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Mario Party 4 is the fourth in a series of board game style video games for Nintendo platforms, featuring popular Nintendo characters. It was released on the Nintendo GameCube in North America on October 21, 2002 strangely before the Japanese release on November 8, 2002. It was released on November 29, 2002 in Europe, being heavily criticised for being 'Nintendo's big GameCube Game' for Christmas 2002 as Metroid Prime was delayed until March 2003.
Mario Party 4 was the first Mario Party that was released on the Nintendo GameCube. Each board had its own host, including Toad, Goomba, Shy Guy, Koopa, and Boo. Mario Party 4 also contains some characters new to the franchise; Thwomp and Whomp. Klepto, Dolphin, Lakitu, and Star, along with two completely new characters named Genie of the Lamp and Ztar, are included as well. Mario Party 4 retains the Story Mode found in Mario Party 3.
The game, as usual, contains a standard party mode in which up to four players play through a board, trying to collect as many Stars as possible. The Star Space would appear randomly on the board, and players would have to reach it before anyone else. However, the Stars carry a price tag of 20 coins, and player has to earn those coins by winning minigames, which take place at the end of each turn (after all the players have rolled the Dice Block, which will always roll a number from one to ten).
Battle minigames are like the 4-player games, but generally (with many exceptions) a little more elaborate. Battle games are usually tense because every player has to put a certain number of coins (from 5 - 50) into a pot. First place gets 70% of the pot, second place gets 30%, and a random player gets any coins lost in rounding.
Every Mario Party contains 60 to 80 minigames of a few different types. Four-player games are a free-for-all in which all players competed against each other. 2-on-2 and 1-on-3 minigames put players in groups, so they have to cooperate in the minigame to win, even though they are against each other in the main game. In most situations, winners of these games make 10 coins each.
Gameplay
Boards
- Toad's Midway Madness
- Goomba's Greedy Gala
- Koopa's Seaside Soiree
- Shy Guy's Jungle Jam
- Boo's Haunted Bash
- Bowser's Gnarly Party (Clear Story Mode to unlock it)
Spaces
There is various spaces you can land in the game. The following is a list of them, and what they do.
- Blue Space - You get three coins. Also, there is a special feature on this game called Hidden Blocks, in which a star or coins may be hidden on random blue spaces.
- Red Space - You lose three coins.
- Green Happening Space - A special board event takes place.
- Warp Space - You are sent to the same space as an opponent. A spinner chooses which opponent's space you will warp to.
- Mushroom Space - Two boxes will appear (one big and one small). Choose one, and you will be given either a Mini Mushroom or a Mega Mushroom. (Note: The Mega Mushroom is not always in the large box, and the Mini Mushroom is not always in the small box.)
- Battle Space - A battle minigame will start in which players put a chosen amount of coins into a pot. The better you finish in the minigame, the more coins you will get back from the pot.
- Bowser Space - Bowser may steal items from players or a Bowser minigame may begin.
- Fortune Space - A reversal of fortune begins, in which players may have to give coins or stars to others. The player who landed on it plays a sort of plinko game that chooses the two players involved as well as what will be given, taken, or swapped.
Board Events
- Item Shop: You can buy items here that will help you gain an advantage in the game. If you have three items, have no coins, or it's the last turn, you wont be able to buy anything.
- Lottery Shop: Pay 5 coins to play a lottery game. There is either the scratcher ticket game, where the player chooses 1 out of 12 tickets win a prize. A 1 will give 100 coins, a 2 will give 30 coins, a 3 will give a Mega Mushroom and a "Try Again" gives nothing. Another game is the Ball Game, based purely on chance. Spin the machine and get a ball. A gold ball gives 100 coins, a pink ball gives 30 coins, a blue ball gives a Mega Mushroom, and a white ball gives nothing.
- Lucky Party Ticket: The first time you enter in the Lottery shop, you will receive a Lucky Party Ticket. During the last 5 turns, a Lottery Drawing will take place. The winner will receive a star.
- Boo House: Here, players can hire Boo to steal coins at a 5 coin cost or a star at a 50 coin cost.
- Gates: Gates need a mini mushroom to get past. Usually have a mini mini game on the other side of it.
- Mini-mini games: These are mini games in which you can only play if you are using a mini mushroom. You usually win coins or items if you win the mini-mini game.
Items
- Mini Mushroom: makes you smaller so you can pass through small pipes on the gameboard and play in-game minigames (or "Mini Mini-games"), but lets you roll the dice block only from one to five.
- Mega Mushroom: makes you bigger so you can stomp on players in your path to take ten coins from them, and lets you move using two dice blocks; you don't stop for Stars or board events.
- Super Mini Mushroom: same as the Mini Mushroom, but lets you roll using two dice blocks that roll from one to five.
- Super Mega Mushroom: same as the Mega Mushroom, but lets you roll using three dice blocks.
- Mini-Mega Hammer: causes a random player (excluding the user) to feel the effects of either a Mini Mushroom or a Mega Mushroom.
- Swap Card: lets you exhange items with another player that a roulette decides.
