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Mario Party One is the first game in the Mario Party series. Each course is set out as a board game with interesting scenery. Each player rolls the dice and moves as many paces as they rolled just like in a normal board game but at the end of every turn, one everyone has rolled, all the players have to battle each other in a mini-game.
Mario Party One is the only game in the series that is good to play by yourself as it has a one-player adventure game called Mini-game Island. It was also more interesting at the time because it was the first one in the series. The other games only had mini-games and were only really fun when battling your friends or other real people.
Game-play
The goal of the game is to collect more stars than any other player. Stars will appear at random spots on the board and the players will have to find their way to the star. The player with the most stars at the end of the game will win.
Along the way the players have to collect coins by winning mini-games. They then use these coins to buy a star off toad when they reach the star spot on the board. At the end of the game three bonus stars are given out. One is for the player who landed on the most happening spaces, one is for the player who collected the most coins and the other is for the player who won the most mini-games.
Characters
The very first playable characters were Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Wario and Donkey Kong and these characters were used until Mario Party 3 came out and added Daisy and Waluigi.
The other main characters were Toad and Bowser but neither of them were playable.
4 Player Mini-games
The four player mini-games occurred when all characters ended up on the same coloured spot on the board. In Four player mini-games the characters would either have to vs. each other in a free for all mini-game or have to work together in a team game.
The four- Player mini-games in alphabetical order are:
Balloon Burst - Free for All - Players had to alternate between two buttons to pump the balloon and pop it before anyone else.
Bombs Away - Free for All - Players had to dodge bombs whilst stuck on a small island.
Box Mountain Mayhem - Free for All - Players have to grab boxes and smash them open, collecting the contents before everyone else.
Bumper Balls - Free for All - Players had do knock each other off the island and into the sea whilst on balls.
Buried Treasure - Free for All - Players had to dig to find treasure before anyone else did.
Cast A way's - Free for All
Coin Block Blitz - Free for All - Players had to knock the contents out of mystery boxes and collect it before anyone else.
Crazy Cutter - Free for All - Players had to cut out the shape of a monster from the game, such as boo, bob-omb or goomba.
Face Lift - Free for All - A face would be distorted automatically. The players would then have to stretch a copy of that face and try to make it look the same.
Grab Bag - Free for All - Players would get their coins strapped to a bag on their backs and would then have to try to steal from the others, trying to stop the others stealing from them at the same time.
Hot Bob-omb - Free for All - Players would have to throw a bob-omb to some one else before it exploded. The last one standing won.
Hot Rope Jump - Team - Players would have to work together to jump a flaming rope. If one person failed everyone failed.
Key-Pa-Way - Team - I THINK players had to work together to get the key to the other side of the room without being attacked by something or rather...
Mario Band Stand - Free for All - Players had to play their instrument when they were instructed. The player who made the least amount of mistakes won.
Musical Mushroom - Free for All - Music would play and the characters would go round and round the mushroom. When the music stopped players would have to race to the centre of the mushroom.
Platform Peril - Free for All - Players had to jump from platform to platform and race to the finish line. As they ran the platforms fell.
Running of the Bulb - Team - Players had to race a light bulb to the end of the course and plug it in to get rid of the boos, avoiding the boos along the way.
Shy Guy Says - Free for All - Shy guy holds up flags. The players have to press a button according to the colour of the flag. If they press the wrong button shy guy cuts the rope attaching their ship to the dock and sends them out to sea.
