Mario Party: Difference between revisions

* ''Mario Party DS'' (2007).

* ''Mario Party 9'' (2012).

 

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* [[Always Night]]: Boo's Haunted Bash, King Boo's Haunted Hideaway, and Boo's Horror Castle.

* [[Always Over the Shoulder]]: The tank games.

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: From the first installment:

{{quote|'''Koopa:''' This {{color|yellow|Star}} was broken up by {{color|red|Bowser}}, and he even wrote graffiti all over it! [[And That's Terrible|This cannot be permitted!]]}}

** ''Mario Party 3'' featured Game Guy minigames, where you are forced to wager everything you have and you either [[All or Nothing|win a multiple of what you wagered or lose it all]].

* [[Big Boo's Haunt]]:

** Boo's Haunted Bash from ''4''.

** King Boo's Haunted Hideaway from ''8''.

** Boo's Horror Castle from ''9''.

* [[Big OMG]]: Luigi and Wario in the first game say [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8o9-U3moRw "Oh my God!"] when something really bad happens to them in the Japanese version. This was [[Bowdlerised]] to "Owowowow!" for Luigi, while Wario gets ''"Doh I missed!"'' (sounds a bit like ''[[Mondegreen|"So ein Mist!"]]'', German for "What a mess!") in the English version.

* [[Bonus Space]]: Some of the Happening Spaces might be this, but the Donkey Kong spaces are more likely to have a nice payoff. Then there's the Lucky Spaces in ''Mario Party 8''.

** ''Mario Party 3'': "Stardust Battle".

** ''Mario Party 5'': "Frightmare".

** ''Mario Party 7'': "Bowser's Lovely Lift!"

** ''Mario Party DS'': "Feed and Seed", "Hammer Chime", "Hexoskeleton", "Book Bash", and "Bowser's Block Party".

** ''Mario Party 9'': "Sock It To Lakitu", "Wiggler Bounce", "Whomp Stomp", "Bombard Big Bob-omb", "Deck Dry Bones", "King Boo's Puzzle Attack", "Cheep Cheep Shot", "Blooper Barrage", "Spike Strike", "Chain Chomp Romp", "Bowser Jr. Beatdown", "Bowser's Block Battle", "Diddy's Banana Blast", and "DK's Banana Bonus".

* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]: In-universe, this is the plot of the first game. With all the characters competing to simply prove who is the best among them.

* [[Bubbly Clouds]]:

** Mario's Rainbow Castle from the original.

** Rainbow Dream from ''5''.

* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: An AI-controlled Donkey Kong in ''2'' will repeatedly go for the Bowser Bomb in item games, because he apparently believes he can take on Bowser himself. But unless he has the most stars at the end of the game, he cannot. Expect to lose coins.

* [[Button Mashing]]: Most games require pressing the button as much as possible. Some other games in the original ''Mario Party'' required spinning the control stick. It also damaged the controller, and from reports in [[Nintendo Power]], some gamers' hands (usually the palms, as some took to spinning the stick with the palm of their hand).

** ''Mario Party 7'''s Neon Heights board is a combination of this and Broadway.

** There's also Goomba's Greedy Gala from ''4''.

* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Koopa Kid hasn't made an appearance in either of the two recent games: ''Mario Party 8'' and ''Mario Party DS''. Toadette didn't make her appearance in ''Mario Party 9''.

* [[Climax Boss]]: {{spoiler|Daisy}} and {{spoiler|Waluigi}} in the Story Mode of ''Mario Party 3''.

** Wiggler's Garden from ''DS''.

** Toad Road in ''9''.

* [[Hailfire Peaks]]: Waluigi's Island from ''3'' combines [[Palmtree Panic]] with [[Down in the Dumps]].

* [[Handcar Pursuit]]: A recurring team mini-game is a race between two handcars, where you have to coordinate with your partner to speed up, slow down, and bank around sharp corners.

** The Solo board Infernal Tower from ''6''.

* [[Level Ate]]:

** Sweet Dream from ''5''.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: As the series went on, it started with just six major Mario characters, to having 14, including a few various recurring enemies as characters.

* [[Locomotive Level]]: Shy Guy's Perplex Express from ''8''.

** Chance Time was also removed after some point so that players would have a more fair chance of winning or catching up instead of just winning at the very last possible moment because of a luck based event.

* [[Palmtree Panic]]:

** Pirate Land from ''2''.

** Koopa's Seaside Soiree from ''4''.

** Goomba's Booty Boardwalk from ''8''.

** Blooper Beach from ''9''.

* [[Pinball Zone]]: Bowser's Pinball Machine from ''DS''.

* [[Puzzle Boss]]: The bosses of Mario Party DS.

* [[Space Zone]]:

** Eternal Star from the original.

** Future Dream from ''5''.

** The Solo board Astro Avenue from ''6''.

** Bowser's Warped Orbit from ''8''.

** Bowser Station from ''9''.

* [[Spiritual Successor]]: ''[[Wii Party]]''.

** It should also be noted that this series itself is somewhat of a [[Spiritual Successor]] to the little-known Japanese game ''Getter Love!!''. Both are board games in video game format, have mini-games, have items with which you can get ahead or slow down your opponents, and were developed by [[Hudson Soft]] (though Nintendo still publishes Mario Party).

** Deep Bloober Sea from ''3''.

** Undersea Dream from ''5''.

* [[The Unexpected]]: The biggest example has to be '''Blooper''' (of all characters) joining the party in ''8''.

* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: Whenever someone is defeated in a minigame by something lethal (heck, one minigame in Mario Party 6 has the loser sucked into a black hole), they emerge completely unharmed on the beginning of the next turn (although their finances and self esteem suffer).