Mario Party Wii

[Cherubim1324]

Mario Party 8
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Mario Party 8 is an upcoming game for the Wii. It was announced during Nintendo's press conference on September 14, 2006. It will be the tenth game in the series (eleventh in Japan) and the first to be released on Nintendo's new console. The first videos and screenshots for the game were revealed during the Nintendo World event in Japan on November 3, 2006.

Mario Party Wii revealed (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=148674)

Monday 6-Nov-2006 10:07 AM The long-running Nintendo all-star party series goes motion sensitive

The eighth instalment of the Mario Party series will be coming to Wii next year, with a whole list of multiplayer mini games that take full advantage of the Wii's motion-sensitive powers.

Unveiled at the Nintendo World 2006 tour, a playable demo of the game revealed many of the games characters (Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, Wario, Daisy, Waluigi, Toad, Boo, Toadette, Birdo and Dry Bones), as well as some of the new mini games.

With the Wii being designed for multiplayer gaming, it should be the perfect platform for the party series, and might even give it the refresher it needs. Hell, we might even play it.

Mike Jackson (Mike.Jackson@futurenet.co.uk)

[Kaffee]

I haven't played Mario Party since the first one, I'm way behind.

[Cherubim1324]

I have not come across much information on this game since making this thread, so I thought I would post the Mario Party 8 pages from Nintendo.com (http://www.nintendo.com/home), Nintendo-Europe (http://www.nintendo-europe.com/NOE/en/GB/home/index.do), and Nintendo Australia (http://www.nintendo.com.au/), which contain some information (including release dates)...

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Article source: Nintendo Power (http://www.nintendo.com/nintendopower)

Shake, saw, paint and much more with the Wii Remote!

Category: Action (http://www.nintendo.com/gamecategory?cf=Action)
Players: up to 4 players
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Publisher: Nintendo (http://www.nintendo.com/home)

The world’s most popular party video game franchise is getting a lot crazier in Mario Party 8 for the Wii. Whether you’re shaking up cola cans or lassoing barrels, you and your friends will be drawn into the action like never before using the Wii Remote!

Play with motion control! Row your way down a river, punch a statue to pieces, steer race cars and mopeds, and handle a balancing pole while walking a tightrope!

* Play with the pointer! Drag and drop decorations onto cakes, shoot Boos in haunted house, quickly choose your answer in a game show!
* Mash those Wii Remote buttons! Jump and pummel your way through a football brawl, hop and run across an obstacle course of spinning platforms!
* Mario Party 8 includes six brand-new boards, dozens of minigames and many new modes

In a franchise first, you can collect special power-ups and transform your character into a boulder that smashes rivals or a coin-sucking vampire! Mario Party 8 includes “extra-large” minigames like Star Carnival Bowling and Table Menace.

Please check back for more information on this game as the release date approaches.

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Visit www.esrb.org (http://www.esrb.org/) for more info.

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System: Wii (http://www.nintendo-europe.com/NOE/en/GB/system/wii_topic1.jsp)
Category: Others (http://www.nintendo-europe.com/NOE/en/GB/games/category.jsp?catId=56c8d631-2f78-4dd0-91ac-ba6d4a6cef2fS)
Release Date: 22.06.2007
Genre: Party Game
Developer: Hudson Soft
Publisher: Nintendo
Number of Discs: 1
Number of Players: Up to 4
Multiplayer Type: Simultaneous

Roll up, roll up! The carnival is in town and it's time to party! Join Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, DK and more of your favourite Nintendo characters as they compete across five brand new game boards and more than 60 new minigames to win the coveted prize: a year's supply of candy! But Bowser isn't about to let them get away with it…

For the first Mario Party on Wii, up to four players roll virtual dice and move around the game boards (ranging from a haunted house to a moving train and a treasure island) before competing in crazy minigames that make full use of the Wii Remote; such as tightrope walking, skipping, snowboarding, boat rowing, lassoing and even cake decorating.

As well as the main, madcap multiplayer game, Mario Party 8 also features a special single-player only mode, a minigame-only mode, a bazaar where you can unlock new minigames and goodies, and a mode made specifically for playing as Mii characters!

