Mario Party 8 slips

By Robert Purchese Published 20 June, 2007

Blames footwear.

Nintendo has spread word that Mario Party 8 won't be out this Friday as planned.

Instead, production issues with the English version have pushed the family-orientated game back to 13th July in the UK.

Mario Party 8 is a game to break out with friends and family. It's based around a virtual board where each square represents a new mini-game challenge. These range from tightrope races to cake-decoration contests, all making use of the wacky motion-sensing charm of the Wii.

If you tire of the relentless dice rolling, you can always just tackle the mini-games in a separate mode, or face the computer in Star Battle Arena. There's an Extras Zone and Fun Bazaar to explore, too.

The most recent Mario Party game to appear was a rather dismal GameCube affair. We've got our fingers crossed that the Wiimote can inject a lively dose of fun into the mix.

Head over to the Mario Party 8 gallery to get a closer look.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

Read more articles from Robert by visiting the Robert Purchese archive page.

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Comments (24) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • lennon #1 5 years ago

    Wheres Super Paper Mario!

  • kissthestick #2 5 years ago

    MP8 already?

    dizaaam

  • souljacker2000 #3 5 years ago

    blames footwear

    XD

  • asphaltcowboy #4 5 years ago

    NoE can't even get a Mario Party game out on time?! :/

  • Steroyd #5 5 years ago

    NoE can't even get a mini-game compilation out on time?! :/

    Fixed

  • Darren #6 5 years ago

    As a Wii owner, I'm sick and fed up of waiting months and months for key Nintendo releases that have been out elsewhere for ages. I've been pre-ordering games then cancelling them as they suffer delay after delay and using the money to buy games on other formats like the 360, PS3, PS2 and PC instead. I think I've cancelled about five or six Wii games from Gameplay.com in total as I originally wanted them but found my interest in them waning during the prolonged wait. Currently I'm debating whether to cancel Trauma Center Second Opinion, a game I pre-ordered SEVEN months ago and which has been out in the US since last December and we still won't get it until late July at the earliest... and I'm betting that too is delayed again. It's just not good enough and I wish Nintendo would get their bloody act together and release games within a short time frame of the US and Japan instead of making us Europeans wait what seems like forever for games...

  • Beano #7 5 years ago

    @Darren: I agree completely - I belive the Wii is my last Nintendo console. Tired of the same shit every time and Nintendo's empty promises for Europe.

  • chupachups #8 5 years ago

    Droughts when a console launches are understandable, but Europeans getting games months (or years) later is completely ridiculous. Nintendo is particularly bad in this regard.

    Yeah yeah yeah localisation etc, but for most European countries that explanation makes no sense. European localisation usually only covers English, Spanish, German, French and Italian, which means most European languages never ever get their own version.

    If (for example) Sweden never gets a Swedish version of a game, why shouldn't they get the US version straight away? The odds are that they'd choose the English language option anyway, so why shouldn't they get the English language version at the same time as the Yanks?

    And as for the UK and Ireland, it's absolutely ludicrous that we can't get the American version at the same time as the Americans. Often when the Euro English version does appear, it is just a very very delayed release of the American version, with things like "color", "dollars", American voice actors etc.

    It's understandable if countries like France and Germany have to wait due to language laws, but why should the rest of us wait?
    Edited by 4 at 20/06/07 @ 11:24

  • knocker #9 5 years ago

    Apparently the BBFC won't allow this to be released until the "Peach's soggy biscuit" and "Daisy's Bukkake" mini games are removed.

  • ryohazuki1983 #10 5 years ago

    its european law,....wish they made the Wii region free.
    Edited by 1 at 20/06/07 @ 11:37

  • jonsaan #11 5 years ago

    @knocker

    They say you learn something new every day. After a trip to Urban Dictionary.....

    :)

  • jonsaan #12 5 years ago

    My Wii is my current Ninty console. I'll just play my other consoles and wait till the great games appear on the Wii. There's no point in getting upset about it. Nintendo have always been the same. Yet we all make their console number one. Head scratchingly bizarre really.

  • chupachups #13 5 years ago

    "its european law"

    It's not though, the only laws that cover this are national ones. France and Germany have laws restricting how much non-native language films and games can be released there, so they have to get versions in their own languages, but the UK doesn't have those laws and neither do most countries in Europe.

  • SBfistfun #14 5 years ago

    Ooh a mini game base wii title, sounds different....

    ...oh

  • SBfistfun #15 5 years ago

    Baggsy last on soggy biscuit!

  • Sid-Nice #16 5 years ago

    @Darren could you enlighten me on the 5 or 6 games that you pre-ordered and then cancelled? Super Paper Mario and Trauma Center are the only worthwhile titles still to be released in Europe IMO.

    Do you hear the Xbox 360 fans crying over Blue Dragon?

    Nintendo’s European Wii software support is much better than any previous Nintendo console’s software support. If games have to be multi-regional then why can’t they work on translating the language from day 1?

  • JonFE #17 5 years ago

    Weird... Apparently my pre-order seems to have been dispatched earlier today... Is that affecting UK only (I'm located in Greece)?

  • Darren #18 5 years ago

    @Sid Nice... I had Eledees, Excite Truck, Mario Party 8, Mario Strikers Charged and a few others pre-ordered and have since changed my mind about getting them due to various delays, etc., etc.

    As for the delay in getting Blue Dragon on the 360, that is ONE game compared with all the others we 360 owners get within weeks of a game being released Stateside whereas on the Wii, almost every single decent release since launch has been subject to loooooooooooong delays. Where's Super Paper Mario? Where's Trauma Centre: Second Opinion? Eh?

  • woodnotes #19 5 years ago

    It's understandable that they want a no 1, and need to wait for Forza 2 sales to die down first.

  • Royal Fool #20 5 years ago

    Nintendo Europe keep on digging their grave.

  • smelly #21 5 years ago

    The delay is uk only.

    (Presume somehting to do with bbfc)

  • smelly #22 5 years ago

    "I'm sick and fed up of waiting months and months for key Nintendo releases"


    Come of it.. you're SERIOUSLY waiting for this game? it's supposed to be average to say the least.

    Europe has mercury and strikers way before the states (which are both the best games on the wii at the moment)

    uk gamers whinge something cronic.

  • Sid-Nice #23 5 years ago

    @Darren, I can understand why you cancelled your pre-order for Mario strikers Charged; it must have been the shock that the game wasn't delayed and was released on the 25th of May in Europe opposed to 30th of July in the US and the 31 of December in Japan.

    I think that you like to pre-order games only to cancel the order before your credit card is charged. :)

  • JonFE #24 5 years ago

    Definitely UK delay only, as it was delivered early this morning...