Mario Party (video game)

Mario Party is a 1998 party video game developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. The game was targeted at a young audience. Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto served as development supervisor. The game was released in Japan on December 18, 1998, North America on February 8, 1999, and in PAL regions on March 9, 1999. It received mostly positive critical reviews for its multiplayer mode, concept, and music; disapproval of its slow pacing; and mixed reviews of its graphics. It is the first installment in the Mario Party series and was followed by Mario Party 2 in 1999. The game received its first official re-release on the Nintendo Classics service in 2022. Content from this game was remastered as part of Mario Party: The Top 100 for the Nintendo 3DS, Mario Party Superstars and Super Mario Party Jamboree for the Nintendo Switch. Read by Clay2004. Recorded February 16, 2024; the article may have changed since. The article as it stood when recorded: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1206151593 Article today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Party_(video_game) Original recording: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:En-Mario-Party-(video_game)-article.ogg License: CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0). This episode is a format-shifted (MP3) copy redistributed under the same license. This show is an independent community project, not affiliated with or endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation.