Mario Party 5

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• Title — Mario Party 5 • Developer — Hudson Soft • Publisher — Nintendo • Director — Kenji Kikuchi • Producer — Hiroshi Sato Atsushi Ikeda • Designer — Shinichi Nakata • Composer — Aya Tanaka • Series — Mario Party • Platforms — GameCube • Genre — Party • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer

• Illustration — Gameplay takes place on themed game boards. Shown is Princess Daisy traversing the "Sweet Dream" board, which reflect cakes and other desserts. The four players' game statistics are displayed in each corner. Mario Party 5 is a party video game based on an interactive board game played by four characters from the Mario franchise. The game features 10 playable characters in total. New characters included Toad, Boo, and Baby Bowser. In the game, which features six game boards, players roll a dice and walk on squares which either add or subtract player's coins or randomly trigger one of the 70 minigames. Some mini-games are variations of mini-games from previous Mario Party games. In comparison with previous Mario Party games, the boards in this one are larger. The goal of the game is to collect the most stars, while sabotaging opponents. Coins can be obtained and lost while playing minigames and when collecting capsules. A minigame is played at the end of each round. During gameplay, mini-game rules are determined by the results of the players' moves and are grouped by type. Special mini-games include Bowser mini-games, which pit players against Bowser in a game without rewards, and DK mini-games, which feature Donkey Kong and reward all players. Additional categories—easy, action, skill, and goofy—allow the players to designate which games will appear during a play through. A new power-up system replaced older mechanics from previous games; capsules are now obtained from vending machines on the board; they have random and unclear effects. Players can place capsules on board spaces to affect whoever passes by. These capsules grant power-ups such as extra dice rolls, limiting opponents' movement, and the ability to steal coins. Each minigame can be accessed individually in a separate gamemode, once unlocked. Additional game modes, include the single-player campaign titled Story Mode, in which the player plays with artificial intelligence (AI)-controlled players, the Super Duel mode, in which the players battle against each other in vehicles, and the Bonus mode, which includes games for four players, such as volleyball, ice hockey, and cards. In the Story Mode, the player faces three Baby Bowsers; turns are taken simultaneously to speed up gameplay. The goal is to steal all their coins. In the Super Duel Mode, players earn coins, buy parts, and build custom battle machines.

Mario Party 5 was developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. Nintendo first unveiled the game at the E3 conference in 2003, where eight mini-games were available in a playable demonstration. An unspecified release date in 2003 was also publicized. Other details included that new characters would be introduced, there would be more minigames than its predecessor, and duel minigames would return. A demo of the game was released in North America via a special edition bonus disc packaged with Mario Kart: Double Dash (2003). Mario Party 5 was released on November 11, 2003, in the North America, November 28 in Japan, and December 5 in Europe. Following the release, Nintendo announced Mario Party 5 as a "Player's Choice" title, which is a label for Nintendo titles that had sold more than one million copies to be sold at a bargain price.

Mario Party 5 is described in the collections that hold this material as Publication is recorded by Nintendo. The recorded date of publication is 2003. It belongs to the series Mario Party. It is associated with Japan. Recorded genres are party video game.