Ring Leader

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Ring Leader
Ring Leader from Mario Party 9
Appears in Mario Party 9
Type Free-for-All minigame
Music track Island Activities
Music sample

Ring Leader is a Free-for-All minigame featured in Mario Party 9 .

Overview[edit ]

Before the game starts, the camera gets a close-up shot of the players as they jump, and then again as they approach the starting line.

Players try to earn points by jumping their Dolphins through floating rings. Red rings can be reached with a simple thrust of the Wii Remote, but gold rings require the players to dive (by holding A Button) so that they can do a higher jump. Occasionally, there are several consecutive rings, which require good timing to get through all of them. The player with the highest score at the end of the course wins. The highest possible score is 40 points.

This minigame also appears in Perspective Mode, where the camera is positioned behind the player and zoomed in, making it harder to know when to jump at the right moment.

In-game text[edit ]

  • Rules – "Jump your Dolphin through the floating rings. Red rings are worth one point, and the higher gold rings are worth three points."
  • Controls – "Hold the Wii Remote vertically. Swing the Wii Remote upward to make your Dolphin jump. Hold A Button to dive, and then swing the Wii Remote upward to perform a high jump."

Gallery[edit ]

Naming[edit ]

Ring Leader's name is a pun on "ringleader," which is a term for a person who leads others, especially in opposition to authority.

Names in other languages[edit ]

Language Name Meaning Note(s) Ref.
Japanese リフトンライド
Rifutonraido		 Dolphin ride [?]
Chinese 便車海豚騎乘賽
Biàn chē hǎitún qí chéng sài		 Dolphin-Hitchhiking Race [?]
French Hue, Dauphin ! Gee, Dolphin! [?]
German Ringelrein Into the ring, pun on Ringelreihen ("Ring Around the Rosie") [?]
Italian Delfì acrobatici Acrobatic Dolphins [?]
Spanish La carrera delfinitiva The 'Dolphinitive' Race; delfinitiva is a pun on delfin ("dolphin") and definitiva ("definitive"). [?]
Minigames from Mario Party 9
Free-for-All minigames 10 to Win • Ballistic Beach • Billistics • Bomb Barge • Buddy Bounce • Bumper Bubbles • Card Smarts • Chain Event • Don't Look • Flinger Painting • Fungi Frenzy • Goomba Bowling • Goomba Spotting • Goomba Village • Growing Up • Jigsaw Jumble • Launch Break • Logger Heads • Magma Mayhem • Manor of Escape • Mecha Choice • Peak Precision • Pianta Pool • Pier Pressure • Pinball Fall • Piranha Patch • Pit or Platter • Pizza Me, Mario • Player Conveyor • Plunder Ground • Polar Extreme • Ring Leader • Skipping Class • Skyjinks • Smash Compactor • Snow Go • Speeding Bullets • Thwomper Room • Toad and Go Seek • Tuber Tug • Tumble Temple • Twist Ending • Upward Mobility • Urn It
1-vs.-Rivals minigames Block and Roll • Hazard Hold • Hole Hogs • Line in the Sand • Mob Sleds • Pix Fix • Ruins Rumble • Spike-n-Span • Tackle Takedown • Weird Wheels
Bowser Jr. minigames Bowser Pop • Bumper Sparks • Cage Match • Crossfire Caverns • Double Pounder • Mecha March • Pair of Aces • Pedal to the Paddle • Sand Trap • Zoom Room
Boss minigames Blooper Barrage • Bombard King Bob-omb • Bowser's Block Battle • Bowser Jr. Breakdown • Chain Chomp Romp • Cheep Cheep Shot • Deck Dry Bones • Diddy's Banana Blast • DK's Banana Bonus • King Boo's Puzzle Attack • Sock It to Lakitu • Spike Strike • Whomp Stomp • Wiggler Bounce
Extra minigames Goomba Bowling • Castle Clearout • Perspective Mode • Shell Soccer