40 Fun Facts About Mario Party 4

Mario Party 4 was the first game in the series to be released on which Nintendo console?

GameCube was the series' new home after three entries on the Nintendo 64, and reviewers praised the improved graphics, the characters above all.

Which occasion are Toad and the other hosts celebrating in Mario Party 4's Story Mode?

The player's birthday is the reason for the party, but each host makes the guest of honour win the present by beating them at a special minigame.

How do players avoid being flattened by the giant turning pages in Mario Party 4's Booksquirm?

Standing under holes cut in each page keeps a player safe, and the pages turn faster with fewer openings until one survivor is left.

Which Mario Party 4 item makes a player roll two Dice Blocks and flatten rivals for their coins?

Mega Mushroom users grow huge and squash anyone they pass for 10 coins, but the catch is that a giant walks straight past Star Spaces and shops.

In Mario Party 4's hide-and-seek minigame, where do the three team players hide from their hunter?

Inside cannons, and the solo player gets three chances to light the right fuse and blast the hiders into the sky in Hide and Go BOOM!

Which sport is played in Three Throw, a Mario Party 4 minigame with three moving rows of targets?

Basketball is the game, and a shot into the faster middle row scores two points instead of one, while a filled hoop is closed to everyone else.

Toad's Midway Madness, the board Toad hosts in Mario Party 4, is modelled on what kind of place?

An amusement park is the theme, complete with a roller coaster that costs five coins to ride and tea cups that change a player's direction.

Mario Party 4's three Bowser minigames, including one played with darts, share which name ending?

of Doom ends all three names, Darts, Fruits and Balloon, and each game finishes with Bowser burning whichever player comes last.

Which animals ferry players between fruit-marked docks on Koopa's Seaside Soiree in Mario Party 4?

Dolphins are summoned by landing on a Happening Space beside a dock, and the ride to the matching dock cannot be refused.

Mario Medley, a three-lap Mario Party 4 race with a stamina meter, takes place where?

A swimming pool hosts the race, and each of the three laps uses a different stroke, so a racer who drains the stamina meter slows right down.

Mario Speedwagons in Mario Party 4, where players shift gears on cue, is which kind of motorsport?

Drag racing is the event, and each dragster punishes a gear change made too early or too late, while flooring it at the start barely shifts the car.

In the Mario Party 4 minigame where players ink a drawing pad, their stamps are ridden like which toy?

A pogo stick is the model for each bouncing stamp, and whoever covers most of the pad, even over a rival's colour, wins Stamp Out!

What do the three team players use to put out the flame in Mario Party 4's Candlelight Flight?

Water guns do the job, but the room is dark, firing roots a shooter to the spot, and it takes five hits to douse the solo player's candle.

Which costly Mario Party 4 item carries its user straight to the Star, which must still be bought?

Magic Lamp summons a genie who flies the player to the Star Space, and at 30 coins it is the joint dearest item in the shop.

What happens to a player struck by a snowball in Mario Party 4's Mr. Blizzard's Brigade?

They freeze into ice for the rest of the game, and more Mr. Blizzards gather around the pond as time goes on.

Which studio, the main developer of the series until Mario Party 9, made Mario Party 4 for Nintendo?

Hudson Soft made the game, and its director Kenji Kikuchi had already directed the first three entries in the series.

Despite its sprinting name, Photo Finish in Mario Party 4 asks the four players to complete what?

A jigsaw puzzle of eight pieces is the task, and the winner then jumps into the finished picture, which might show a penguin's skating rink or a Shy Guy's car.

In the Mario Party 4 minigame where four players flee an avalanche, how do they travel downhill?

On skis, with ramps giving a burst of speed and rocks tripping anyone careless, and the first to leap off the cliff at the finish wins Avalanche!

Which pencil-and-paper game lends its name to a team mode in Mario Party 4's Mini-Game Mode?

Tic-Tac-Toe Mode has two teams claim squares on a 3-by-3 grid by winning minigames, and three coins in a line take the match.

What centrepiece of Goomba's Greedy Gala, Mario Party 4's casino board, decides which area a player enters?

