After eight entries on home consoles and two on handhelds, the ex-Hudson staffers then joined Nd Cube, where they developed Wii Party, [1] then restarted production of the Mario Party series, with the new development studio's first installment, Mario Party 9, releasing on the Wii in 2012.

Mario Party[a] is a series of party video games created by Hudson Soft and owned by Nintendo. It features characters from the Mario franchise in which up to four local players or computer-controlled characters (called "CPUs") compete in a board game interspersed with minigames.

Mario Party 8 is a game for the Wii. It is the eighth mainline installment of the Mario Party series and the thirteenth overall. It is the last Mario Party home console game to be developed by Hudson Soft before Nintendo Cube received control of the series.

One to four players can play Mario Party 8 for Wii, each with a Wii Remote. A more engaging view of the action puts the player on the board with his traveling character, no longer far above the whole board looking down.

Mar 2, 2012 · Mario Party 9 includes 80 brand new minigames, accessible to all Mario fans and which will find players making pizzas, escaping haunted mansions, and even racing snowmobiles.

Mario Party 9 was the second and last game in the series released for the Wii, and was followed by Mario Party: Island Tour for the Nintendo 3DS in 2013, and Mario Party 10 for the Wii U in 2015. It was also one of the last official first-party Wii games released in North America, followed by Project Zero 2: Wii Edition and Kirby's Dream ...

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 battles crash the party and challenge players to compete to defeat a …