Pool Buoy

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Pool Buoy
Pool Buoy from Mario Party: Island Tour
Appears in Mario Party: Island Tour
Type General minigame
Time limit Aproximately 40 seconds
Music track Pleasantly Moving Along

Pool Buoy (known as Beach Ball Bedlam in British English) is one of the General minigames from Mario Party: Island Tour. The American English name is a pun on the term, "pool boy".

Gameplay

The players are inside beach balls in a circular swimming pool. They can move by sliding the Stylus on the ball on the bottom screen. A Lakitu keeps roaming above them throwing flag buoys for them to collect. Red buoys are worth one point, while golden buoys are worth three. The player with the most points wins the game.

Controls

American English

  • Stylus – Roll the ball to move

British English

  • Stylus – Slide the ball to move.

In-game text

  • RulesAmerican English "Race around the pool, and collect as many flag buoys as possible."
  • RulesBritish English "Collect the flags Lakitu throws."

See also

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
Japanese プールでフラッグあつめ
Pūru de furaggu atsume
Collect Flags at the Pool

Dutch Lakitu's Ballenbad
Lakitu's Ball Bath
German Schwimmbad-Rolleo
 
Italian All'ultima boa
To the last buoy
Portuguese Bolas Flutuantes
Floating Balls
Russian Буря в бассейне
Burya v bacceyne
Storm at the pool. "Буря" is a pun on "буй" (buoy).

Spanish ¡Balones al agua!
Balls In the Water!