A roulette wheel splits the board into four sections, and a player can pay the Goomba in charge 5, 10 or 20 coins to shift the odds toward the Star.

Which Mario Party 4 minigame for two pairs has partners pull switches and spin levers for each other?

Dungeon Duos makes each pair take turns lowering walls and cranking platforms across a pit, and two partners turning levers together speed the machine up.

In Mario Party 4's Long Claw of the Law, what shows players which enemy to grab three times?

A Wanted poster names the target, which could be a Goomba, a Boo or a Chain Chomp, and grabbing any other enemy slams the door shut at once.

Mario Party 4 took home which prize at the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' annual awards?

Family Game of the Year went to the game at the 2003 ceremony, a bright spot for a title whose reviews were mixed.

Mario Party 4's last Extra Room unlock, hosted by a Ztar, is a minigame based on which sport?

Volleyball is the sport in Beach Volley Folly, which opens only once every other Extra Room minigame is unlocked and lets hosts such as Toad take the court.

After Bowser is beaten in Mario Party 4's Story Mode, the final surprise gift appears as what?

A constellation of the winning character's victory pose lights up the night sky, and it is then kept in the Present Room with the other prizes.

In Mario Party 4's Barrel Baron, an Extra Room minigame, what does the player dig for with a pickaxe?

Oil is the prize, and three swings of the pickaxe at the right spot release a small, medium or large stream worth 1, 10 or 100 points.

In Mario Party 4's Trace Race, players follow a winding guideline with a giant version of what?

Crayon in hand, each player traces a path across a giant clipboard, and the win goes to the most accurate line, not the fastest.

In Mario Party 4's Hop or Pop, the solo player chases three rivals while rolling around inside what?

A spiky ball carries the solo player, who must burst all three rivals' balloons within 45 seconds or the whole team wins.

On Bowser's Gnarly Party in Mario Party 4, what happens to a stone bridge crossed three times?

It collapses, and a new bridge then appears leading the other way, so the route across the lava keeps changing.

What threatens to knock the roped-together climbers back down in Mario Party 4's Cliffhangers?

Strong winds are the danger, and a rumble of the pad warns each pair to cling on until the gust has passed.

In Bowser's Bigger Blast, a Mario Party 4 remake of a Mario Party 2 game, what knocks a player out?

Pushing the wrong pump sets off a glass bomb shaped like Bowser's head, and since only one pump is rigged, the game is pure luck.

In Mario Party 4, what does the Chomp Call item do when its four small Chain Chomps appear?

Moves the Star Space, because the Chomps surround the host who is holding the Star and frighten them off to a new location.

Which flying creature offers players a lift across Shy Guy's Jungle Jam in Mario Party 4?

Klepto the condor asks each passing player whether they want carrying to the bottom-right corner of the board.

In Mario Party 4's Domination, players hammer a switch to raise rows of which enemies as dominoes?

Whomps spring up with every press during a ten-second burst, then each player topples the line, and the longest run of fallen slabs wins.

Which Mario Party 4 item automatically scares away a Boo sent to steal its holder's coins or Stars?

Gaddlight is a flashlight that its holder shines at the thief without lifting a finger, and it is used up once it has frightened the ghost away.

On Boo's Haunted Bash in Mario Party 4, the Mystery Train that carries players is a row of four what?

Coffins, four of them and transparent, make up the train, which only runs while the Red Boo bridges have vanished.

In Mario Party 4's Kareening Koopas, how do players steer four Koopa Shells around their board?

By tilting the table, each player rolls the shells into four slots, and the first to clear three boards wins, though a shell moving too fast skips straight past.

In Mario Party 4's Mushroom Medic, how does the player tell which of five patients is really ill?

By controller vibration: the pad pulses with each patient's heartbeat, and the one whose rhythm differs gets the pill.

Which Party Mode rule set, new in Mario Party 4, splits the four players into two pairs?

Team Match made its debut here, though partners keep separate coin totals and share only their items.

Archaeologuess, the Mario Party 4 Story minigame played against Shy Guy, is a contest of what kind?

Odd one out is the test: five shapes appear, one differs slightly, and a bad guess brings the shape crashing down on the guesser.