party: Toad, Koopa Troopa, and Koopa Kid (only in Eternal Star).
 * Mario Party 2: Toad and Koopa Kid (only in Bowser Land)
 * Mario Party 3: Tumble and Millennium Star
 * Mario Party 4: Toad, Shy Guy, Boo, Koopa Troopa, Goomba, Koopa Kid, Thwomp (only in Extras Mode), Whomp (only in Extras Mode), and Ztar (only in Beach Volley Folley)
 * Mario Party 5: Star Spirits
 * Mario Party 6: Brighton and Twila
 * Mario Party Advance: Toad, Toadette, Tumble, and Professor E. Gadd
 * Mario Party 7: Toadsworth
 * Mario Party 8: MC Ballyhoo & Big Top
 * Mario Party DS: Wiggler, Toadette, Diddy Kong, Kamek and Bowser.
 * Mario Party 9: Yellow Toad (Party, Solo, and Museum) and Blue Toad (Minigames and Extras)
 * Mario Party: Island Tour: Yellow Toad (Party), Bowser (only in Bowser's Peculiar Peak and Bowser's Tower), Blue Toad (Minigames, StreetPass Minigames, and Collectables), and Green Toad (Bowser's Tower)

Spaces
All the spaces in the Mario Party games.

Items
Every item, capsule, orb, candy, hex and card from the series.

List of All Minigames
The Mario Party series' popularity is due in no small part to its minigames. Throughout the series' nine console titles, the list of minigames has become tremendous. Below is a list of all 769 minigames, separated by game. The minigames' titles generally rhyme, use alliteration, or are puns of popular phrases.

Awards

 * Longest Running Mini-Game Series - Guinness Book of World Records Gamer's Edition 2009 - 2013

Trivia

 * Luigi mentions the Mario Party series in his diary in the events of Paper Mario.
 * The Mario Party games are mentioned in one of the Coin Block/Brick Block cards in Nintendo Monopoly. Here, the player gets $50 from every player for organizing a Mario Party in the 2006 version, and $10 in the 2010 version.
 * Mario Party 8 has the most amount of playable characters of all Mario Party games to date, with 14 (if Mii is not counted). Mario Party Advance has the least, with only four.
 * Mario Party 9 is the only main game in the series (when the handheld installments aren't counted) to have a smaller amount of playable characters than its predecessor.
 * All 6 original playable characters in Mario Party and Mario Party 2 have appeared in the Super Smash Bros. games as playable characters (Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and Donkey Kong since Smash 64, Peach since Melee, and Wario since Brawl).
 * In addition, no newcomers from the later Mario Party console installments have been playable in a Smash Bros game yet.
 * Every numbered installment of the Mario Party series on the same console as the previous numbered Mario Party installment has had more mini-games than it's numbered predecessor.

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