•The first Mario Party for Wii

•Includes 60+ all-new minigames made especially for the Wii Remote

•Play with up to three friends or battle against the computer

•Five new game boards, each with pitfalls to avoid and shortcuts to take

•Choose from 14 classic Mario characters, including Party newcomers Blooper and Hammer Bro.

•Play dedicated minigames using your Mii characters

•Widescreen mode

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Mario Party 8
Last Updated: 08 May 2007

System: Wii
Genre: Party
Number of Players: 1 - 4 players
Skill Level: Beginner
Distributor: Nintendo
Release Date: 05 July 2007

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The world's most popular party video game is getting a lot crazier in Mario Party 8. Whether you're shaking up cola cans or lassoing barrels, you and your friends will be drawn into the action like never before using the Wii Remote.

Features:
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* Play with motion control: Players row their way through a river race, punch a statue to pieces, steer race cars, mopeds and go-karts and handle a balancing pole while walking a tightrope.
* Play using the Pointer: Shoot at Boos in a haunted house, rag and drop toppings in a cake-decorating competition, select the correct answers in game show challenges.
* Play using the Wii Remote's buttons: Players jump and pummel their way through a football brawl, hop and run across a field of spinning platforms
* Mario Party 8 also includes dozens of new minigames, six new party boards and many new game modes.
* 4 player party fun the whole family can enjoy.
* Introducing new characters to the series.

In a series first, players can transform their characters into many forms, such as player-smashing boulders and coin-sucking vampires. Mario Party 8 also includes "extra-large" minigames like Star Carnival Bowling and Table Menace. One to four players can play Mario Party 8, each with a Wii Remote.
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In Mario Party 8, a whimsical ringmaster has invited Mario, Peach and the rest of the crew to his carnival, a perfect setting for the dynamic spectacle of the Wii game play. Mario Party 8 keeps the surprises coming with minigames that draw upon the Wii Remote's motion, pointing and button control in a variety of ways. Players always know how to jump into the action by watching an animated tutorial that shows how to use the Wii Remote.

Following tradition, Mario Party 8 takes the social, strategic game play of board games and adds breaks for quick, action-oriented minigames. In the main mode, players travel across six boards in search of Stars, landing on spaces that are helpful (example: giving coins) or a hindrance (example: sending Bowser in to mess with the player). Several variations for these boards tweak the main goals to enhance game play for solo sessions, two-player games and three- to four-player games.

In addition, Mario Party 8 includes four more minigame-infused kinds of board games, such as Tic-Tac Drop, where players earn the right to put the next mark on the board by winning a minigame.

Mario Party games are a celebration of all things Mario, so you can play as 14 classic characters, the widest selection yet for the series, including newcomers Hammer Bro and Blooper. You'll also bump into many old friends and foes that span 20+ years of Mario games.

[Altima]

I haven't played a Mario Party game since like part 4 or 5. I may get this just to build up a Wii library.

[Cherubim1324]

A little bit more on Mario Party 8 (http://gonintendo.com/?p=18310)

While we all pretty much know what to expect from a Mario Party game, the eighth installment will bring a new mode with it. The “Extras Zone” will have eight minigames, four of which have to be unlocked. The four we know of are a Wii Sports bowling clone, a Wii Play table tennis clone, a racing game, and a “variety pack” that offers up puzzles. This mode allows you to play as your Miis instead of Mario Party characters.

Link (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6486210&postcount=1)

GameVideos updates (http://gonintendo.com/?p=18316)

Mario Party 8 “fruit picker” (http://gamevideos.com/video/id/11728)

Mario Party 8 “frozen assets” (http://gamevideos.com/video/id/11729)

Mario Party 8 “specter inspector” (http://gamevideos.com/video/id/11730)

Mario Party 8 “stampede” (http://gamevideos.com/video/id/11731)

Mario Party 8 hands-on (http://gonintendo.com/?p=18445)

The gang at AMN managed to get their hands on a review copy of Mario Party 8. So far it doesn’t sound like they are too impressed with the game. Rather than building minigames around the Wiimote, it sounds like minigames just have Wiimote controls tacked on. I should be getting my review copy today, and I will be sure to fill you guys in on my thoughts.

