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Encyclopedia > Mario Party 8
Mario Party 8
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Developer Hudson Soft
Publisher Nintendo
Released Flag of the United States May 29, 2007[1]
Flag of Europe June 22, 2007
Flag of Australia July 19, 2007[2]
Flag of Japan July 26, 2007
Flag of the United Kingdom August 3, 2007[3]
Genre Party
Mode(s) Single player, Multiplayer
Ratings ESRB: E (Everyone)
OFLC: G
USK: 6+
PEGI: 3+
Platform(s) Wii
Media 1x Wii Optical Disc

Mario Party 8 (マリオパーティ 8 Mario Pāti Eito?) is a video game for Nintendo's Wii. It is the tenth in the series (eleventh in Japan) and the first to be released on the Wii. Image File history File linksMetadata Mario_Party_8. ... A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video games. ... Hudson Soft is a Japanese publisher and developer, founded on May 18, 1973. ... Nintendo Company, Limited (任天堂 or ニンテンドー Nintendō; NASDAQ: NTDOY, TYO: 7974 usually referred to as simply Nintendo, or Big N ) is a multinational corporation founded on September 23, 1889[1] in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 149th day of the year (150th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... is the 200th day of the year (201st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Japan. ... is the 207th day of the year (208th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... is the 215th day of the year (216th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Video games are categorized into genres based on their gameplay. ... For the 1970s Canadian TV game show, see Party Game (game show). ... In computer games and video games, single-player refers to the variant of a particular game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session. ... A multiplayer game is a video game in which more than one person can play the same game at the same time. ... The ESRBs logo. ... The Office of Film and Literature Classification is a statutory censorship and classification body which provides day to day administrative support for the Classification Board which classified films, video games and publications in Australia, and the Classification Review Board which reviews films, computer games and publications when a valid application... ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... PEGIs logo Pan European Game Information, or more commonly PEGI, is a European system for rating the content of computer and video games, and other entertainment software. ... In computing, a platform describes some sort of framework, either in hardware or software, which allows software to run. ... The Wii (pronounced as the pronoun we, IPA: ) is the fifth home video game console released by Nintendo. ... The Wii (pronounced as the pronoun we, IPA: ) is the fifth home video game console released by Nintendo. ... Computer and video games redirects here. ... Nintendo Company, Limited (任天堂 or ニンテンドー Nintendō; NASDAQ: NTDOY, TYO: 7974 usually referred to as simply Nintendo, or Big N ) is a multinational corporation founded on September 23, 1889[1] in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. ... The Wii (pronounced as the pronoun we, IPA: ) is the fifth home video game console released by Nintendo. ... Mario Party is a popular multi-player game featuring Mario series characters in which four human- or computer-controlled characters compete in a board game with interspersed mini-games, featuring characters in the Mario universe. ...

Contents

Story

According to the Mario Party 8 storyline, the "Star Carnival" has rolled into town. MC Ballyhoo (the main host) along with Big Top, Ballyhoo's talking top hat, challenges everyone to the "Star Battle", in which the winner is crowned "Superstar" and wins a year's worth of candy with a relic called the Star Rod. However, Bowser appears to steal the Star Rod, and it is up to the player to save the Star Carnival.


Gameplay

During the standard game, four different characters compete on one of six themed boards. When playing with fewer than four humans, players select which characters the computer will control, as well as their difficulty level and handicap. Players take turns rolling dice and moving across the game board, with the goal being to amass as many stars as possible within the alloted turn limit.


Towards the end of the game, during the last five turns, gameplay is altered slightly. This can include events such as coins being awarded to the player in last place, as well as additional coins being placed on each space. After the game has ended, three Bonus Stars (which can be enabled or disabled as a game option) may be awarded to players for various feats during play. Finally, the player with the most stars is declared the winner, with the number of coins possessed used as a tiebreaker.


Additional game modes allow players to directly compete in minigames without making use of the game board. Several of these modes tie a number of minigames together, with each minigame won moving the winning player closer to victory.


Boards

While some of the game boards are classic Mario Party in nature, with players attempting to reach locations where 20 coins can be traded for a star, others are more varied. For example, "Koopa's Tycoon Town" involves players investing coins into hotels (ala Monopoly) in order to earn stars, with each hotel only providing stars to the player with the highest current investment. Monopoly is the best-selling commercial board game in the world. ...


As always, all boards include a number of random elements which can greatly influence the course of the game. Notable for this is "Shy Guy's Perplex Express", where the train cars which make up the game board can be re-ordered as the result of landing on a certain space, completely changing the relative positions of all players.


