Mario Party (series)

The Mario Party series, which first started in 1998 with Mario Party for the Nintendo 64, is a spinoff series of party games within the . The hosts over the games are Toadsworth (7), MC Ballyhoo & Big Top (8), Star Spirits (5), Twila & Brighton (6), Yellow Toad, Blue Toad, Toad, Koopa, Goomba, Boo, Shy Guy, Koopa Kid, Millennium Star (3), and Toadette.
In the games, players run across digital game boards as classic Mario characters, collecting Coins, items, and eventually Stars. The game is divided into turns, usually ten to fifty. At the end of each turn, a minigame is played, and the winner receives a small Coin bonus. Whoever has the most Stars and/or Coins at the end will win.
==Party Mode==
Every game in the main series has a standard Party Mode in which up to four players play through a board, attempting to collect as many Stars as possible. In every turn, each player rolls a Dice Block and progresses on the board, with branching paths. Coins are primarily earned by performing well in a minigame played at the end of each turn. On most boards, players earn Stars by reaching a star space and purchasing a Star for a certain amount of Coins. The Star space appears randomly on one of several pre-determined locations and moves every time a Star is purchased, usually occupying a blue space.
Every Mario Party contains at least 50 to about 115 minigames with multiple different types. Four-player games are a free-for-all in which players compete individually. In 2-on-2 and 1-on-3 minigames, players compete as two groups, cooperating to win, even though they are still competing individually in the main game. Some minigames in Mario Party 1 are 4-player co-op, even though it does not say it. In most situations, winners earn ten Coins each.
Battle minigames first appeared in Mario Party 2. These games are similar to 4-player games but are often more elaborate. Instead of winners earning ten Coins each, each player contributes a randomly selected number of Coins (or all coins if the player falls short of the pot amount). The winner of the minigame receives 70% of the pot, the second-place winner receives the other 30%, and a random player occasionally gets a coin leftover from rounding. Coins distribution will change in the case of a tie.
Duel minigames also debuted in Mario Party 2, and were omitted in Mario Party 4 (though the Story minigames were all duels), but returned in Mario Party 5. Duel games pit two players against each other. In Party Mode, one player initiates the duel, wagering Coins or even a star against another player. The winner of the duel receives all coins or stars wagered. Starting with Mario Party 7, the player no longer chooses the wager in a duel, rather, the duel takes place and the prize to the winner, if any, is randomly determined.
==Minigame Mode==
In addition to Party mode, every Mario Party has a minigame mode in which minigames are played with the board game. Minigame modes vary from game to game, but later games have many different variations. In one such example from Mario Party 7, each player tries to fill a board with as many spaces as possible in his or her color by winning minigames.
==Spaces==
===Blue Space===
If players land here, they are given three Coins.
===Red Space===
Landing on this space has players lose three Coins.
===Star Space===
If players reach the Star Space, they may purchase a Star for twenty Coins. Though, other conditions may apply for other boards.
===Bowser Space===
If players land here, something unlucky is likely to happen. Options include playing a Bowser minigame, giving everyone all the same amount of coins. Someone may even lose a Star or Coins and be given to others.
===Donkey Kong Space===
If players land here, they may play a Donkey Kong-based minigame.
===Chance Space===
When players land here, events such as switching directions with another player or doubling spaces may occur.
===Happening Space===
When players land on this space, an event triggers causing either lucky or unlucky events to occur to players.
===Big Boo===
When players pass Big Boo, he steals Coins for fifteen coins from all players or steals a Star for the cost of 150 Coins.
Regular Boos will steal a coin from a player for five coins and a Star for fifty.
==Trivia==
*Mario Party 1, 2, 3, 4, Advance, DS, Star Rush, The Top 100, and Superstars are the nine installments in the series (counting both the home console and handheld games) to have only playable protagonists. That is, not counting Mario, Wario, Waluigi, Birdo, and Donkey Kong who have been both a protagonist and a villain. (Counting just the home console games, Mario Party 1, 2, 3, 4, and Superstars are the four installments which only have playable protagonists.) 
**Mario was a villain in Donkey Kong Junior (1986) (being the main antagonist of the said game), Donkey Kong was a villain in the Donkey Kong (1986) (being the main antagonist of the original Donkey Kong), and Birdo appeared as an enemy in Super Mario Bros. 2 (and its GBA reissue Super Mario Advance 1: Super Mario Bros. 2). 
