Mario Party 3
Mario Party 3 is a party video game developed by Hudson Soft and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. The third installment in the Mario Party series, it was first released in Japan on December 7, 2000, in North America on May 7, 2001, in Australia on September 3, 2001, and in Europe on November 16, 2001. As with the previous installments, the player chooses between eight playable characters: Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Wario, and Donkey Kong from the first two games, alongside newcomers Princess Daisy and Waluigi. The game features duel maps, where two players try to lower each other's stamina to zero using non-player characters such as Chain Chomps.
| Mario Party 3 | |
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North American box art | |
| Developer(s) | Hudson Soft |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Kenji Kikuchi |
| Producer(s) | Shinji Hatano Shinichi Nakamoto |
| Designer(s) | Fumihisa Sato |
| Programmer(s) | Syunsuke Tanaka Kazuhiro Matsushita Masahide Tomita |
| Artist(s) | Keisuke Kasahara Kayo Fujimoto Hitoshi Takiyama Hisao Okada |
| Composer(s) | Ichiro Shimakura |
| Series | Mario Party |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo 64 |
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| Genre(s) | Party |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Mario Party 3 was the final Mario Party game for the Nintendo 64. It was followed by Mario Party 4 for the GameCube in 2002. Content from Mario Party 3 was remastered as part of Mario Party: The Top 100 for the Nintendo 3DS and Mario Party Superstars for the Nintendo Switch, released on November 10, 2017 and October 29, 2021 respectively. The game received its first official re-release on the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack on October 27, 2023.