Minigames

At the heart of Mario Party 8 are the minigames, with one taking place at least once per turn. A number of the minigames rely on the unique capabilities of the Wii Remote, while others instead require players to hold the controller sideways and use only the buttons. The Wii Remote, also nicknamed Wiimote, is the primary controller for Nintendos Wii console. ...


There are eight different types of minigames: 4 player "everyone for themselves", 1 vs. 3, 2 vs. 2, Battle, Duel, Challenge, Extra, and Last.


Playable characters

Main article: Mario Party (series)#Playable characters

The characters from the old games are Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Wario, Waluigi, Yoshi, Birdo, Dry Bones, Boo, Toad, and Toadette.There are 2 new characters Blooper and Hammer Bro. have been added to the character roster, providing a total of 14 playable characters. Players can also use Miis in any Extras Zone minigames which have been unlocked, although Miis are not otherwise usable. Mario Party is a popular multi-player game featuring Mario series characters in which four human- or computer-controlled characters compete in a board game with interspersed mini-games, featuring characters in the Mario universe. ... For other uses of the word Mii and the acronym MII, see MII. A Mii (IPA: []) is a digital avatar created by Nintendo for the Wiis Mii Channel. ...


Voice actors

Charles Martinet, voice of Mario Charles Martinet (born September 17, 1955, in San Jose, California) is a voice actor, best known for providing the voice of Mario, the star of Nintendos flagship video game franchise. ... Mario ) is a video game character created by Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and the official mascot of Nintendo. ... This article is about the Nintendo character. ... Wario ) is a video game character created by Nintendo. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into List of Mario series enemies. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... // This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. ... Kazumi Totaka , born 1967) is a music composer for many major Nintendo games, including Mario Paint and Animal Crossing. ... This article is about the Nintendo character Yoshi. ... Bowser may mean: Bowser, British Columbia, an unincorporated community on Vancouver Island Bowser and Blue Bowser and Blitz from King Bowser, a Nintendo character The above characters enhanced form, Giga Bowser The above characters youngest apparent son, Bowser, Jr. ... Takashi Nagasako (長嶝 高士 Nagasako Takashi, born February 24, 1964) is a seiyū who was born in Yamagata. ... For the video game, see Donkey Kong (video game). ... Issac Marshall is a famous voice actor who provided the voices of numerous characters for video games. ... Birdo, known in Japan as Catherine ), is a fictional, anthropomorphic dinosaur-like creature featured in Nintendos Mario series of video games. ... Princess Peach (formerly known as Princess Toadstool outside Japan), is a video game character in Nintendos Mario video games series, often playing the damsel in distress character of the adventure series. ...

Recall

The game had a launch plagued by difficulties in the United Kingdom. Originally scheduled for release on June 22, 2007, Nintendo announced on June 19, 2007 that the British version had been delayed to July 13, 2007, due to a "production issue".[4] is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 194th day of the year (195th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...


Furthermore, upon release on July 13, 2007, it was then immediately recalled. In a press release, Nintendo gave the reason for the withdrawal as an assembly error, but some retailers were reporting that it was reportedly withdrawn from shelves because some copies included the word "spastic", which is considered an offensive word in the UK. Copies without the word spastic used the word erratic instead.[5] is the 194th day of the year (195th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... The word spastic is used differently depending on location, which has led to some controversy and misunderstanding. ... An erratic is a fragment of glacial till carried by ice, sometimes for hundreds of miles, and deposited on rocks of a different geologic composition. ...


The game was eventually released in the United Kingdom on August 3, 2007. is the 215th day of the year (216th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...


Reception

Reviews
Publication Score
1UP.com 5.5/10[6]
GamePro 4.5/5
Game Informer 7.25/10[7]
GameSpot 6.5/10[8]
GameSpy 3/5[9]
GameTrailers 8.3/10[10]
IGN 5.2/10[11]
Nintendo Power 7.5/10[12]
X-Play 3/5[13]
Compilations of multiple reviews
Compiler Score
Game Rankings 65%[14]

