Monster Party
Developer(s)	Bandai
Publisher(s)	Bandai
Release date(s)	1989 (U.S.)
Genre(s)	Platform game
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	n/a
Platform(s)	NES

Monster Party is a video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), released in the U.S. in 1989 by Bandai. It was and remains a relatively obscure platform game for the console but has a small following among NES players. Prototype screenshots of a Japanese Famicom version exist, but the game was never released in Japan. Image File history File links Monster_Party_Box. ... A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates computer or video games. ... This article is about the Japanese toy manufacturer. ... Video game publishers are companies that publish video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer. ... This article is about the Japanese toy manufacturer. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Motto: E pluribus unum (1789 to present) (Latin: Out of Many, One) In God We Trust (1956 to present) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York Official language(s) None at federal level; English de facto Government • President • Vice President Federal republic George W... This is a listing of computer and video game genres with brief descriptions and examples from each genre. ... A screenshot of the original Donkey Kong. ... 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 is about computer and video games. ... The Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, is an 8-bit video game console released by Nintendo in North America, Brazil, Europe, Asia, and Australia. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... The Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, is an 8-bit video game console released by Nintendo in North America, Brazil, Europe, Asia, and Australia. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the Japanese toy manufacturer. ... A screenshot of the original Donkey Kong. ... Prototypes or prototypical instances combine the most representative attributes of a category. ... A screenshot of the Wikipedia website being displayed in the Mozilla web browser. ... The Nintendo Entertainment System (U.S., Europe, and Australia) NES redirects here. ...

Story

Monster Party features content that is atypically morbid for an NES game, though for the title screen the blood is colored green.

The story centers on a child named Mark who is accosted on his way home from a baseball game by a winged, gargoyle-like alien monster named Bert who requests his assistance in ridding "evil monsters" from his home planet. Mark is reluctant to help, but Bert insists, saying that Mark can use his "weapon" (the baseball bat in his hand) to fight enemies. He quickly whisks him away, and inexplicably fuses with Mark while in flight. Image File history File links Monster_Party_2. ... Image File history File links Monster_Party_2. ... Baseball is a team sport in which a player on one team (the pitcher) attempts to throw a hard, fist-sized ball at a player on the other team (the batter), who attempts to hit the baseball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical bat that can be made out of either... A gargoyle adorning Dornoch Cathedral in Scotland. ... The existence of extraterrestrial life remains hypothetical though human beings continue to search Extraterrestrial life is life that may exist and originate outside the planet Earth. ... Monster is a term for any number of legendary creatures that frequently appear in mythology, legend, and horror fiction. ... The bayonet, still used in war as both knife and spearpoint. ...

This bizarre plot introduction sets up a game that is filled with variations on many traditional horror characters and themes (sometimes with ironic twists) as well as relatively novel, and always weird, characters all its own. Some traditional horror bosses the game features include a mummy, giant spiders, zombies, Medusa, and Death; persistent players will also encounter such creatures as a haunted well that throws plates, a large caterpillar, walking pants, and a huge cat that hurls small kittens. // Plot in literature, theater, movies According to Aristotles Poetics, a plot in literature is the arrangement of incidents that (ideally) each follow plausibly from the other. ... Horror can mean several things: Horror (emotion) Horror fiction Horror film This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Flag Ship from the video game Gorf In video games, a boss (sometimes called a guardian or master) is a particularly large or difficult computer-controlled character that must be defeated at the end of a segment of a game, whether it be for a level, an episode, or the... A mummy is a corpse whose skin and dried flesh have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold or dryness, or airlessness. ... Suborders Araneomorphae Mesothelae Mygalomorphae See the taxonomy section for families Spiders are invertebrate animals that produce silk, and have eight legs and no wings. ... It has been suggested that Zombie apocalypse be merged into this article or section. ... A relatively modern image of Medusa painted by Arnold Böcklin In Greek mythology, Medusa (Greek: Μέδουσα), was a monstrous female character whose gaze could turn people to stone. ... Death, as a skeleton which carries a scythe, visiting a dying man. ... Okiku is a character in Japanese folklore. ... The striking caterpillar of the Emperor Gum Moth This article is about insect larva. ...

Mark deflecting the bubble projectiles of a plant monster, the first boss in Monster Party.

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Gameplay

The player takes the role of Mark, who wields his bat to attack and to deflect projectiles; this is necessary to defeat most bosses as Mark is otherwise a somewhat clunky and fragile character. Enemies drop hearts, which replenish life, as well as pills which (for a small period of time) turn Mark into Bert, who can fly and shoot beams a limited distance. The effect of Bert's beams on enemies is stronger than Mark's bat attack. An item drop—also called a drop—is a type of reward received in video games and table-top role playing games for beating an enemy or opponent; specifically a drop is a tangable object in the game world that the enemy possesses and drops when it is defeated. ...

Monster Party features eight levels, each of which has a unique password that allows the player to access a particular level without starting the entire game over. The basic objective in each level is to beat particular bosses (and a certain number of them) to earn a key and move on to the next level. Bosses are accessed by doorways found in the main part of the level. However, many of these doors lead to empty rooms, and it is often difficult to find the right door which leads to a boss. Every door, whether it leads to nothing or a level boss, gives the player a question mark ('?') item, which can either provide the player with health, points, 1-ups, or transformation into Bert. In computer and video games, a level (sometimes called a stage, course, episode, round, world, map, wave, board, phase, or landscape) is a separate area in a games virtual world, in modern games typically representing a specific location such as a building or a city. ... A regular password-inserting screen (from Gods). ... Opening (inverted) and closing question marks The question mark (also known as an interrogation point, query, or eroteme) is a punctuation mark that replaces the full stop at the end of an interrogative sentence. ... This article is in need of attention. ... In video games the score is usually an indicator of the players skill or progress. ... The 1-Up Mushroom of the Mario series is the most-recognized symbol of 1-Up. ...

Mark faces one of the strangest bosses in the game: a hopping fried shrimp. Defeating this form turns the monster into an onion ring, which in turn becomes a shish kebob.

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Levels

The level breakdown is as follows:

1. Forest level
2. Sewer level
3. Cave level
4. Egyptian Temple level
5. Lake level
6. Haunted Mansion level
7. Tower level
8. Sky level

See also

• Nintendo Entertainment System
• List of NES games
• List of Famicom games

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External links

• Monster Party at MobyGames
• Syd Lexia on Monster Party Review of Monster Party at SydLexia.com, with screenshots of all bosses.
• Monster Party - Digital Press Online Review of Monster Party at Digital Press Online.
• Monster Party - Bandai Shows screenshots of the Famicom prototype in comparison to the NES version.
• Monster Party - Game Info GameFAQs entry for Monster Party.
• Monster Party Review Review of Monster Party at Flying Omelette, with several screenshots.
• Encyclopedia Obscura: The Horror! Information regarding the alterations of Monster Party pre-release, and exerpts from its morbidly odd ending (8-Bit, but potentially still graphic)
• "Disaster Labs' satirical review"