A beta title screen, demo, and three unused minigames!
Mario Party 8 Beta Video
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I can't believe you found this!!!!
Looks fairly strange.
I have no idea on the bull riding minigame.
Looks fairly strange.
I have no idea on the bull riding minigame.
I think if the title screen had a background it would've been way better than the one that they ended up choosing. t's weird seeing mini-games go through beta testing as they aren't worked on very thoroughly compared to when the end result is shown, such as "TOAD (one second later) WON!". I have no idea what the controls were for the games but they look as though they may've been good.
Good title screen.The mini games look strange hinting each other with a hammer,rolling up a carpet and bull
riding.
riding.
I've seen them before once, when Dark Boo showed me a link. Those mini-games would have been fun to play, though. Shame they never made the cut.
Mini-games look kind-of interesting...
I wonder how they would have turned out...
1st one looks kind-of boring, though...
I wonder how they would have turned out...
1st one looks kind-of boring, though...
The sand castle was a good idea. Maybe they could have related it to Mario Sunshine. Too bad it was removed. The minigame could have had a better concept too. It most likely would have been hit everyone until your the last one standing and we already have plenty of those.
Toadette's the winner!
Aw, how I missed that. :3
Aw, how I missed that. :3
Toadette thinks that the green bow looks better than all of the other colors. Though, she would prefer pink. :3
Anyways, that's cool! The beta title screen looks a lot better than the official one, lol. Some of those minigames are cool, too.
Anyways, that's cool! The beta title screen looks a lot better than the official one, lol. Some of those minigames are cool, too.
Wish that the bow minigame was real.
I wonder why the first two games were removed. They look like really fun mini-games to play.
Control and gameplay wise, I think the first minigame would have been similar to that mario party 1 1 vs 3 minigame where the 3 are knocking the money out of the 1 in a bowser suit, except 4 players. Second looks like a simple button mashing game, and the 3rd, I have no idea 
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.in the second you turn it clockwise.Gogogogreg said:Control and gameplay wise, I think the first minigame would have been similar to that mario party 1 1 vs 3 minigame where the 3 are knocking the money out of the 1 in a bowser suit, except 4 players. Second looks like a simple button mashing game, and the 3rd, I have no idea
The beta mini-games do look interesting, but at the same time they are relatively bland.
The hammer one had no gimmicks to it, seems a little simple for it to work out, if anything it is identical to Twist 'n' Out, except for the fact that players have a life bar and you aren't trying to knock each other out of the ring. Because of that, it looks like it was scrapped pretty early in the process.
The bow one looks too simple, and if you use the wiimote to rotate it an roll it up, then it is exactly the same as Crank to Rank, which was also in MP8. Would be pointless to add in, but it does look more aesthetically pleasing (even in its beta stages).
The bull riding one just looked, odd to say the least. I don't know how to describe it, for one the controls aren't explicitly stated, so I can't judge based on that. It seemed to be scrapped due to being overly/pointlessly complex.
And on a final note, the original title screen did look nicer as it showed everyone's 3D models. :U
But obviously was merely a placeholder, still think they could have done better with the whole 3D models thing.
The hammer one had no gimmicks to it, seems a little simple for it to work out, if anything it is identical to Twist 'n' Out, except for the fact that players have a life bar and you aren't trying to knock each other out of the ring. Because of that, it looks like it was scrapped pretty early in the process.
The bow one looks too simple, and if you use the wiimote to rotate it an roll it up, then it is exactly the same as Crank to Rank, which was also in MP8. Would be pointless to add in, but it does look more aesthetically pleasing (even in its beta stages).
The bull riding one just looked, odd to say the least. I don't know how to describe it, for one the controls aren't explicitly stated, so I can't judge based on that. It seemed to be scrapped due to being overly/pointlessly complex.
And on a final note, the original title screen did look nicer as it showed everyone's 3D models. :U
But obviously was merely a placeholder, still think they could have done better with the whole 3D models thing.
It's funny that these Minigames look good. The bull riding game is actually in Thrillville Off the Rails though. I have no idea what the first minigame was though.
I was looking at the original SMPS from a long time ago. Apparently SZ played that demo.
it's odd how so much can change.
I played this demo? No, I never played it until I made this video.Jett said:
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