After its North American release on May 29, 2007, the game sold 314,000 units in the United States in three days, making it the best-selling home console game in the country that month (and the best-selling game overall).[15] As of September 30, 2007, the game has sold 2.89 million copies worldwide, with 860,000 of those copies being sold in Japan.[16] Mario Party 8 has also become the fastest selling Mario Party game in the series so far. ... GamePro is an American video game magazine published monthly. ... Game Informer (often abbreviated to GI) is an American-based monthly magazine featuring articles, news, strategy and reviews of popular video games and associated consoles. ... GameSpot is a video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information. ... GameSpy, also known as GameSpy Industries, is a division of IGN Entertainment, which operates a network of game Web sites and provides online video game-related services and software. ... GameTrailers is a media website that specializes in broadcast-quality video game related content for users with high-speed broadband Internet access. ... For other uses, see IGN (disambiguation). ... Nintendo Power magazine is a monthly news and strategy magazine formerly published in-house by Nintendo. ... X-Play logo X-Play (previously Gamespot TV and Extended Play) is a video game review television show hosted by Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb. ... Game Rankings is a website which keeps track of video game reviews from other sites, and combines them to present an average rating for each game. ... is the 149th day of the year (150th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... This is a list of video games that have sold one million copies or more. ... is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...


Common criticisms of the game include its "high-end GameCube graphics", lack of 16:9 Widescreen support during the mini-games, and that the fact that it relies too heavily on luck, rather than on skill. Matt Casamassina of IGN referred to the single-player mode as "torture" and commented on the outdated visuals. The Nintendo GameCube (GCN) is Nintendos fourth home video game console, belonging to the sixth generation era. ... The 16:9 aspect ratio (also known as widescreen) is an aspect ratio that is 16/9 or 1. ... The inner box (green) is the format used in most pre-1952 films and pre-widescreen television. ...


See also

This list is a sortable list of the released or upcoming Wii games, referred to by their English titles. ... Mario Party is a popular multi-player game featuring Mario series characters in which four human- or computer-controlled characters compete in a board game with interspersed mini-games, featuring characters in the Mario universe. ...

References

  1. ^ id=WnjIJm5FSwjb8m39oUzkZvIqkRXZ6F-I Mario Party 8. Nintendo. Retrieved on 2007-06-20.
  2. ^ Mario Party 8. Australia. Retrieved on 2007-06-20.
  3. ^ http://www.nintendo-europe.com/NOE/en/GB/news/article.do?elementId=Ik4cY5VYaH49YeJPjOYMs6oEv1jrTRxR
  4. ^ http://www.nintendo-europe.com/NOE/en/GB/news/article.do?elementId=k1aGsve4jTTlaGQzpRjt7IsruiuL4zLU
  5. ^ http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=57621&in_page_id=34
  6. ^ Reviews: Mario Party 8.
  7. ^ Mario Party 8.
  8. ^ Mario Party 8.
  9. ^ Mario Party 8 (Wii).
  10. ^ Mario Party 8.
  11. ^ Mario Party 8 Review.
  12. ^ Nintendo Power 217, July 2007
  13. ^ Mario Party 8.
  14. ^ Mario Party 8 - WII.
  15. ^ May Video-Game-Sales – Nintendo PWNS Everyone Again. TeamXbox.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-23.
  16. ^ Financial Results Briefing for the Six-Month Period Ending September 2007 6. Nintendo (2007-11-09). Retrieved on 2007-10-26.

Nintendo Company, Limited (任天堂 or ニンテンドー Nintendō; NASDAQ: NTDOY, TYO: 7974 usually referred to as simply Nintendo, or Big N ) is a multinational corporation founded on September 23, 1889[1] in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Nintendo Company, Limited (任天堂 or ニンテンドー Nintendō; NASDAQ: NTDOY, TYO: 7974 usually referred to as simply Nintendo, or Big N ) is a multinational corporation founded on September 23, 1889[1] in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

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Spinoffs Advance • DS • Mario Party-e • Korokoro Party

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ZDNet Mario Party 8 (Wii) Review & Comparison (1023 words)
Mario Party, the video game franchise that eats like a board game, has now arrived on the Nintendo Wii for the first time with Mario Party 8, and it brims with plenty of pick-up-and-play action.
This year, Mario Party goes to the Star Carnival, which is run by the symbiotic duo of MC Ballyhoo and his talking top hat, Big Top.
Mario Party 8 is certainly loud in multiple senses, with a garish color palette and a stomping, blaring marching-band soundtrack, but the visual fidelity hasn't been improved at all in the move from the GameCube; in some ways, it actually looks worse now.
Mario Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (637 words)
Mario Party is the first in a series of board game style video games for Nintendo platforms, featuring popular Nintendo characters.
After finishing a party, both of these games would have an ending celebration in which the winner would fix a trouble that was happening on the board.
Because this was the first Mario Party released, it introduces all of the elements of the Mario Party Franchise.
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