Slot-Car Derby
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| Appears in | Mario Party Mario Party 2 Mario Party: The Top 100 Mario Party Superstars | ||
| Type | 4-Player minigame | ||
| Initial record | 2'00"00 (both courses, Mario Party) 40"00 (course 1, Mario Party 2) 50"00 (course 2, Mario Party 2) 1'00"00 (course 3, Mario Party 2) 1'00"00 (Mario Party: The Top 100) 1'00"00 (course 1, Mario Party Superstars) 1'30"00 (course 2, Mario Party Superstars) 2'00"00 (course 3, Mario Party Superstars) | ||
| Music track | Faster than All (Mario Party) The Blue Skies Yonder (Mario Party 2, Mario Party: The Top 100, and Mario Party Superstars) | ||
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Slot-Car Derby is a 4-Player minigame in Mario Party, Mario Party 2, Mario Party: The Top 100, and Mario Party Superstars. It is formatted as Slot Car Derby in every appearance except Mario Party Superstars.
Overview[edit]
This section is a stub. Please consider expanding it to include any missing information. Specifics: Time limit in Top 100
Players race around a track for four laps while riding slot cars. However, driving too fast around corners causes them to spin out, while holding the Control Stick or Circle Pad when the announcer says "Go!" results in a few-second penalty. Any player passed by an opponent a lap ahead gets rammed into and removed from the minigame. The first player to meet the objective wins, but if none of the players have completed four laps within two minutes in Mario Party, five minutes in Mario Party 2, or three minutes in Mario Party Superstars, it is a draw.
Mario Party features two tracks, individually selectable as Slot Car Derby 1 and Slot Car Derby 2 in the Mini-Game House, with the former being shorter and having less turns. Slot Car Derby 1 and Slot Car Derby 2 cost 450 and 500 coins to buy at the Mini-Game House, respectively. Mini-Game Island features the second track as the goal, where Toad is an opponent.
Three tracks appear in Mario Party 2, with each having the respective shapes of a bean, a "C," and a clover leaf, as well as representing the respective Easy, Normal, and Hard difficulties in Mini-Game Coaster. The whole minigame costs 150 coins to buy from Woody. The bean track appears in Mario Party: The Top 100 (also the fifth and final minigame of the Half Decathlon), as do all three tracks in Mario Party Superstars.
Controls[edit]
Mario Party / Mario Party 2[edit]
- Tilt
– Speed up - Release – Slow down
Mario Party: The Top 100[edit]
- Slide
: Speed up - Release : Slow down
Mario Party Superstars[edit]
- Tilt
to speed up
In-game text[edit]
Mario Party[edit]
- Game Rules (Course 1) – "Push lightly, and drive your Slot Car to the finish line. If you go too fast, you'll spin out in the corners."
- Game Rules (Course 2) – "Push lightly, and drive your Slot Car to the finish line. If you go too fast you'll spin out."
- Game Rules (Mini-Game Island) – "Push lightly and race your car around the track. Clear the game by winning the race."
- Advice – "Smoking tires is[sic] a sure sign of going too fast. If you don't slow down, you'll definitely spin out."
Mario Party 2[edit]
- Game Rules – "The first one to complete 4 laps in the Slot Car Derby wins! Don't spin out by speeding around curves!"
- Game Rules (Mini-Game Coaster) – "It's a 4-lap Slot Car Derby! Be the first to cross the finish line to clear the game."
- Advice – "Tilt your as far as you can on straightaways for max speed!"
Mario Party: The Top 100[edit]
- Description – "Take a slot car out for 4 laps! Going too fast around the curves will make you spin out."
- On-screen – "Do 4 laps as fast as you can!"
Mario Party Superstars[edit]
- "Drive four laps, but watch your speed. Going too fast around the curves will make you spin out, so be careful!"
Gallery[edit]
The introduction to the first course in Mario Party
An early screenshot featuring a Marioro sponsor
Mario Party (track 2)
Mario Party 2 (track 1)
Mario Party 2 (track 2)
Mario Party 2 (track 3)
Mario Party: The Top 100
Mario Party Superstars (track 2)
Mario Party Superstars (track 3)
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | スロットルレーシング[?] Surottoru Rēshingu |
Throttle Racing | "surottoru" is also a pun on "slot" |
| Chinese (simplified) | 油门竞赛[?] yóumén jìngsài |
Throttle Racing | |
| Chinese (traditional) | 油門競賽[?] yóumén jìngsài |
Throttle Racing | |
| Dutch | Racebaan[?] | Racetrack | |
| French | Course guidée[?] | Guided race | Mario Party, The Top 100, and Superstars |
| Course Kaboum[?] | Kaboom Race | Mario Party 2 | |
| German | Rennbahn[?] | Racetrack | |
| Italian | Slot Car Derby[1] | - | Mario Party |
| Derby Auto[?] | Car Derby | Mario Party 2 and The Top 100 | |
| Macchinine[?] | Toy Cars | Mario Party Superstars | |
| Korean | 트랙 위의 질주[?] Teuraek Wi-ui Jilju |
Race on Track | |
| Portuguese | Acelerama[?] | From acelerar (to accelerate) and autorama ("Slot Car") | |
| Russian | Слот-гонки[?] Slot-gonki |
Slot Race | |
| Spanish (NOA) | Derbi de bólidos[?] | Car Derby | |
| Spanish (NOE) | Derbi de Coches[?] | Car Derby |
Notes[edit]
- Mario Star and Nintendo signs appear on the side of the track in the Mario Party version, in a manner akin to Mario Kart 64.
- In the Superstars version of the minigame, most of the playable characters use the voice clips for when they are ready as their karts are dropped on the track. The exception is Luigi, who uses his voice clips for when he gets hurt instead.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ 1999. Mario Party instruction manual. Nintendo of Europe (Italian). Page 141.
| Minigames from Mario Party | |
|---|---|
| 4-Player minigames | Balloon Burst • Bombs Away • Box Mountain Mayhem • Bumper Balls • Buried Treasure • Cast Aways • Coin Block Blitz • Crazy Cutter • Face Lift • Grab Bag • Hammer Drop • Hot Bob-omb • Hot Rope Jump • Key-pa-Way • Mario Bandstand • Mushroom Mix-Up • Musical Mushroom • Platform Peril • Running of the Bulb • Shy Guy Says • Skateboard Scamper • Slot Car Derby • Tipsy Tourney • Treasure Divers |
| 1-vs-3 minigames | Bash 'n' Cash • Bowl Over • Coin Block Bash • Coin Shower Flower • Crane Game • Paddle Battle • Pipe Maze • Piranha's Pursuit • Tightrope Treachery • Tug o' War |
| 2-vs-2 minigames | Bobsled Run • Bombsketball • Deep Sea Divers • Desert Dash • Handcar Havoc |
| 1-Player minigames | Bumper Ball Maze • Ghost Guess • Ground Pound • Knock Block Tower • Limbo Dance • Memory Match • Pedal Power • Shell Game • Slot Machine • Teetering Towers • Whack-a-Plant |