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Article here (http://wii.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=9870)

Mario Party 8 updated fact sheet (http://gonintendo.com/?p=18589)

Mario Party® 8
Format: Wii™
Launch Date: 05/29/07
ESRB: E (Everyone): Mild Cartoon Violence
Game Type: Party/Board Game
Players: 1-4
Developer: Hudson Soft
Game Information

KEY INFORMATION
The world’s enormously popular party video game is getting a lot crazier in Mario Party 8. Whether you’re shaking up cola cans or lassoing barrels, you and your friends will be drawn into the action like never before using the Wii Remote™.

* Play with motion control: Players row their way through a river race, punch a statue to pieces, steer race cars, mopeds and go-karts and handle a balancing pole while walking a tightrope.

* Play using the Wii Remote as a Pointer: Shoot at Boos in a haunted house, drag and drop toppings in a cake-decorating competition, select the correct answers in game show challenges.

* Play using the Wii Remote’s buttons: Players jump and pummel their way through a football brawl, and hop and run across a field of spinning platforms

* Mario Party 8 also includes dozens of new minigames, six new party boards and many new game modes. In a series first, players can transform their characters into many forms, such as player-smashing boulders and coin-sucking vampires.

* Mario Party 8 also includes “extra-large” minigames like Star Carnival Bowling and Table Menace. One to four players can play Mario Party 8, each with a Wii Remote.

Game storyline: In Mario Party 8, a hyperactive emcee has invited Mario™, Peach and the rest of the crew to his carnival, a perfect setting for the dynamic spectacle of the Wii game play. Mario Party 8 keeps the surprises coming with minigames that draw upon the Wii Remote’s motion, pointing and button control in a variety of ways. Players always know how to jump into the action by watching an animated tutorial that shows how to use the Wii Remote.

How to progress through the game: Following tradition, Mario Party 8 takes the social, strategic game play of board games and adds breaks for quick, action-oriented minigames. In the main mode, players travel across six boards in search of Stars, landing on spaces that are helpful (example: giving coins) or a hindrance (example: sending Bowser in to mess with the player). Several variations for these boards tweak the main goals to enhance game play for solo sessions, two-player games and three- to four-player games.

In addition, Mario Party 8 includes four more minigame-infused kinds of special games, such as Tic-Tac Drop, where players earn the right to put the next mark on the board by winning a minigame.

Characters: Mario Party games are a celebration of all things Mario, so you can play as 14 classic characters, the widest selection yet for the series, including newcomers Hammer Bro and Blooper. You’ll also bump into many old friends and foes that span 20+ years of Mario games.

Special powers/weapons/moves/features: Beyond using the Wii Remote’s motion and pointer control, this eighth game in the Mario Party series goes its own way with two changes:

* Players can transform their character using candy power-ups. Examples: When Peach eats Bowlo Candy, she’ll turn into a Peach-faced ball and bowl over characters to get their coins. When Wario™ eats Vampire Candy, he’ll sprout wings and fly off to suck the coins from all other players.

* A more engaging view of the action puts the player “on the board” with his traveling character, no longer far above the whole board looking down.

Nintendo press room

DID YOU KNOW? NINTENDO'S MARIO PARTY 8 BRINGS THE CARNIVAL TO TOWN (http://press.nintendo.com/articles.jsp?id=12350)

May 29, 2007

Nintendo is bringing the carnival to town, and this time the party is going to get players up and moving. Mario Party® 8 is the first Mario Party game for Wii™ from Nintendo, and the first in the series to incorporate motion controls.

In this carnival-themed excursion, players might use the Wii Remote™ to punch the air to chip away at a statue, point it at the screen to shoot at targets or balance it like a tightrope walker's pole. The amazing functions of the Wii Remote add a new level of hilarious competition. This new Mario Party installment includes new boards, characters, moves and minigames.

Since the original Mario Party debuted in 1999 on Nintendo® 64, the franchise has been a perpetual fan favorite, selling nearly 6.5 million in the United States alone. It's the video game version of a board game, where each player takes a turn moving spaces. Then everyone competes in a fast-paced minigame at the end of the round. Its controls are fun and easy enough that every member of the family can join in. Mario Party 8 lets players get into the action like never before, and is a great follow-up for gamers and families who had fun competing in Wii Sports™.

Mario Party 8, Rated E for Everyone, launches May 29. For more information about Mario Party 8, please visit www.MarioParty.com (http://www.marioparty.com/).