Bowser's Big Blast

Template:Minigame-infobox Bowser's Big Blast (stylized as BOWSER's Big Blast) is a battle minigame in Mario Party 2 and returns in Mario Party: The Top 100. The minigame's specific concept, with the Bowser head and the switches, later appears in Mario Party 4, under the name Bowser's Bigger Blast. The Merry-Go-Chomp minigame from Mario Party 3, uses a similar concept to that of this one.

Introduction

A Bowser bomb is screwed into place by a mechanical arm and the camera zooms out. The four characters enter the room it's in and get in line (with the exception of the first player up to press a plunger) while the plungers appear. The minigame then begins.

Gameplay

The game is a luck-based minigame. The players take turns pressing down the plungers connected to a massive Bowser bomb.

The player is safe if a small burst of smoke comes from the bomb's "nostrils", and it detonates if the incorrect one is chosen, eliminating that player; another bomb is then put into place and the game continues. At the beginning there are five plungers of varying colors, and after a player is eliminated, the number decreases until three are left; if all plungers that aren't the detonator are chosen, they are reset.

The last player remaining is the winner.

In Mario Party: The Top 100, the explosion of the bomb is more detailed.

Controls

• / – Move
• / – Press Plunger

In-game text

• Game Rules – "Take turns pressing the plungers. If Bowser blows up on you, you're out. Last one standing wins!"
• Advice – "Just because a plunger detonated Bowser once doesn't mean it will again... Or does it? Give it a try!"

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	クッパだいばくはつ Kuppa Dai Bakuhatsu	Bowser Big Explosion
German	Bumm Bumm-Bowser	Boom Boom Bowser
Italian	Esplosione Bowser	Bowser Explosion
Spanish	Explosión de Bowser	Bowser's Explosion

Trivia

• That giant Bowser head was later also used in Mario Party 5 in the Panic Pinball and Head Waiter minigames.