**Most of the games have playable protagonists. However, there are thirteen villain characters --counting Goomba, Shy Guy, Koopa Troopa, and Monty Mole-- who have been playable characters (in all home console games from Mario Party 5 through Super Mario Party Jamboree --except for Mario Party Superstars). (There are thirteen antagonists, if counting Kamek in Mario Party 9 too.) That is, including Koopa Kid/Bowser Jr., Boo, Dry Bones, Hammer Bro, Blooper, Spike, Pom Pom, and Ninji. (The other fourteen characters are all playable protagonists including Mario, Luigi, Peach, Wario, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Daisy, Waluigi, Toad, Toadette, Birdo, Diddy Kong, Rosalina, and Pauline. That is, not counting Mario, Wario, Waluigi, Birdo, and Donkey Kong who have been both a protagonist and a villain.) The first two playable antagonists (in the series) are Boo and Koopa Kid/Bowser Jr.. 
***Goomba, Shy Guy, and Koopa Troopa have appeared as playable characters in Mario Party 9 through Super Mario Party Jamboree (except for Mario Party 10 and Superstars). Kamek was only playable in Mario Party 9. 
***Interestingly, Boo is the only antagonist who has been a playable character in every home console game to date beginning with Mario Party 5 and through Super Mario Party and Super Mario Party Jamboree (except for Mario Party 9, 10, and Superstars). 
****This does not include Koopa Kid/Bowser Jr.. That is, despite the fact that Boo and Koopa Kid/Bowser Jr. are the first two playable antagonists. (He --Bowser Jr.-- is not considered the second antagonist to be playable in every home console game after Boo.) That is, as Koopa Kid was playable in Mario Party 5 and 6, became a space character in Mario Party 7, and did not return in Mario Party 8. In Mario Party DS and onward, he was succeeded by Bowser Jr.. And in the home console games --Super Mario Party and Super Mario Party Jamboree-- Bowser Jr. (the successor to Koopa Kid) is a playable character. 
**While not all the characters are playable in every home console game --including Super Mario Party Jamboree-- there are twenty seven characters (fourteen playable protagonists and thirteen antagonists). 
== Games ==
*Mario Party (Nintendo 64, 1998)
*Mario Party 2 (Nintendo 64, 1999)
*Mario Party 3 (Nintendo 64, 2000)
*Mario Party 4 (Nintendo GameCube, 2002)
*Mario Party-e (Game Boy Advance e-Reader, 2003)
*Mario Party 5 (Nintendo GameCube, 2003)
*Mario Party 6 (Nintendo GameCube, 2004)
*Mario Party Advance (Game Boy Advance, 2005)
*Mario Party 7 (Nintendo GameCube, 2005)
*Mario Party 8 (Wii, 2007)
*Mario Party DS (Nintendo DS, 2007)
*Mario Party 9 (Wii, 2012)
*Mario Party: Island Tour (Nintendo 3DS, 2013)
*Mario Party 10 (Wii U, 2015)
*Mario Party: Star Rush (Nintendo 3DS, 2016)
*Mario Party: The Top 100 (Nintendo 3DS, 2017)
*Super Mario Party (Nintendo Switch, 2018)
*Mario Party Superstars (Nintendo Switch, 2021)
*Super Mario Party Jamboree (Nintendo Switch, 2024)
== Logos ==
MP1Logo.png|Mario Party (1998)
MP2Logo.png|Mario Party 2 (1999)
MP3Nav.png|Mario Party 3 (2000)
MP4Logo.png|Mario Party 4 (2002)
Mario Party-e logo.png|Mario Party-e (2003)
MP5Logo.png|Mario Party 5 (2003)
Mario Party 6 Logo.png|Mario Party 6 (2004)
Mario Party Advance Logo.png|Mario Party Advence (2005)
Mario Party 7 Logo.png|Mario Party 7 (2005)
MP8 in-game logo.png|Mario Party 8 (2007)
Mario Party DS Logo.png|Mario Party DS (2007)
MP9Logo.png|Mario Party 9 (2012)
Mario Party Island Tour Logo.png|Mario Party: Island Tour (2013)
Mario Party 10 Logo.png|Mario Party 10 (2015)
MPSRLogo.png|Mario Party: Star Rush (2016)
MPTT100Logo.png|Mario Party: The Top 100 (2017)
Super Mario Party logo.png|Super Mario Party (2018)
MPS Logo.png|Mario Party Superstars (2021)
Super Mario Party Jamboree logo.png|Super Mario Party Jamboree (2024)
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