Mario Party 2

Mario Party 2
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Developer(s)	Hudson Soft
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Kenji Kikuchi
Producer(s)	Shinji Hatano Shinichi Nakamoto
Composer(s)	Hironao Yamamoto Shohei Bando Kazuhiko Sawaguchi
Series	Mario Party
Platform(s)	Nintendo 64
Release	JP: December 17, 1999 NA: January 24, 2000 PAL: October 13, 2000
Genre(s)	Party
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Mario Party 2^[a] is a 1999 party video game developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. The second game in the Mario Party series, it was released in Japan in December 1999 and worldwide in 2000.^[1] The game received mostly positive reviews, who praised the improvements they made to the original, the multiplayer and minigames, but criticized the lack of originality, while graphics received a better but otherwise mixed response.

Mario Party 2 features six playable characters: Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Wario, and Donkey Kong from the Mario series and the original Mario Party, who can be directed as characters on various themed game boards. The objective is to earn the most stars of all players on the board; stars are obtained by purchase from a single predefined space on the game board. Each character's movement is determined by a roll of a die, with a roll from each player forming a single turn. Each turn in Mario Party 2 is followed by a minigame, which is competed to earn coins for the character, used to buy items and stars.

Mario Party 2 was followed by Mario Party 3 in 2000 and was later re-released on the Wii Virtual Console in 2010, for the Wii U Virtual Console in North America in 2016, and on the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack in 2022. Content from Mario Party 2 was remastered as part of Mario Party: The Top 100 for the Nintendo 3DS, Mario Party Superstars and the upcoming Super Mario Party Jamboree for the Nintendo Switch.^[2][3][4]

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