- Warp Pipe: lets you swap places with another player that a roulette decides.
- Gaddlight: protects you one time from a Boo that would steal your stars or coins.
- Chomp Call: changes the location of the star.
- Sparky Sticker: placed on the space you are currently on; makes whoever passes the space lose ten coins and the effects of any mushrooms in use.
- Boo's Crystal Ball: Boo will steal coins (pay 5 coins) or a Star (pay 50 coins) from an opponent.
- Bowser Suit: takes 30 coins from every player you pass on that turn.
- Genie Lamp: takes you directly to the star.
- Item Bag: gives you up to three random items (fills your inventory of items to the maximum, which is three).
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Minigames
Coin collecting minigames appear in orange.
- 4P
- Manta Rings
Players swim underwater,trying to go through rings. Golden rings placed by the Manta Ray from Super Mario 64 areworth three normal rings, and players who hit underwater obstacles such as bloopers or an eel lose points.
- Slime Time
Players are stuck to the "slime" in the title, and must escape by running upa straight path to a circular safety point. This game involves rapidly hitting the "A" button.
- Booksquirm
Players are in a book with circular, crescent-shaped, and star-shaped holes. As the pages in the book turn, players must run to a hole in the book.
- Mario Medley
A swimming game. Players do one length of a pool swimming the backstroke, butterfly, and front crawl. However, players have a heartbeat limiter.
- Avalanche!
Players quickly ski down a mountain, avoiding an avalanche and rock obstacles along the way. Jumps help players speed, while running into the sheer cliffs on either side impede it.
- Domination
Players use hammers to set up Whomp dominoes. This is another game that involves quickly hitting the "A" button.
- Paratrooper Plunge
Players fall through the sky, attempting to collect coins and coin bags while avoiding Shy Guys and Parakoopas. Players who hit the flying enemies four times are eliminated.
- Toad's Quick Draw
Players use pop guns to shoot down the balloon corresponding to the flag that Toad raises. Players who shoot the correct balloon first three times win.
- Three Throw
Players try to get baskets on the moving hoops. There are three rows of basketball hoops, and the middle hoops are worth two normal hoops.
- Photo Finish
Players try to put together a six-piece puzzle that has a moving picture together. The first player to complete the puzzle wins.
- Mr. Blizzard's Brigade
Players avoid snowball-throwing snowmen. Players who are hit are frozen. Last player standing wins.
- Bob-omb Breakers
Similar to Tetris. Players earn one point per block broken. Three blocks of the same shape touching are required for the blocks to be broken. First player to 100 points wins.
- Long Claw of the Law
Players use a long claw to grab the "wanted" character. Characters include: Shy Guys, Thwomps, Chomps, Boos, and Goombas. First player to capture three of the wanted character wins.
- Stamp Out!
Players have their own colored stamp. Players try to color as much of a piece of paper. When time is up, the player with the highest percentage colored wins.
- Mario Speedwagons
A simple racing game. Players race in Formula 1-style race cars rather than the often-used karts. No steering is required, and this mini-game is won by getting a good start, then shifting gears when the red indicator blinks.
- 1 vs. 3
- Team tries to eliminate solo player
- Candlelight Flight
- Team tries to eliminate solo player
Single player holds a candle, while the others have water guns and try to put it out. Five hits are required to extinguish the candle.
- Makin' Waves
Single player is on a shell-like floating device in the middle of a pool. The others have similar floating tubes and must ground pound to make waves, hopefully knocking over the middle player. The single player can run around to offset the unbalance made by the waves.
- Tree Stomp
The three players are in tree "robots" which have spikes on the front and back and must try and hit the single player, who can only run to stay away from the tree "robots." Bananas are thrown out by Ukiki, some of which cause players to slip and fall, but glowing bananas cause players to move faster than normal. This is helpful for the robots, but not for the single player, who is more susceptible when moving inordinately fast.
- GOOOOOOOAL!
Players try and score on the single player, who is the goalie. Ten goals are required for a three player victory.
- Solo player tries to eliminate team
- Hide and Go BOOM!
- Solo player tries to eliminate team
Three players hide in four cannons, more than one player can hide per cannon. Single player has three guesses to eliminate all players by lighting the wicks of the cannons. Only one player not shot out of a cannon is required for a three player win.
- Blame it on the Crane
Similar to "Crane Game" from the earlier Mario Party games. Single player controls a crane, while three players and numerous Shy Guys are in clear balls. Single player must capture all three other players to win.
- Hop or Pop
Single player is in spiky ball, while other three are in bouncy balls. Single player must pop all other three players to win.
- Same objective for both sides
- Fish n' Drips
- Same objective for both sides
The single player has to hit seven buttons in sequential order to pump the same amount of water as the three players hitting one button each. First team to pump enough water to fill up the bowl for Lakitu's Cheep Cheep wins. Also, if the single player makes a mistake, he must start over again, if one of the three players makes a mistake, they don't have to restart.
- Money Belts
Players run on a conveyor belt littered with candy and coins. If they fall off, they must wait to be re-placed and miss any coins or money bags that go past their place. Players in the team of three get all of the cumalative coins their team gets.
