Mario Party 9
Grab your friends and family and captain the crew to victory! The party is back and bigger than ever in the Mario Party 9 game for Wii, featuring all-new ways to play! For the first time in the franchise, boss…
Mario Party 9 is an adventure developed by NDCube, released 2 March 2012 on Wii.
What Mario Party 9 is
Mario Party 9 is an adventure game developed by NDCube and released in 2012. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Mario Party 9 is a 2012 party video game developed by NDcube and published by Nintendo for the Wii. The ninth main installment in the Mario Party series, it was announced at E3 2011 and released in Europe, North America, and Australia in March 2012, followed by Japan a month later. It was the first game in the series not to be developed by Hudson Soft, which was acquired and dissolved by Konami on March 1, 2012, the day before the game's European release. It was also the final Mario game to be released on the Wii and one of the last official first-party Wii games released in North America, followed by Project Zero 2: Wii Edition and Kirby's Dream Collection.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are party. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Mario Bros. series
Mario Party 9 is the 59th of 66 entries we hold in the Mario Bros. series. The next entry was Mario Tennis Open in 2012. Its critic score of 74 is almost exactly the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.
How it was received
Mario Party 9 holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 4 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 70, across 63 votes.
What it launched against
Mario Party 9 launched on 2 March 2012, within three weeks of Mass Effect 3, Journey, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward and Kid Icarus: Uprising. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Mass Effect 3, Journey, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward, Kid Icarus: Uprising.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Mario Party 9 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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