Shell Stack

Shell Stack
Appears in	Mario Party Advance
Type	Single-player mini-game
Time limit	60 seconds (Shroom City) 30 seconds (Mini-Game Attack)
Music track	Slowly Yet Surely
Music sample

Shell Stack is a single-player minigame found in Mario Party Advance.

Gameplay

The player simply has to jump on the stack of shells as moving pipes shoot more on top. As the player jumps on more shells consecutively, they fly across the screen quicker. The color of the pipe and shell determines the shell's speed. Green Shells are the slowest, followed by yellow and then orange, with red being the fastest. If the player misses or gets hit by a shell, the game ends.

In the Shroom City mode, the player must stack ten shells in 60 seconds to win. In Mini-Game Attack, the player has only 30 seconds to stack ten shells. In these versions, being hit by a shell or missing a shell only temporarily stuns the player for about three seconds.

Controls

• – Jump

In-game text

Leap up and jump on the shells that come firing out of the pipes.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	のりのりコウラ[?] Nori nori kōra	Energetic Shells
French	Carapéchelle[?]	Portmanteau of carapace ("shell") and échelle ("ladder")
German	Panzerpulk[?]	Shell Stack
Italian	Sui gusci[?]	On the shells
Spanish	Piloncha[?]	Portmanteau of pila ("stack") and concha ("shell")

Trivia

Early Shell Stack

• In the pre-release version of this minigame, the pipes were originally Bill Blasters. Additionally, the player character faced the blasters instead of at the front of the screen.