Coins are gone, and stars are replaced with mini-stars, which are collected several at a time both on the board and in mini-games. Mini-games only start when a mini-game space is landed on (and sometimes at random on blue spaces). Mario Party 9 changed the board game concept to have one vehicle that all the players take turns captaining. The winner(s) of these games are typically awarded with 10 coins (in the first Mario Party, the loser(s) may lose coins), although there are special games where the goal is to collect coins, in which case everyone gets to take however many coins they collected in the game with them. The players are placed on Blue or Red teams based on what spaces they had landed on (Green players are randomly marked Blue or Red) and a roulette begins to pick a game. The basic format of the game has mostly remained the same: Four players (computers filling in if there aren't enough human players) take turns rolling dice to move across one of several themed boards, with the ultimate goal of obtaining Stars, which are classically obtained by a player who reaches a Star Space and buys a star for 20 Coins, after which the Star Space is (usually, but not always) moved to a random location on the board.Īfter all players have had their turn, a mini-game begins. About a dozen Mario Party games have been released so far: eleven on home consoles, one on the Game Boy Advance, one for the e-Reader (actually a non-collectible card game with included minigames), one on the Nintendo DS, two in arcades, and three on the Nintendo 3DS. are playable characters in the Mario Party series. Besides Mario, Luigi, and their friends, some of the enemies from Super Mario Bros. The series combines a digital board game with various competitive mini-games. The series also created arcade adaptations, which are developed by Capcom. It started off developed by Hudson Soft and CAProduction, though Hudson's acquisition by Konami led to 9 and later games being developed by NDcube note which also contains some ex-Hudson Soft developers, developers of Wii Party.
Mario Party is Nintendo's long-running series of multiplayer games for the Nintendo 64, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Wii, DS, 3DS, Wii U, and Switch.
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