Mario Party 3
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Mario Party 3 is the third in a series of board game style video games for Nintendo platforms, featuring popular Nintendo characters. It was released for the Nintendo 64 in North America on May 7, 2001 following a Japanese release on December 7, 2000. It was released in Europe much later (as the final Nintendo 64 game to be released in the territory) on November 16, 2001.
Mario Party 3 was the last Mario Party released on the Nintendo 64. A total of eight characters are available to choose from: Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Wario, Donkey Kong and the new Waluigi and Princess Daisy. Mario Party 3 features duel maps, in which two players try to steal each other's coins using non-playable characters such as chomps.
Gameplay
| Mario Party series |
| Nintendo 64 |
| Nintendo GameCube |
| Game Boy Advance |
| e-Reader |
Players take turns moving around the board by hitting a dice block, the game's equivalent of rolling a die. The character moves the given number of spaces and may trigger special actions or events by passing or landing on certain spaces. After all four characters have moved, a minigame begins. Minigames can also be triggered by certain special event spaces.
This game introduces story mode to the series, in which one player starts a campaign through every board, challenging computer controlled opponents at a shortened version of party mode. The player's objective is to defeat the other characters and earn stamps from the Millennium Star.
The game, as usual, contains a standard party mode in which up to four players play through a board.
Battle minigames are featured here as in Mario Party 2. These games are like the 4-player games, but generally more elaborate. Battle games are usually tense because every player has to put a certain number of coins (from 10 - 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.
Duel games pit two players against each other. In Party Mode, one player initiates the duel, and bet coins or a star against another player. The winner of the duel wins all of the coins or stars in the bet.
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 compete 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.
New to this edition are Game Guy minigames. When a character landed on a Game Guy space, he/she is forced to surrender all of his/her coins and play a chance- based minigame. If the game is won, the character multiplied their coins, usually twofold. However, if the game is lost, then the character will not receive his/her coins back. These games proved to be unpopular and were not continued in subsequent Mario Parties.
Playable characters
- Mario
- Luigi
- Princess Peach
- Yoshi
- Wario
- Donkey Kong
- Princess Daisy (new character)
- Waluigi (new character)
List of boards
Battle Royal
- Chilly Waters
- Deep Blooper Sea
- Woody Woods
- Creepy Cavern
- Spiny Desert
- Waluigi's Island (Clear Story Mode)
Duel
- Gate Guy
- Arrowhead
- Pipesqueek
- Blowhard
- Mr. Mover
- Backtracks (Clear Story Mode)
Mini-games
4 Player
- Mario's Puzzle Party : Similar to Tetris
- Water Whirled : Race around in a little boat
- Snowball Summit : Snowball your enemies off the summit
- Toadstool Titan : Find a Super Shroom, and clobber your enemies
- Frigid Bridges : Find 3 pieces of an ice bridge
- Awful Tower : Get to the top of the tower
- Chip Shot Challenge : Get your golf ball as close to the hole as possible
- Messy Memory : Clean up the shelves the way they were before
- Cheep Cheep Chase : Swim away from a Cheep Cheep and dodge bombs
- Treadmill Grill : Run around on a giant treadmill dodging fireballs
- Ice Rink Risk : Run around on ice dodging Spinies
- Parasol Plummet : Collect coins falling in a parasol
- Picture Imperfect : Try to match up the middle picture as close as possible
- M.P.I.Q. : Answer 3 questions right
- Aces High : Destroy your enemies on a little plane
