Mario Party-e
North American box art
Developer	indieszero[1]
Publisher	Nintendo
Platform	Game Boy Advance
Release dates	February 17, 2003[2] February 17, 2003[2]
Language	English
Genre	Party
Mode	2–4 players
Format	Game Boy Advance: e-Reader card [A]
Input	Game Boy Advance: Gamepad
Serial code	PES-MPAE

Mario Party-e is a card game released on February 17, 2003 in North America only.^[2] It is compatible with thee-Reader accessory for theGame Boy Advance. The game makes use of artwork and characters fromMario 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 aminigame by scanning the card in the e-Reader. If they cannot, the winner is determined by a coin toss instead.

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  Superstar's Hat

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  Superstar's Clothes

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  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 inGamePro 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 SUPERMARIO, SUPERLUIGI, orDONKEY 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 theLAKITU card. There are 4 Search Cards in total.
• Chaos Cards: Used for taking or exchanging cards with other players. TheYOSHI 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 SUPERWARIO card costs 3 Coin Cards to use, and the SUPERWALUIGI 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

Daisy's Rodeo! card

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.

• Cast Away Mario!
• Mario's Mallet
• Daisy's Rodeo!
• Fast Feed Yoshi!

Wonder ChallengeFound 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.

• Lakitu's Luck
• Spinister Bowser

Duel ChallengeFound 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.

• Bolt from Boo
• Time Bomb Ticks!
• Waluigi's Reign
• Wario's Bluff
• Balloon Burst!

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]

Reviews of the card game are decently positive.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]

Gallery[edit]

Artwork[edit]

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  The game's logo

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  Mario

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  Luigi

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  Princess Peach

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  Big Boo

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  Boo

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  Chain Chomp

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  Bob-omb

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  Lakitu

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  Promotional artwork

Cards[edit]

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  Cards 1-9

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  Cards 10-18

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  Cards 19-27

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  Cards 28 and 29, as well as the back design for the cards.

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  RareGamePro Magazine Promotional Card

Game board[edit]

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  Full scan of game board

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  Bottom left corner of the game board

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  Bottom right corner of the game board

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  Top right corner of the game board

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  Top left corner of the game board

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  Center of the game board

Sprites[edit]

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  Big Boo

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  Daisy

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  Mario

Box art[edit]

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  Back of the game cover

Multimedia[edit]

For the complete list of media files for this subject, seeMultimedia:Mario Party-e.

e-Reader Theme

File info 0:30

Wario's Bluff

File info 0:20

Game Over 1

File info 0:04

e-Reader End Credits

File info 0:30

Help:Media file •Having trouble playing?

Notes[edit]

• Mario Party-e is the only game in theMario Party series in which Peach and Luigi are not playable, as well as the only game in whichDaisy is playable but not Peach.
• Mario Party-e is not listed on the "history" section of the official Mario Portal website,^[4] possibly because it was not released in Japan (as the section is ordered by Japanese release date).

Footnotes and references[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Instruction booklet, provided by Nintendo
• Spanish instructions
• French instructions

• Mario Party-e
• Games
• Game Boy Advance games
• America-only games
• 2003 games

• Pages with audio files