Ground Pound Down

Ground Pound Down
Appears in	Mario Party 5
Type	4-Player minigame
Initial record	41.6 seconds (Decathlon)
Music track	Move Happily
Music sample

Ground Pound Down is a 4-Player minigame in Mario Party 5.

Overview

Peach winning the minigame

Players choose from three columns of blocks to ground-pound at the start of each area while making their way to the water at the bottom first. In Mini-Game Decathlon, where it is the first minigame, the player tries to complete the minigame as quickly as they can, earning up to 1,000 points in the process. Regular blocks require one Ground Pound to destroy, more can be broken at once at the peak of the player's jump; this does not work on rock blocks, which always require three hits to destroy. As players go deeper, the rocks darken gradually, though this does not affect gameplay, and the last few are always rock blocks. The first player to make it to the end wins, but if they do not accomplish this on time, it is a draw.

In the ending, the winning player is launched out of a pipe by a jet of water, waving atop it. In the event of a draw, every player does their loss animation.

Controls

• – Move
• – Jump
• → – Ground Pound

In-game text

• Rules – "Do Ground Pounds to break the blocks and move down. Whoever gets to the water first wins."
• Advice 1 – "Time it so that you do a Ground Pound from the top of your jump to break more soil blocks."
• Advice 2 – "But no matter what, you must Ground Pound the rock blocks three times to break them."

Gallery

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  Mini-Game Decathlon icon

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ヒップでＧＯＧＯＧＯ！[?] Hippu de Gō Gō Gō!	Go Go Go! Hip, from ヒップドロップ (Hip Drop), the Japanese name for Ground Pound
French	Casse les Blocs![?]	Break the Blocks!
German	Stampf-Graben[?]	Stomp Trench
Italian	La trivella[?]	The drill
Spanish	El atasco[?]	The Blockage