Mario Party 3
2000 party video game
Mario Party 3 is a 2000 party video game developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. The third installment in the Mario Party series, it was first released in Japan on December 7, 2000, in North America on May 7, 2001, in Australia on September 3, 2001, and in Europe on November 16, 2001. As with the previous installments, the player chooses between eight playable characters: Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Wario, and Donkey Kong from the first two games, alongside newcomers Princess Daisy and Waluigi. The game introduces duel maps, where two players try to lower each other's stamina to zero using non-player characters such as Chain Chomps.
Mario Party 3 received generally mixed reviews, with critics divided on its new minigames and gameplay features, and whether it was a meaningful improvement over its predecessors. It was a commercial success, with over 1 million copies sold worldwide, making it one of the best-selling Nintendo 64 games. The game was the final first-party Nintendo 64 title released in North America. It was followed by Mario Party 4 for the GameCube in 2002. Content from Mario Party 3 was remastered as part of Mario Party: The Top 100 (2017) for the Nintendo 3DS and Mario Party Superstars (2021) for the Nintendo Switch. The game received its first official re-release on the Nintendo Classics service on October 27, 2023.
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