Mario Party (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Hudson Soft |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Kenji Kikuchi |
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| Composer(s) | Yasunori Mitsuda |
| Series | Mario Party |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo 64 |
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| 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.