Product Overview
- Product Name: Mario Party
- New or Used: Used
- In Box or Loose: Loose
- Overall Condition: Good
- Save Battery Status*: Not Applicable โ Does Not Use Battery
- Notes:
Photos show actual product for sale โ no stock images used.
What's Included
- N64 Game Cartridge: Yes
- Manual / Instructions: No
- Original Retail Box: No
- Extras:
Game Description
Grab your friends, roll the dice, and get ready for the ultimate Mushroom Kingdom showdown! Mario Party brings Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Wario, and Donkey Kong together for a wild competition to determine who deserves the title of Super Star. Journey across colorful adventure boards, collect Coins, purchase precious Stars, and battle your rivals in outrageous mini-games where anything can happen. But watch out โ Bowser is always lurking nearby, ready to turn your perfect strategy into a spectacular disaster! With four-player multiplayer, unpredictable board-game action, and classic Nintendo characters, every turn delivers another chance for victory, betrayal, and unforgettable laughter.
Think you've got what it takes to outsmart your friends? Explore six character-themed Adventure Boards, including Peach's Birthday Cake, DK's Jungle Adventure, Yoshi's Tropical Island, and Mario's Rainbow Castle, with additional boards waiting to be unlocked. Compete in more than 50 mini-games featuring frantic button-mashing contests, tricky obstacle courses, memory challenges, and battles of pure reflexes. Survive the spinning platforms of Bumper Balls, race for treasure in Buried Treasure, and test your timing in Mushroom Mix-Up. Between rounds, steal Stars with Boo, dodge Bowser's nasty surprises, and watch your carefully planned lead disappear in an instant!
There's a reason the original Mario Party still brings back memories of crowded living rooms, fierce rivalries, and friendships temporarily put on hold! Challenge up to four players in competitive board-game battles, tackle the single-player Mini-Game Island, or unlock favorite challenges for repeat play in the Mini-Game House. Every dice roll brings another surprise, and even a player trailing far behind can steal victory with a perfectly timed Star purchase or lucky event. Developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo in 1999, this physical Nintendo 64 cartridge release is the game that started an extraordinary multiplayer franchise โ and an essential centerpiece for collectors celebrating Nintendo's golden age of couch gaming.
Gameplay Features
- Play as Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, Wario, or Donkey Kong in the original four-player party showdown.
- Explore six themed Adventure Boards and unlock Bowser's Magma Mountain and Eternal Star.
- Compete in over 50 mini-games, including Bumper Balls, Mushroom Mix-Up, and Buried Treasure.
- Collect Coins, buy Stars from Toad, steal from rivals with Boo, and survive Bowser's nasty surprises.
- Conquer Mini-Game Island's nine world maps in a challenging single-player mini-game adventure.
- Unlock favorite challenges in the Mini-Game House and compete in Mini-Game Stadium battles.
Legacy and Influence
Before Mario Party, Mario and his friends were already superstars of platforming, kart racing, and sports. Hudson Soft gave them an entirely new way to compete, combining the suspense of a tabletop board game with the instant excitement of arcade-style mini-games. Its brilliant formula was simple: roll the dice, chase Stars, survive unpredictable events, and settle the score through quick contests that anyone could learn. The result was a new kind of Nintendo multiplayer experience, one that rewarded strategy, reflexes, teamwork, and outrageous luck in equal measure. What began as a playful competition became the foundation for one of Nintendo's most recognizable party-game franchises.
The original Mario Party helped define the Nintendo 64 as a four-player party console, joining favorites such as Mario Kart 64, GoldenEye 007, and Super Smash Bros. in making local multiplayer a major part of the system's identity. Its combination of character-themed boards, Star collecting, unpredictable events, and rotating mini-game competitions established the framework that later installments would expand with new boards, characters, and mechanics. From Mario Party 2 and Mario Party 3 to modern entries such as Super Mario Party Jamboree, the series continues building on the original's winning formula. Few Nintendo 64 games capture the joy โ and hilarious chaos โ of playing together quite so perfectly.
Historical Trivia or Fun Fact
Mario Party debuted in Japan in December 1998 before arriving in North America on February 8, 1999, marking the beginning of Nintendo and Hudson Soft's hugely successful party-game collaboration. Its memorable soundtrack was composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, best known for his acclaimed work on Chrono Trigger and Xenogears. The original game also became famous for its demanding Control Stick rotation mini-games, including Tug o' War and Pedal Power, which prompted complaints about sore palms and led Nintendo to offer protective gaming gloves to affected players. That unusual chapter in gaming history helped make the first Mario Party one of the Nintendo 64's most talked-about multiplayer releases.
Additional Details
- Variant: Standard Release
- Genre: Music & Party
- Year Released: 1999
- Publisher: Nintendo
- Developer: Hudson Soft
- ESRB Rating: E - Everyone
- UPC: 045496870393
- SKU: 3819
- Format: Nintendo 64 Physical Video Game Cartridge
- Platform: Nintendo 64 System (N64 Video Game Console)
- Region: NTSC (North America, Canada)
Important Information
- *Save battery (if present) has been tested or replaced and is verified working at the time of listing.
- Photos show the exact item for sale โ we never use stock images for used games.
- All used items are cleaned, tested, and 100% guaranteed to work.
- Backed by Retro Game Fanโs 60-day warranty.
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