Mario Party

Mario Party is a video game based on a board game, and the first of the expansive Mario Party series. Players choose one of six characters and move around the board. As they go around, they collect coins and various other items that can help them or hinder others in their quest to collect Stars. Twenty coins are required to buy a star.

What sets this game apart from others is the mini-games that follow each round. The players will be grouped together in groups of two, three against one, or everyone for themselves. They then compete in a game that tests their reflexes, puzzle solving skills, or plain luck. The winners will be awarded coins and the losers may lose coins.

However, being good at the game isn't enough to win. Luck is also important. It's possible to go from first to last in a single turn if another character is lucky.

Playable Characters and their colors

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The cast of Mario Party.

• Mario - Red
• Luigi - Green
• Yoshi - Light Green
• Peach - Pink
• Wario - Purple
• Donkey Kong - Brown

Boards

The original Mario Party had eight game boards, more than any other game to date (and not counting the Duel boards from Mario Party 3).

• DK's Jungle Adventure
• Peach's Birthday Cake
• Yoshi's Tropical Island
• Wario's Battle Canyon
• Luigi's Engine Room
• Mario's Rainbow Castle
• Bowser's Magma Mountain
• Eternal Star

Spaces

• Blue Space – Players will gain 3 Coins, but will gain 6 Coins for the Last 5 Turns.
• Red Space – Players will lose 3 Coins, but will lose 6 Coins for the Last 5 Turns.
• ? Space – A variety of things will happen as the surprise is half the fun.
• Star Space – When the player lands here, he will talk to Toad about getting a Star if he has at least 20 Coins, but if he has less than 20 coins, he will not get a Star.
• Mini-Game Space – The player that lands here will play a 1-Player Mini-Game.
• Chance Time Space – The player that lands here will play Chance Time and hit three blocks and at the end, the chosen players step in and a player will take the other player's Coins or Stars or they will trade Coins or Stars.
• Mushroom Space – The Mushroom Block appears and if the Mushroom appears, he will take another turn, or if the Poison Mushroom appears, he will lose his next turn.

Mini-games

See Mario Party (mini-games).

Mario Party Staff

This is a long list of people who worked on this game.

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Game Director:

Kenji Kikuchi [edit]

Planning Director:

Tsutomu Komiyama [edit]

Planners:

Advanture Boards: Fumihisa Sato [edit]

Planners:

Mini-Games: Rie Fujita, Daisuke Yokoo, Hideyuki Kubota and Katsumi Miyashita [edit]

Planning Advisors:

Shinichi Nakata

Shuichiro Nishiya [edit]

Programming Director:

Hideki Sahashi [edit]

Chief Programmers:

Mini-Games: Kazuhiro Matsushita [edit]

Chief Programmers:

Adventure Boards: Syunsuke Tanaka [edit]

Programmers:

Mini-Games:

Isao Kobayashi Hiroyuki Makabe Satoshi Ezaki Atsuko Koike Yoshikazu Kita Yukio Ohde Akira Matsumoto Norifumi Hira Kazuhiko Hagihara Tetsuma Yoshida Hidekazu Matsunouchi Norio Suzuki Tomohiko Shiraishi [edit]

Programmers:

Adventure Boards:

Masahide Tomita Noriyuki Tanabe Takuya Hiraizumi Shinji Shibasaki [edit]

Design Director: Yukinori Goto [edit]

Planning Designers:

Adventure Boards:

Kikuko Nagasawa Hideki Yamaguchi [edit]

Planning Designers:

Mini-Games:

Mayu Inaida [edit]

Planning Designers:

System:

Takuya Aoyama Hiroshi Kaieda [edit]

Designers:

Mini-Games:

Hiroshi Hayashi Akinobu Sekiguchi Akemi Ihara Satoshi Fukuda Takahiro Karino Keisuke Izaki Kanako Uto Akira Katagi Hiroyo Yokozawa [edit]

Designers:

Adventure Boards:

Kayo Fujimoto Masahide Inaba Takaaki Yukita [edit]

Designers:

Characters:

Yasuaki Takahashi Keisuke Kasahara Yuji Yano [edit]

Designers:

System:

Hisao Okada Rie Ueshima [edit] Design Support Akihiro Shibata Tomomi Tada Kaori Nishio Masako Funaki Mika Kakutani Hiromi Sugiue Toshinori Fujii Yuki Tanba [edit]

Design Advisor:

Koji Matsuura [edit]

Original Characters:

Shigeru Miyamoto Hiroji Kiyotake [edit]

Original 3D Modeling:

Nintendo EAD [edit]

Sound Directors: Toshiaki Takimoto Akihiro Sato [edit]

Music:

Hironao Yamamoto Syohei Bando Kazuhiko Sawaguchi Yasunori Mitsuda [edit]

Music Programmer:

Hiromichi Furuya [edit]

Sound Effects:

Osamu Narita Masato Aihara Hiroyuki Tsuboguchi [edit]

Sound Advisor:

Toshiyuki Sasagawa [edit]

Sound Programmers:

Takayuki Iwabuchi Hideki Oka [edit]

Voice Actors:

Charles Martinee as Mario, Luigi and Wario

Asako Kozuki as Princess Peach

Eriko Ibe as Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Toad, Koopa Troopa and Bowser [edit]

Technical Support:

Takahiro Haga Shinobu Kumaoka Takashi Miura Fumihiko Itagaki Miyuki Kawashima [edit]

Graphic Support:

Yoichi Kotabe Masanori Sato [edit]

Sound Support:

Koji Kondo [edit]

Progress Management:

Toshinori Oyama [edit]

Package Illustrator:

Ross Hirai [edit]

Manual Editor:

Bill Trinen Michelle Powers [edit]

Localization:

Bill Trinen Michelle Powers [edit]

Special Thanks To: Naruhisa Kawano Makoto Kano Masamichi Fujiwara Rob Johnson Teresa Lillygren Yukiko Mikami Masako Ishikawa Tadayuki Kawada Ritch Wilson Kunihiko Osamu Tsujikawa Hiroyuki Arai All Nintendo NOA Treehouse All Hudson Super Mario Club Staff [edit]

Product Manager:

Atsushi Ikeda [edit]

Coordinator:

Akihiro Wakabayashi Hiroshi Sato [edit] Supervisors Shigeru Miyamoto Hidetoshi Endo [edit]

Producers:

Shinji Hatano Shinichi Nakamoto [edit]

Executive Producers:

Hiroshi Yamauchi Hiroshi Kudo [edit]

Trivia

• The Dice Block that Mario is hitting on the cover of the game shows a 3, leading many gamers to mistakenly believe that this game was Mario Party 3 after the third game was released.

• Mario Kart Slot Cars, a promotion for Mario Kart DS, appear to be inspired by the Slot Car Derby mini-game.

• There are items called Event Blocks.

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