Mario Party-e
| Mario Party-e | |
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| Mario Party-e boxart North American box art | |
| Developer | indieszero [1] |
| Publisher | Nintendo |
| Platform | Game Boy Advance |
| Release dates | USA February 17, 2003[2] Canada February 17, 2003[2] |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Party |
| Mode | 2–4 players |
| Format | Game Boy Advance: e-Reader card [A]
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| Input | Game Boy Advance:
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| Serial code | USA PES-MPAE |
Mario Party-e is a card game released on February 17, 2003 in North America only.[2] It is compatible with the e-Reader accessory for the Game Boy Advance. The game makes use of artwork and characters from Mario Party 4 .
Gameplay[edit ]
The game includes 64 cards, a playboard, and an instruction booklet. A 2-player game involves 58 cards as well as removing two of the superstar item cards from the deck set; a 3-player game features 51 and only one less of each Item card from the deck set; and 4-player uses all 64 cards. The cards are first shuffled before each player gets five, the number they are required to have each turn, while the others are face-down. A player draws a card for their turn before either using one, placing it face-up, or putting it into the discard pile. After a card is used, it is put into the discard pile. A player wins by getting the three Item cards before placing the Superstar Card.
Certain cards require players to play a minigame by scanning the card in the e-Reader. If they cannot, the winner is determined by a coin toss instead.
Superstar's Hat
Superstar's Clothes
Superstar's Shoes
Card types[edit ]
- Coin Cards: These are required for certain cards, and those cards have small coin icons that determine how much they cost to use. There are 24 Coin Cards in total, with a "Special Bonus Card" representing two Coins available in GamePro magazine issue #177 making a 25th.
- Item Cards: They are the Superstar’s Shoes, Superstar’s Clothes and Superstar’s Hat, and each cost two coins to play. Playing an Item Card requires the player to discard two Coin Cards. There are 12 Item Cards in total, but the number of each item in the deck should be equal to the number of players in the game.
- Superstar Cards: When played, if the player who used it has at least one of all three item card types, they win. Otherwise, an opponent's Item Card can be taken. There are 4 Superstar Cards in total.
- Blocker Cards: For a coin, a player can use one to stop an opponent for stealing their card in-play or in their hand. Additionally, if the player uses SUPER MARIO, SUPER LUIGI, or DONKEY KONG, they can spend an additional coin to steal that opponent's in-play or hand card. These cannot be played on your turn, and when used to block an opponent, the player must draw a card after use to replenish their five card hand. There are 5 Blocker Cards in total.
- Search Cards: The player can trade some of their cards from the deck or discard pile. They require one Coin Card to play except for the LAKITU card. There are 4 Search Cards in total.
- Chaos Cards: Used for taking or exchanging cards with other players. The YOSHI card costs 2 Coin Cards. If the player does not have enough coin-cards to play, the player may play a Free-Challenge Minigame on the e-Reader to use the card. There are 10 Chaos Cards in total.
- Duel Cards: They are used to battle another player in one of the e-Reader minigames for one of their cards either in their hand or in-play. The SUPER WARIO card costs 3 Coin Cards to use, and the SUPER WALUIGI card requires one Coin Card to use. If the player does not have an e-Reader, the duel can be decided by a coin toss to battle each other. There are 5 in total.
Minigames[edit ]
There are certain cards which can be used to play minigames on the Game Boy Advance with the e-Reader. There are eleven games in total.
Free Challenge
Found on the Search Cards. If the player cannot afford to use the card, they may play a minigame on the e-Reader and win to play it. If the player loses, they discard the card without using its effect. There are 4 Free Challenges in total.
Wonder Challenge Found on one Search Card and one Chaos Card. The player plays a roulette on the e-Reader by scanning the card, followed by an outcome determined by the wheel. There are 2 Wonder Challenges in total.
Duel Challenge Found on the Duel Cards. Two players will compete in a minigame, and whichever one wins will be rewarded, usually by taking the loser's cards. There are 5 Duel Challenges in total.
