Platform: Nintendo DS
Region: PAL
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Developer(s): Hudson Soft
Publishers(s): Nintendo
ReleaseDate: 2007-11-23
Players: 4
Co-op: Yes
Mario Party DS
Mario Party DS is the fourteenth instalment in the Mario Party series, the third for handheld consoles, and the only one for the Nintendo DS. This is the last Mario Party game to be developed by Hudson Soft, which was succeeded by NDcube in 2012. This Mario Party game is unique for having the characters to be shrunken down to a very small size and competing in a "mega world" for the majority of the game. It includes more than 70 new minigames and five new game boards. Its functions include touch control, microphone control and dual-screen challenges. It is possible for up to four players to play in wireless mode using only one game card. This is the only handheld instalment to feature the traditional Mario Party gameplay and would be the last instalment overall to feature it until Super Mario Party, released for the Nintendo Switch eleven years later. Mario Party DS was re-released for the Wii U through the Virtual Console on April 21, 2016 in North America and Europe, in Australia on April 22, 2016, and in Japan on April 27, 2016. It is the third and final Mario Party game to be rereleased for the Wii U's Virtual Console; the others being Mario Party 2 and Mario Party Advance.
ESRB Rating: E - Everyone
Genre(s): Board | Party
