Dinger Derby is a 4-Player minigame in Mario Party 5, Mario Party: The Top 100, and Mario Party Superstars. It was also included on the Mario Party 5 Demo on the Mario Kart: Double Dash!! Bonus Disc. The minigame's name is a variation of the name of the real-life Home Run Derby.
Opening[]
Artwork of Daisy swinging a bat from the minigame
The camera is zoomed in on one of the players, and zooms out as each of them takes a practice swing, then hits a baseball. In The Top 100, only the animation of players hitting a baseball is shown.
Gameplay[]
Appearance in Mario Party 5
Each player has 30 baseballs thrown at them by a pitching machine and must hit as many of them as possible. There are four types of pitches: a standard pitch, a fastball, a slowball, and a screwball that wobbles furiously. Which pitch is thrown depends on how long the machine winds up to throw. A fast windup indicates a slowball, a normal windup indicates a standard pitch, a slow windup indicates a fastball, and an even slower windup indicates a screwball. If the player manages to hit a ball at one of the spectators, the spectator is dazed for a moment. The player(s) who hit(s) the most balls win(s). If everyone hits the same number of balls, the game ends in a tie.
Decathlon[]
This minigame appears in the "Decathlon" modes in both Mario Party 5 and The Top 100. It is the sixth minigame in Mario Party 5, and the first minigame in The Top 100's Half Decathlon. Here, the player's objective is to hit as many balls as possible to earn as many points as possible, up to 1,000. In both games, a player can get 1,000 if they can hit all 30 balls. The default record for this minigame in Mini-Game Decathlon is 17 points in Mario Party 5 and 10 points in The Top 100.
Mario Party: The Top 100's scoring system[]
Players earn ~47.368 points times the number of balls hit for the first 19 balls; after 19 balls, the player scores 900 points plus another ~9.091 points for each additional hit. Decimals are rounded down.
The scoring in Mario Party: The Top 100 is much more lenient. A result of 20 gives the player 909 points; the same result in Mario Party 5 gives the player only 500 points.[1]
Ending[]
In Mario Party 5 and Mario Party Superstars, the camera changes angle and the bats disappear. The winner(s) then perform(s) their victory animation(s) while the loser(s) perform(s) their losing animation(s), as the crowd cheers and confetti and balloons appear to commend the winner's/winners' success. In Mario Party 5, if any player manages to hit all 30 balls, a hot air balloon with a big number 30 on it will appear.
Controls[]
Mario Party 5[]
– Swing
Mario Party: The Top 100[]
- : Swing
Mario Party Superstars[]
- – Swing
Flavor text[]
Mario Party 5[]
- Rules – "Swing the baseball bat and hit the pitches from the pitching machine. Whoever hits the most pitches wins."
- Advice – "Try watching the speed of the arm to predict the speed of the pitch."
Mario Party: The Top 100[]
- Description – "Swing at just the right moment to hit the machine's pitches!"
- On-screen – "Swing at the right time to hit the pitches!"
Mario Party Superstars[]
- "Swing at just the right moment to hit the machine's pitches."
Gallery[]
Nomenclature[]
[Edit] Language |
Name | Translation | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese (Simplified) | 用力挥棒 Yònglì huī bàng |
Swing Hard | |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 用力揮棒 Yònglì huī bàng |
Swing Hard | |
| Dutch | Honkbalhectiek | Hectic Baseball | |
| French | Batte la Balle! | Beat the Ball! | |
| German | Baseball-Ballerei | Baseball Shoot | |
| Italian | A tutto baseball | Full baseball ahead | |
| Japanese | ハッスルバッティング Hassuru Battingu |
Hustle Batting | |
| Korean | 허슬 배팅 Heoseul Baeting |
Hustle Batting | |
| Portuguese | Batebol | From bate ("beat") and -bol (a suffix for the names of sports, which is the loanword of English word "ball") | |
| Russian | Отбивай-ка! Otbivaj-ka! |
Beat it off! | |
| Spanish | Dale al bate | Swing the Bat |
Trivia[]
- Daisy's artwork for this minigame in Mario Party 5 is similar to that of Hey, Batter, Batter!, another baseball-based minigame from Mario Party 3.
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ PeachApricorn (May 22, 2013). Mario Party 5 ~ Mini-Game Decathlon (Mini-Game Mode). YouTube. Retrieved November 10, 2017.
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