- 2 vs. 2
- Teamwork required
- The Great Deflate
- Team Treasure Trek
- Pair-a-Sailing
- Dungeon Duos
- Right Oar Left?
- Teamwork not required
- Reverse-a-Bomb
- Cliffhangers
- Order Up
- Cheep Cheep Sweep
- Teamwork required
- Battle
- Trace Race
- Chain Chomp Fever
- Paths of Peril
- Bowser's Bigger Blast
- Butterfly Blitz
- Rumble Fishing
- Bowser
- Darts of Doom
- Fruits of Doom
- Balloon of Doom
- Story (done when first completing the board game in story mode)
- Bowser Bop - Toad's Midway Madness
- Mystic Match 'Em - Boo's Haunted Bash
- Archaeologuess - Shy Guy's Jungle Jam
- Goomba's Chip Flip - Goomba's Greedy Gala
- Kareening Koopas - Koopa's Seaside Soiree
- Etc.
- The Final Battle
- Bowser Wrestling
- Panels of Doom
- Extra Room
- 1P (Whomp's Basement Brouhaha)
- Jigsaw Jitters - Unlock Photo Finish to play
- Barrel Baron
- Mushroom Medic
- Doors of Doom
- Bob-omb X-ing
- Goomba Stomp - Unlock Tree Stomp to play
- Multiplayer (Thwomp's Backroom Ball)
- Mega Board Mayhem
- Mini Board Mad-Dash
- Challenge Booksquirm - Unlock Booksquirm to play
- Panel Panic - Unlock Panels of Doom to play
- Ztar (Unlock all other mini-games)
- Beach Volley Folley (incidentaly, Beach Volley Folley was a bonus game in Mario Party 5)
- 1P (Whomp's Basement Brouhaha)
Playable Characters
Non-Playable Characters
- Toad (is playable in Beach Volley Folley only)
- Koopa (is playable in Beach Volley Folley only)
- Goomba (is a referee only in Beach Volley Folley)
- Shy Guy (is playable in Beach Volley Folley only)
- Bowser (is playable in Beach Volley Folley only)
- Koopa Kid/Mini Bowser (is playable in Beach Volley Folley only)
- Thwomp
- Whomp
Voice Artists
- Charles Martinet as Mario, Luigi, Wario and Waluigi
- Jen Taylor as Peach, Daisy and Toad
- Richard Yearwood as Donkey kong
- Kazumi Totaka as Yoshi
- Scott Burns as Bowser
Trivia
General
- The story stays the same for all the characters, but is not due to them being in the same sitution at once. For whomever you choose, it is his/her's birthday. Toad, Boo, Goomba, Koopa and Shy Guy have discovered a mystery "Party Cube", within which is hidden the players birthday gifts. In order to win them, the player must complete each hosts game board and then beat them at an exclusive minigame. After beating all five guides, Toad will tell you there is one gift missing, before being squashed by Bowser falling from the ceiling. Bowser announces that he has all of your presents and ushers you away, saying you can get them back by beating him on his board. Best the other three players on his board will cause Bowser to challenge you to a battle (the player must chase him around a cube shaped area, but fighting him on the final side). After his defeat, he'll run off leaving a parcel. One of his henchmen will admit that he didn't take your presents afterall, that the thing left behind is for you and that Bowser might actually be a good guy, before running after Bowser and wishing you a happy birthday. Bowser is shown sulking away, claiming that he can't do mushy stuff but still also sending birthday wishes. Toad returns, announcing that someone still has something to give to the player. The player looks up to see a star, who forms a constellion of the character. The game then ends with clips of the guides preparing the party as the credits roll. These show the five hosts finding the Party Cube and preparing for the party. The final scene sees the five hosts chasing the Party Cube as it clears itself of their pictures and vanishes.
- Mario Party 4 marks the last Mario Party game in which Donkey Kong is a playable character. Starting with the next one, he got his own space like Bowser.
- Mario Party 4 also marks the last Mario Party that Toad, Boo and Koopa Kid were hosts. Starting with the next one, they were playable characters, although Koopa Kid leaves this distinction in Mario Party 7.
- The Mega and Mini Mushrooms eventually appeared in New Super Mario Bros.. They generally function the same way as they did in this game, but the Mushrooms themselves were redesigned.
Mini-game Name Puns
- Booksquirm is a pun on bookworm.
- Manta Rings is a pun of Manta Ray
- Pair-a-Sailing is a cross of pair and parasailing
- Reverse-a-Bomb is a play on "reversable".
- Three Throw is a pun on free throw.
- Long Claw of the Law is a cross between a claw and long arm of the law.
- Fish n’ Drips is a pun on fish and chips.
- Blame it on the Crane is a cross between a crane and blame it on the rain.
- Hide and Go BOOM! is a cross between an explosion and hide and go seek.
- Archaeologuess is a pun on the branch of science archaeology.
- Right Oar Left is a play on the homophones or and oar.
- Mario Speedwagons may be a play off the band REO Speedwagon.
Most of the other game names consist of alliteration.
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