History VideoGame / MarioParty4

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* AlliterativeName: The minigames Mario Medley, Paratrooper Plunge, Three Throw, Photo Finish, Bob-omb Breakers, Team Treasure Trek, Dungeon Duos, Bowser's Bigger Blast, Butterfly Blitz, Bowser Bop, Kareening Koopas, Panel Panic, Jigsaw Jitters, Barrel Baron, and Mushroom Medic. There's also the board Goomba's Greedy Gala.

* RhymingNames: The minigames Slime Time, The Great Deflate, Cheep Cheep Sweep, and Trace Race.

* AlliterativeName: The minigames Mario Medley, Paratrooper Plunge, Three Throw, Bob-omb Breakers, Team Treasure Trek, Dungeon Duos, Bowser's Bigger Blast, Butterfly Blitz, Bowser Bop, Kareening Koopas, Panel Panic, Jigsaw Jitters, Barrel Baron, and Mushroom Medic. There's also the board Goomba's Greedy Gala.

* AlliterativeName: Mario Medley, Paratrooper Plunge, Three Throw, Bob-omb Breakers, Team Treasure Trek, Dungeon Duos, Bowser's Bigger Blast, Butterfly Blitz, Bowser Bop, Kareening Koopas, Panel Panic, Jigsaw Jitters, Barrel Baron, and Mushroom Medic.
** One of the boards is called Goomba's Greedy Gala.

* AlliterativeName:
** Many of the minigames follow this naming convention, such as Three Throw, Butterfly Blitz, Team Treasure Trek, Dungeon Duos, etc.

''Mario Party 4'' is a video game developed by Creator/HudsonSoft and published by Creator/{{Nintendo}} for the UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube in 2002. It's the fourth installment in the ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' series and, unlike its three predecessors on the UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 (which were released in Japan the year before it did overseas), the first to be released stateside ''before'' its home country.

* AmusementPark: Toad's Midway Madness. It was built by Toad (its host) because he loves amusement parks and wants to share that love with his friends as well as visitors. There's an orange-colored coaster track that passes through the middle parts of the board's layout; at first it looks like mere decoration but, when a player steps on one of its Event Spaces, a rocket kart will begin moving through the track and chase all players across that part of the board. However, it's also possible to voluntarily ride the kart (which gives them the chance to gather coins). Another feature is the spinning tea cup rides that take a player to a specific path indicated by an arrow at their central top (the arrow's direction changes every time a character uses the rides or lands onto a nearby Event Space).

** Being the first of its given console, some of this game's environments are more realistically rendered compared to later entires going for cartoonier style that would fit closer to the rest of the franchise. Ironically, ''VideoGame/MarioParty8'' would also fall into a similar pitfall before changing things up for the sequel.

* BalloonOfDoom: One of Bowser's minigames is aptly called "Balloon of Doom", and has him force the players to take turns pumping a balloon that has his insignia on it by [[GroundPound Ground Pounding]] a pump. Whoever is unlucky to pop the balloon loses the minigame and suffers one of Bowser's punishments afterwards (whether by stealing their coins, stars, or items) while the other players get off scot-free.