Mario Party Advance is the seventh game in the Mario Party series for Game Boy Advance released by Nintendo. This game also marks the second appearance of the character, Tumble. As it is not a Nintendo 64 or GameCube game, gameplay is different from that of the previous Mario Party games. The multiplayer Party Mode that was present in all of the other Mario Party games is no longer available. It has been replaced by a new mode called "Shroom City". The aim of the game is to collect all the mini-games and Gaddgets that were scattered around Shroom City by Bowser by completing quests assigned to the player by the various inhabitants of Shroom City. Image File history File links Boxart for Nintendo and Hudson Softs Game Boy Advance video game Mario Party Advance This work is copyrighted. ... 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. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 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. ... This article is about the country in East Asia. ... January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ... is the 87th day of the year (88th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Video games are categorized into genres based on their gameplay. ... Party games are games which share several features suitable to entertaining a social gathering of moderate size. ... 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. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is a self-regulatory organization that applies and enforces ratings, advertising guidelines, and online privacy principles for computer and video games in the United States. ... The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (or ELSPA) is an organisation set up in 1989 by British software publishers. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... 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. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... 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. ... This section needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ... The Nintendo GameCube (Japanese: ゲームキューブ; originally code-named Dolphin during development; abbreviated as GCN) is Nintendos fourth home video game console, belonging to the 128-bit era; the same generation as Segas Dreamcast, Sonys PlayStation 2, and Microsofts Xbox. ... Mario Party ) is the first in a series of board game style video games for Nintendo platforms, featuring popular characters from the Mario series. ... A minigame is a (usually short) segment of a video game that uses a different style of gameplay than the rest of the game. ... King Bowser Koopa, as seen in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door King Bowser Koopa, known in Japan as Koopa (Japanese: クッパ), a fictional turtle-like character from Nintendo video games, is Mario and Luigis arch-nemesis (although he has joined forces with them in a few games). ...

Gameplay

There are four modes in Mario Party Advance: Shroom City, Play Land, Party Land, and Challenge Land.

Shroom City

The objective of Shroom City is to find citizens of Shroom City that will give quests to the players, who must complete them to receive rewards. Most quests will award a Gaddget, but some will grant special mini-games in which players can win coins. Mushrooms are used as dice, and the game ends once a player has run out of mushrooms (characters start with five). Every three turns, players are forced to play a Mushroom Challenge mini-game. For winning the Mushroom Challenge, players receive three mushrooms (at random times, they are given chances to win six mushrooms). Losing the Mushroom Challenge results in no reward. There are also mini-game spaces on the board; if a player lands on one, he or she can play a mini-game for more mushrooms. If Tumble appears, he or she will get 2 mushrooms for clearing the mini-game. But if Koopa Kid appears, he or she can only win 1 for beating the mini-game. In addition, the player will lose one mushroom if he or she fails. There is also another space on the board that causes a player to have another turn without rolling another mushroom. Shroom City also has various areas: Town Area, Seaside Area, Jungle Area, Desert Area, Snow Area, and Horror Area. Some parts in it are just like Animal Crossing. Dōbutsu no Mori logo used in Japan Animal Crossing, known in Japan as Dōbutsu no Mori lit. ...

Play Land

In Play Land, the cartridge owner can play any mini-game previously unlocked in Shroom City. Gamers can also trade or give away mini-games or Gaddgets and play a special game called Penguin Race, 4-player (or fewer) game, the outcome of which is determined by mini-game high scores.

Party Land

In Party Land, multiplayer games are made available. Two gamers can access Duel Games with a single game pak, or play Secret Battles and Koopa Kid Battles with two paks. There are two special modes, 100-Player Battle and 100-Player Attack, that use a single Game Boy Advance and are centered on beating another player's high score, or making one's own high score last the longest. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Challenge Land

In Challenge Land, gamers play different modes to earn coins, which used to buy extra Gaddgets. The modes include Mini-game Attack, Game Room, Duel Dash, and Bowser Land. In Mini-game Attack, coins are rewarded for completing games without failing, and, for every level (which are called 'attacks') successfully completed, increasingly large coin rewards are granted. Game Room holds special "coin games", which are typical Casino games, such as slots and rubbing spaces on a card. Duel Dash pits the player against a computer opponent for a series of Duel games. There are three difficulty modes: Easy, Normal, and Hard, with the harder modes awarding larger amounts of coins. In Bowser Land, Bowser's roller coaster deposits the player on a randomly chosen Koopa Kid mini-game. Completing the coaster in the right amount of time will grant the player coins. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The original Koopalings make their debut appearance in Super Mario Bros. ...

Playable characters

Only four characters are playable on Mario Party Advance, even though other games in the series have more playable characters.

• Mario
• Luigi
• Yoshi
• Princess Peach

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Gaddgets

A Gaddget is 'a wonderful toy with many functions'. They are earned by completing quests in Shroom City, beating Bowser's many Koopa Kid mini-games, and buying them with coins in Challenge Land. Some of the many Gaddgets include: Dessert Menu, where the player can make a dessert by picking three things from three categories, Tap-Tap Sumo, where one plays a popular Japanese game with Goomba characters, and Screen Clean, in which one's Game Boy Advance screen is cleaned by the game. The hardest one to get is Power Star, which players must buy with 100,000 coins. For the Game Boy emulator, see Goomba (emulator). ...

Reaction

Mario Party Advance had generally low reviews, and is considered the worst in the series.

• GameSpot: 6.5
• IGN: 6.0
• GameStats: 6.9
• Game Rankings: 54%
• GameTab: 64%
• 1UP.com: 6.4

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Bonus Board

Mario Party Advance comes with a paper board that can be used in conjunction with the video game for an enhanced multiplayer experience. The game acts as a dice-roller and mini-game chooser. The mini-games that are played are 4-player Gaddgets.

External links

• Mario Party Advance Official Website