Mario Party 8

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Mario Party 8
The North American box art.
Information
Developer(s)	Hudson Soft
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Series	Mario Party
Release date	Original release: May 29, 2007 June 20, 2007 June 22, 2007 July 19, 2007 July 26, 2007 August 3, 2007 February 1, 2008 July 12, 2008 November 6, 2008 Nintendo Selects: March 22, 2013
Genre(s)	Party
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer
Ratings	ACB: General CERO: All ages ESRB: Everyone PEGI: Three years and older USK: Six years and older
Platform(s)	Wii
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Predecessor	Mario Party 7 (2005)
Successor	Mario Party DS (2007) Mario Party 9 (2012)

Mario Party 8 is the eighth installment in the Mario Party series and the first game for the Wii console, released in 2007. It features Mario, his friends and enemies visiting a large fair called the Star Carnival, which is hosted by MC Ballyhoo and Big Top.

Plot

Spoiler warning : Don't you even dare read the spoiler! Because if you do… Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoooooo… A horrible fate awaits you.

Mario and the gang come to the Star Carnival and enter a contest to see who can win the grand prize of a year's worth of candy! MC Ballyhoo and Big Top host it all and have the contestants square off on all five boards. The winner emerges and MC Ballyhoo presents the winner with their prize, a year's supply of candy and a new prize, the legendary Star Rod. But then, Bowser comes flying down and takes the Star Rod and challenges Mario and the gang to come to his board, Bowser's Warped Orbit. Upon arrival, the winner has to take on either Hammer Bro or Blooper (unlocked at random). (The unlockable character --revealed on the final stage-- is random. However, the first unlockable character, it is random unless the player redoes Star Battle Arena with the first one. Then the second one is forcibly the opponent. If the player completes Star Battle Arena with any character, the first unlockable character --revealed on the final stage-- is random. Then the player gets the first unlockable character and he --the first unlockable character-- is playable in the game. However, to unlock the second unlockable character, the player must complete --redo-- Star Battle Arena with the first one.) Once victory is achieved, Bowser decides to take matters into his own hands and fights the winner in Superstar Showdown. When Bowser is defeated, the player is awarded their prize (for real this time), and the mini-game stand opens.

Spoiler ends here: You looked! Even if I told you not too!

Characters

In the base game, there are fourteen playable characters (12 starters and 2 unlockables). (There are fifteen characters with fourteen in the base game and one in only the Extras Zone. That is, Miis. And they are only playable in the Extras Zone.) The unlockable characters are Hammer Bro. and Blooper. To unlock one of the unlockable characters, the player must complete Star Battle Arena with any character. (To unlock both of them --Hammer Bro and Blooper-- they must complete Star Battle Arena twice.) In the final stage --Bowser's Warped Orbit-- one of the unlockable characters (Hammer Bro or Blooper) becomes revealed. The unlockable character is random, unless the player completes Star Battle Arena with the one which was unlocked first. If the player completes Star Battle Arena with that one --unlockable character-- the other one (revealed in the stage Bowser's Warped Orbit) is forcibly the opponent. If player completes Star Battle Arena with any character, they get one of the unlockable characters. (But it is random, unless the player is the one that was unlocked first.) Then the player --after they complete Star Battle Arena with any character (but not one of the unlockables)-- gets one of the unlockable characters (unlocked at random). So the player now has the one they got first (and the unlockable character --unlocked at random-- is playable in the game). If the player completes (re-does) Star Battle Arena with that unlockable character, they get the other one.

Base Game

• Mario
• Luigi
• Yoshi
• Birdo
• Princess Peach
• Princess Daisy
• Toad
• Toadette
• Boo
• Dry Bones
• Wario
• Waluigi
• Hammer Bro. (New + unlockable)
• Blooper (New + unlockable)

Other Characters

• Mii (Extra Zone only)