Characters[edit ]
Playable[edit ]
- Mario (in Cast Away Mario!, Mario's Mallet, Bolt from Boo, Time Bomb Ticks!, Waluigi's Reign, and the game board)
- Yoshi (in Fast Feed Yoshi! and on the game board)
- Wario (in Wario's Bluff, appears as the balloon in Balloon Burst! and on the game board)
- Waluigi (in Time Bomb Ticks!, appears as an NPC in Waluigi's Reign)
- Princess Daisy (in Daisy's Rodeo)
Non-playable[edit ]
- Luigi (appears in Mario's Mallet)
- Goomba (appears in Mario's Mallet)
- Donkey Kong (cameo on the game board)
- Toad (cameo on the game board)
- Bowser (appears in Spinister Bowser, appears as the mechanical bull in Daisy's Rodeo!)
- Big Boo (appears in Bolt from Boo)
- Boos (cameo on the game board)
- Princess Peach (appears in Cast Away Mario!, Mario's Mallet, and the game board)
- Cheep Cheep (appears in Cast Away Mario!)
- Blurp (appears in Cast Away Mario!)
- Rip Van Fish (appears in Cast Away Mario!)
- Sidestepper (appears in Cast Away Mario!)
- Shy Guy (appears in Fast Feed Yoshi!)
- Lakitu (appears in Lakitu's Luck)
Staff[edit ]
- Main article: List of Mario Party-e staff
Reception[edit ]
At release, IGN's Craig Harris rated the game 8.0, saying that the game is "easy to pick up and play", while suggesting that if Nintendo made booster packs that maximize the fun by adding more challenges, and utilizing the e-Reader, it would be a welcome addition. [3] Retrospectively, the card game has garnered negative reception in the following years, with both TheGamer and Digital Trends listing it at the bottom of their Mario Party games ranked lists. Jesse Lennox of Digital Trends condemned the game for boiling down to "playing a card game in real life and occasionally picking up your GBA to play a minigame using a card", and stated that "At this point, they might as well have just made an actual board game",[4] while Daniel Alvarez and PJ Molloy of TheGamer called it "An Interesting Experiment, But Nothing More" and "definitely the worst Mario Party game for those looking to have a proper fun time".[5]
Gallery[edit ]
Artwork[edit ]
The game's logo
Promotional artwork
Cards[edit ]
Cards 1-9
Cards 10-18
Cards 19-27
Cards 28 and 29, as well as the back design for the cards.
Rare GamePro Magazine Promotional Card
Game board[edit ]
Full scan of game board
Bottom left corner of the game board
Bottom right corner of the game board
Top right corner of the game board
Top left corner of the game board
Center of the game board
Sprites[edit ]
Big Boo
Daisy
Mario
Box art[edit ]
Back of the game cover
Multimedia[edit ]
- For the complete list of media files for this subject, see Multimedia:Mario Party-e.
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Notes[edit ]
- Mario Party-e is the only game in the Mario Party series in which Peach and Luigi are not playable, as well as the only game in which Daisy is playable but not Peach.
- Mario Party-e is not listed on the "history" section of the official Mario Portal website,[6] possibly because it was not released in Japan (as the section is ordered by Japanese release date).
Footnotes and references[edit ]
Footnotes[edit ]
- ^ Required specifically for any of the 11 minigames.
References[edit ]
- ^ Mario Party-e(北米地域のみ). indieszero (Japanese). Archived March 27, 2023, 08:42:50 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
- ^ a b c 2003年2月17日. indieszero (Japanese). Archived March 27, 2023, 08:42:50 UTC from the original via Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
- ^ Harris, Craig (February 25, 2003). Mario Party-e Review. IGN (English). Retrieved August 9, 2024.
- ^ Lennox, Jesse (April 21, 2022). The Best Mario Party Games, Ranked From Best To Worst. Digital Trends. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
- ^ Alvarez, Daniel; Molloy, PJ (October 29, 2024). Best Mario Party Games, Ranked. TheGamer. Retrieved March 19, 2026.
- ^ History. Mario Portal website (English). Retrieved August 9, 2024.