Ground Pound (minigame)

Ground Pound
Appears in	Mario Party
Type	1-Player minigame
Time limit	30 seconds
Music track	Can It be Done?
Music sample

Ground Pound is a 1-Player minigame in Mario Party.

Overview

The player observes the pegs before the butterflies cover the top of them, but some are not covered completely. In gameplay, the player tries to hip-drop every peg with a flat top, but if they do so on one with a pointed top, it stuns them briefly.

The minigame costs 50 Coins to buy at the Mini-Game House.

Controls

• – Move
• – Jump
• + – Hip Drop

In-game text

• Game Rules – "Hip Drop onto the flat-topped posts. Try to remember which are flat and which are pointy before the butterflies land."
• Game Rules (Mini-Game Island) – "Pound the flat-topped posts with Hip Drops. Clear the game by pounding all the flat-topped posts."
• Advice – "Watch carefully. Look beneath the butterflies, and you'll see parts of the posts."

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ひっこめヒップドロップ[?] Hikkome hippudoroppu	Hip-drop Retracting
French	Pilonna-jeu	Pounded game (also a pun on papillon ("butterfly")
German	Boden-Rammen[?]	Ground-Ramming
Italian	Ground Pound	-

Notes

• The minigame descriptions in Mario Party and Mario Party 2 use the phrase "Hip Drop" despite the minigame title, whereas the move would not be called "Ground Pound" until Mario Party 3 onward.
• When the minigame is played by a CPU character of any difficulty, they always hip-drop an incorrect peg for every correct one.