When did Mario Party 6 come out?

Mario Party 6 was released on 18 November 2004 for Nintendo GameCube.

Mario Party 6 (2004) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Mario Party 6

Mario Party 6 offers a new batch of games that require both your fingers and your voice. In this installment in the Mario Party series, you can use the included microphone controller to talk your way to…

40 18 November 2004

What Mario Party 6 is

Mario Party 6 is a card & board game game developed by Hudson Soft and released in 2004. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mario Party 6 offers a new batch of games that require both your fingers and your voice. In this installment in the Mario Party series, you can use the included microphone controller to talk your way to victory. More than 80 minigames are included. You can play as Mario, Bowser, or other characters from the Mushroom Kingdom. New characters appear on the board depending on what time of day it is. The game supports up to four players.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and party. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Mario Bros. series

Mario Party 6 is the 37th of 66 entries we hold in the Mario Bros. series. The next entry was WarioWare: Touched! in 2004. Its critic score of 40 is 34 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.

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How it was received

Mario Party 6 holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 303 rated card & board game games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 30 points below the year average. Players rate it 51, 11 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Mario Party 6 launched on 18 November 2004, within three weeks of Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords and World of Warcraft. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords, World of Warcraft.

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