Bobbing Bow-loons

Bobbing Bow-loons
Appears in	Mario Party 3 Mario Party Superstars
Type	Item minigame
Time limit	10 seconds
Music track	Item Mini-Game
Music sample Mario Party 3: Mario Party Superstars:

Bobbing Bow-loons is an Item minigame in Mario Party 3 and Mario Party Superstars.

Overview

Gameplay from Mario Party Superstars

The minigame opens with the player loading an arrow on to their bow.

The player floats from a balloon in the sky, to the right of the balloons (later moved to the left in Mario Party Superstars). They have ten seconds to shoot an arrow at one of the balloons, each moving up and down at different speeds. If the arrow pops a balloon, the player wins the contained item. If the player misses, the arrow bounces off of the stone tower on the opposite side and pops the player's balloon, and Baby Bowser (replaced by Bowser Jr. in Mario Party Superstars) taunts the player from a window in one of the three stone towers. If time runs out, the arrow launches automatically, except every balloon disappears, though they can shoot additional arrows, to no effect.

Controls

Mario Party 3

• – Shoot arrow

Mario Party Superstars

• – Shoot arrow

In-game text

Mario Party 3

• Rules – "Time your arrow to shoot down an item."
• Advice – "Watch how the balloons move, then release your arrow carefully."

Mario Party Superstars

• In-game description
  • English:
    Pop a balloon!

Gallery

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  Mario gets an item in Mario Party 3.

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  Mario gets nothing in Mario Party 3.

Naming

"Bow-loons" is a play on "balloons." The minigame is untitled in Mario Party Superstars.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ねらってバルーン[?] Neratte barūn	Aim the Balloon
French	Ballons Bouffons[?]	Balloons Buffoons
German	Ballon und Bogen[?]	Balloon and Bow
Spanish	Globos Objeto[?]	Item Balloons