Mario Party (video game)

Mario Party
North American box art
Developer(s)Hudson Soft
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Director(s)Kenji Kikuchi
Producer(s)
  • Shinji Hatano
  • Shinichi Nakamoto
Composer(s)Yasunori Mitsuda
SeriesMario Party
Platform(s)Nintendo 64
Release
  • JP: December 18, 1998
  • NA: February 8, 1999
  • PAL: March 9, 1999
Genre(s)Party
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

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. 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.