- Bounce 'N' Trounce : Bounce around on balls and knock your enemies off the edge
- The Beat Goes On : Remember the sequence
- Pipe Cleaners : Whack Baby Bowsers in pipes
- Rockin' Raceway : Win a race on a hobby horse
1 Vs. 3
- Coconut Conk- 1st player- Dodge the others' coconuts, 3 others- hit the first player
- Spotlight Swim- 1st player- Don't get caught, 3 others- Shine on the 1st player
- Boulder Ball- 1st player- Knock out all of the others, 3 others- get to the top
- Crazy Cogs- 1st player- Knock out all of the others, 3 others- avoid the Bullet Bills
- Hide And Sneak- 1st player- find the others, 3 others- don't get caught
- River Raiders
- Tidal Toss- 1st player- Knock out all of the others, 3 others- don't get hit by waves
- Hand, Line, And Sinker- 1st player- Fish for the others, 3 others- don't get caught
- Ridiculous Relay- 1st player- race to the finish with a hang glider, 3 others, race to the finish in a rowboat, robot, and motorboat
- Thwomp Pull- press buttons to control Thwomps in a race (1st player presses 3 buttons, 3 others press one button each)
2 Vs. 2
- Eatsa Pizza- Eat a half of a pizza as fast as you can
- Baby Bowser Broadside- Shoot the Baby Bowser balloon
- Cosmic Coaster- Dodge obstacles to reach the finish
- Puddle Paddle- Collect as many coins as you can
- Log Jam- Chop as many logs as you can
- Pump, Pump And Away- Launch the rocket as high as you can
- Hyper Hydrants-Put out Podoboos
- Picking Panic- Collect cherries and throw them in a basket
- Etch 'N' Catch- Rescue Toads from paper with a magic marker (literally)
- Slot Synch- Match up symbols to receive points
Battle
- Stacked Deck- Free Toads, but beware Koopa Kids and Boos
- Three Door Monty- Remember who is in which door
- Merry-Go-Chomp- Survive until the end
- Locked Out- Grab the correct key for the door
- All Fired Up- Dodge an onslaught of Podoboos
- Slap Down- Slap your hand down on the right flower
- Storm Chasers- Make sure you get the most water
- Eye Sore- Circle around a Mr. I to destroy it
Item
- Winner's Wheel- Stop a wheel to get an item
- Hey, Batter, Batter!- Hit a ball to get an item
- Bobbing Bow- Loons- Shoot an arrow to get an item
- Dorrie Dip- Grab an item with Dorrie the Sea Monster
- Swinging With Sharks- Swing off a swing to reach an item
- Swing 'N' Swipe- Whack a Koopa Kid to get an item
Duel
- Vine With Me- Swing to the end
- Popgun Pick- Off- Shoot Baby Bowsers, but don't hit Toad
- End Of The Line- Reach the end
- Baby Bowser Bonkers- Whack as many Baby Bowsers as you can
- Silly Screws- REach the end
- Crowd Cover- Guess the correct picture
- Tick Tock Hop- Survive the longest
- Bowser Toss- Toss a Bowser toy as far as you can
- Motor Rooter- Race through a tunnel
- Fowl Play- Grab a chicken first
Game Guy
- Game Guy's Lucky 7- Reach the top, but don't fall off
- Game Guy's Sweet Surprise- Guess the Chomp who will eat the most cake
- Game Guy's Roulette- Guess which slot the ball will stop in
- Game Guy's Magic Boxes- Find Toad, but do not find Baby Bowser
Special
- Stardust Battle (complete in Story Mode)
- Dizzy Dinghies (unlock the other 64 mini- games in boardplay)
- Mario's Puzzle Party Pro (collect 1000 coins in Game Guy's Gameroom)
Trivia
Mini-game name puns
- Water Whirled is a pun on Waterworld.
- Awful Tower is named after and sounds vaguely similar to the Eiffel Tower.
- Picture Imperfect is a fractional opposite the phrase picture perfect.
- Hide And Sneak is a pun on Hide and seek.
- Pump, Pump And Away is a pun on the phrase up, up, and away.
- Merry- Go- Chomp is a cross between a chain chomp and Merry-go-round.
- Eye Sore is a pun on the phrase eyesore.
- Vine With Me is a cross between vines and fine with me.
- Motor Rooter is a pun on Roto-Rooter.
- Fowl Play is a cross bewteen fowls(birds) and foul play.
- Etch N' Catch is a pun on Etch-a-Sketch
External links
- [Mario Party 3] at MobyGames
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