Booksquirm

Booksquirm
Mario Party 4 Mario Party: The Top 100 Mario Party Superstars
Appears in	Mario Party 4 Mario Party: The Top 100 Mario Party Superstars
Type	4-Player minigame
Controls	/ / – Move
Initial record	5 (Mario Party Superstars)
Music track	Loud and Sweet
Music sample Mario Party 4: Mario Party: The Top 100: Mario Party Superstars:

Booksquirm is a 4-Player minigame in Mario Party 4, Mario Party: The Top 100, and Mario Party Superstars. The minigame's name is a pun on the word "bookworm," a term used to describe a person who reads a lot of books.

Introduction

A book is shown opening, then the four players land onto the page. The words in the book are arranged in incomprehensible structures, comparable to lorem ipsum text.

Gameplay

Pages of the book begin to turn (fall), so the players must find holes in the pages to avoid being flattened. Players can share a hole. As time goes on, the pages turn much faster, and the number of holes in each page decreases. This process continues until one character is left standing. In Mario Party 4, if the remaining players get flattened at the same time, the game is a draw; in The Top 100 and Superstars, this is the case only if all four players are flattened simultaneously.

Challenge Booksquirm

In Mario Party 4, there is also an unlockable version of Booksquirm, called Challenge Booksquirm, which can be earned by playing the original Booksquirm in a party, and can then be selected in the Extra Room. It challenges the player to see how many pages they can last until their character is squashed. If the player manages to surpass 15 pages, a Goomba plate is placed in the minigame Present Room. Challenge Booksquirm also ends after any player manages to pass through 99 pages.

In Mario Party: The Top 100 and Mario Party Superstars, a falling sound plays each time the pages turn. Also, the players make disappointed noises when flattened.

In Mario Party Superstars, an "Endless" mode, which follows the rules of Challenge Booksquirm, can be accessed from Free Play. It is not truly endless, as the game ends after the player reaches 999 pages.

Ending

The ending to Booksquirm

In Mario Party 4 and Mario Party Superstars, the camera zooms in on the winning character, who does their victory pose. If no players remain, nothing happens.

In-game text

Mario Party 4

• Game Rules – "Avoid getting flattened by the pages! Find a hole in the falling page and position yourself so you fit through to the next page!"
• Advice – "Look for shadows in the falling page to find the passage to the next page."

Mario Party: The Top 100

• Description – "Stand under the holes in the falling pages so you don't get flattened!"
• On-screen – "Don't let the pages flatten you!"

Mario Party Superstars

• "Stand under the holes in the falling pages so you don't get flattened!"

Names in other languages

Booksquirm

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ぱらぱらブック[?] Parapara bukku	Pattering Book
Chinese (simplified)	洞洞书[?] Dòng Dòng Shū	Perforated Book
Chinese (traditional)	洞洞書[?] Dòng Dòng Shū	Perforated Book
Dutch	Boekenwurm[?]	Bookworm
French	Serre-Livre (Mario Party 4)[?]	Bookend
	Serre-Livre Extrême (Mario Party: The Top 100 and Superstars)[?]	Bookend Extreme
German	Druckerpresse[?]	Printing Press
Italian	Attenti al libro[?]	Watch out for/Beware of the book
Korean	책 속의 대소동[?] Chaek Sogeui Daesodong	Commotion in a Book
Portuguese	Escapágina[?]	Portmanteau of escapar (to escape) and página (page)
Russian	В переплете[?] V pereplyote	In the binder
Spanish (NOA)	Me libro del libro[?]	I escape from the book
Spanish (NOE)	El mamotreto[?]	The Huge Tome

Challenge Booksquirm

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	チャレンジぱらぱらブック[?] Charenji parapara bukku	Challenge Pattering Book
French	Serre-Livre Extrême[?]	Bookend Extreme
German	Druckerpresse Plus[?]	Printing Press Plus
Italian	Sfida col libro[?]	Book challenge
Spanish (NOE)	El pesado mamotreto[?]	The Annoying/Heavy Huge Tome

Trivia

• The cover of the book has the title PARAPARA BOOK, which is a romanization of the minigame's Japanese name. This is even the case in international releases of the game.