Mario Party 8

Mario Party 8
Developer(s)	Hudson Soft
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Platform(s)	Wii
Release	February 8, 2007 February 23, 2007 March 5, 2007 February, 2007
Genre(s)	Party
Mode(s)	Single player, Multiplayer

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. The game will be released on March 5, 2007 in the United States, February 8, 2007 in Japan, February 23, 2007 in Europe, and February, 2007 in Australia ([1]).

This is the first Mario Party game to be released more than a year after its predecessor, thus ending a seven-year streak of annual Mario Party releases for only Japan and the US.

Characters

• Mario
• Luigi
• Peach
• Yoshi
• Wario
• Daisy
• Waluigi
• Toad
• Boo
• Toadette
• Birdo
• Dry Bones

Secret Characters

• Hammer Bro. [2]

Mini-Games

The following is a list of mini-games announced to be in the game:

• Nintendo Ski [3]
• Arts and Spacecrafts [4]
• For the shake of it" [5][6]
• Magic Target Ride [7]
• Flag Team [8]
• Lasso Polo [9]
• Bath Scrub [10]
• High Sky [11]
• Row-Playing Game [12][13]
• Paint of Heart [14]
• Statutory Rope [15]

Puns

• Nintendo Ski is a pun on the game console, Wii.
• Arts and Spacecrafts is a pun on an arts and crafts.
• For the shake of it"is a pun on Toyota, a car model.
• Magic Target Ride is a pun on Magic Carpet Ride, the name of one of Steppenwolf's more well-known songs.
• Flag Team is a pun on tag team, a type of team where you tag a partner to substitute you during a wrestling match.
• Lasso and fro is a pun on Marco Polo, an explorer.
• Paint of Heart is a pun on the faint of heart (e.g. not for the faint of heart), describing those who faint easily based on experiences the person regularly encounters.
• Statutory Rope is a pun of statutory rape, a type of criminal offense.
• Row-Playing Game is a pun on RPG (short for role-playing game), a type of game.
• High Sky is a pun on an american television show "I Spy".
• Bath Scrub is a pun on bathtub.

See also

• Active games
• List of Wii games

External Links

• IGN Game Page
• Gamespot Game Page
• (6) Mario Party 8 screenshots.
• Mario Party 8
• Mario Party 8, in German language