Team names

	Mario	Luigi	Peach	Yoshi	Wario	Daisy	Waluigi	Toad	Boo	Toadette	Birdo	Dry Bones	Blooper	Hammer Bro
Mario		Mario Bros.	Power Players	Fan Favorites	Big Sarrios	Flower Players	'Stache Clashers	Fungi Fun Guys	Soul Bros.	Marionettes	Super Snozzios	BBQ Ribs	'Stache Splashers	Heavy-Blow Bros.
Luigi	Mario Bros.		Waltzing Brawlers	Green Machine	Green 'n' Greedy	Tango Tanglers	Lean 'n' Mean	Savage Sidekicks	Scaredy Pants	Cha-Cha Chasers	Samba Smashers	Cry Bones	Blooper Scoopers	Longtime-Foe Bros.
Peach	Power Players	Waltzing Brawlers		Kind Hearts	Sugar 'n' Spies	Damsels in Success	Sweet 'n' Sour	Loyal Friends	Boo-for-Teas	High-Flair Pair	Pink Superpowers	Dry Thrones	Royal Flush	Glamour Hammer
Yoshi	Fan Favorites	Green Machine	Kind Hearts		Poached Eggs	Tomboy Trouble	Scrambled Eggs	Good Buddies	Hovering Fiends	Flutter Friends	Egg Explosion	Sky Bones	Double Dippers	Hungry Hammers
Wario	Big Sarrios	Green 'n' Greedy	Sugar 'n' Spies	Poached Eggs		Mischief-Makers	Double-Crossers	Crazy Allies	Double-Dealers	Double Agents	Rotten Eggs	Dumb Skulls	Drenched Stench	Scammer Hammer
Daisy	Flower Players	Tango Tanglers	Damsels in Success	Tomboy Trouble	Mischief-Makers		Double-Facers	Bloomy Shroomy	High Spirited Duo	Perfumed Shroomy	Gallopin' Gal-Pals	Daisy Pushers	Bloopsie-Daisy	Barn-Builders
Waluigi	'Stache Clashers	Lean 'n' Mean	Sweet 'n' Sour	Scrambled Eggs	Double-Crossers	Double-Facers		Half-Cranky Duo	Total Creeps	Half-Pranky Duo	Double Scammy	Boneheads	Bloop 'n' Snoop<	Stench Henchmen
Toad	Fungi Fun Guys	Savage Sidekicks	Loyal Friends	Good Buddies	Crazy Allies	Bloomy Shroomy	Half-Cranky Duo		Doom 'n' Shroom	Zoomin' Shrooms	Surprise Attackers	Short Ribs	Spray Players	Stealth Strikers
Boo	Soul Bros.	Scaredy Pants	Boo-for-Teas	Hovering Fiends	Double-Dealers	High Spirited Duo	Total Creeps	Doom 'n' Shroom		Boo Duet	Unfair Pair	Scary Pair	Creature Feature	Bad Vibes
Toadette	Marionettes	Cha-Cha Chasers	High-Flair Pair	Flutter Friends	Double Agents	Perfumed Shroomy	Half-Pranky Duo	Zoomin' Shrooms	Boo Duet		Pink Powerhouse	Double Trouble	Bloop-dee-doo	Smash Success
Birdo	Super Snozzios	Samba Smashers	Pink Superpowers	Egg Explosion	Rotten Eggs	Gallopin' Gal-Pals	Double Scammy	Surprise Attackers	Unfair Pair	Pink Powerhouse		Bone Chokers	What-the-Bloop	Two-Timers
Dry Bones	BBQ Ribs	Cry Bones	Dry Thrones	Sky Bones	Dumb Skulls	Daisy Pushers	Boneheads	Short Ribs	Scary Pair	Double Trouble	Bone Chokers		Two-Toned Duo	What-the-Deuce
Blooper	'Stache Splashers	Blooper Scoopers	Royal Flush	Double Dippers	Drenched Stench	Bloopsie-Daisy	Bloop 'n' Snoop	Spray Players	Creature Feature	Bloop-dee-doo	What-the-Bloop	Two-Toned Duo		Blooper Bros.
Hammer Bro	Heavy-Blow Bros.	Longtime-Foe Bros.	Glamour Hammer	Hungry Hammers	Scammer Hammer	Barn-Builders	Stench Henchmen	Stealth Strikers	Bad Vibes	Smash Success	Two-Timers	What-the-Deuce	Blooper Bros.

Default Partners

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

Non-playable

• MC Ballyhoo and Bigtop
• Donkey Kong
• Bowser
• Kamek
• Flutter
• Holly Koopa
• Captain Shy Guy
• Penguin
• Koopa Bellboy
• Bandit
• Mowz
• Toady
• Koopa
• Goomba
• Ukiki
• Spear Guy
• Red Boo
• King Boo
• Captain Goomba
• Pianta

  

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• Dolphin Shoals
• Pirate Goomba
• Shy Guy Conductor
• Whomp
• Thwomp
• Podoboo
• Seagulls
• Hawk

Board Maps

• DK's Treetop Temple
• Goomba's Booty Boardwalk
• King Boo's Haunted Hideaway
• Shy Guy's Perplex Express
• Koopa's Tycoon Town
• Bowser's Warped Orbit

Controversy

On July 13, the video game was recalled in the United Kingdom due to the word "spastic" in the game. "Spastic" is considered to be a highly offensive word in the United Kingdom. It was replaced with "erratic" on the re-release day August 3. The word "spastic" was used by Kamek in the phrase "...turn this train spastic...".

Gallery

To view Mario Party 8's image gallery, click here.

Trivia

• This is one of the two Mario Party games released on Wii. The other one the two for the system would be Mario Party 9.
• Not counting Miis, this game is one of the two installments of the Mario Party series to have Hammer Bro and Blooper as playable characters (the other being Super Mario Party).
• This is the second Mario Party game to feature Dry Bones as a playable character.
• This is the first Mario Party where the players' stats while playing in a board are not in the four corners of the screen. Instead, it is shown in a category in the top right corner.
• This is the only Mario Party game:
  • to show all the minigames from a selected category on the roulette wheel, instead of only three, four, five, or six.
  • which does not have Koopa Kid.
    • However, beginning in Mario Party DS, Koopa Kid was replaced by Bowser Jr..
      • Also, Bowser Jr. becomes a playable character in later installments (including Mario Party: Island Tour and Super Mario Party).
• With 14 characters (excluding Miis in the Extra Zone), Mario Party 8 has the second most playable characters in the Mario Party series.
• Mario Party 8 has the smallest amount of mini-games included in Mario Party: The Top 100 with only three.
• This game is the only known appearance of special candy items in any Mario game.
• This was the last game developed with the help of Hudson Soft.