The Beat Goes On

The Beat Goes On
Mario Party 3 Mario Party: The Top 100
Appears in	Mario Party 3 Mario Party: The Top 100
Type	4-Player minigame
Music track	Bang Out a Drum
Music sample Mario Party 3: Mario Party: The Top 100:

The Beat Goes On is a 4-Player minigame found in Mario Party 3 and Mario Party: The Top 100. Its name may be a reference to Sonny Bono and Cher's song of the same name.

Gameplay

Artwork of Donkey Kong playing the drums from the minigame

The minigame takes place in a nighttime jungle lake and starts with a Spear Guy playing four drum beats (two in Mario Party: The Top 100). Players on their lily pads take turns copying the beat the Spear Guy made, while beating another drum of their choice after copying the beat, with the next player having to replicate the beat as well as the added drum and then adding another. If a player plays an incorrect drum or does not play a drum in time, several Dancing Spear Guys throw torches at them, eliminating them. The last player remaining wins. In Mario Party 3, if a total of 16 drum beats is played and there are two or more players remaining, the minigame ends in a draw.

Ending

The ending to The Beat Goes On in Mario Party 3

In Mario Party 3, if the other players are burned, the winning player's lily pad returns to the starting point, and the player does their victory pose. If all drum beats are played, the remaining players do losing poses while their lily pads move.

Controls

Mario Party 3

• – Play drum

Mario Party: The Top 100

• //: Bang drum

In-game text

Mario Party 3

• Game Rules – "Remember the order in which the drums are played, then add the drum of your choice at the end."
• Advice – "If your drum timing is off, you'll lose. So keep the beat!"

Mario Party: The Top 100

• Description – "Remember the beats the last drummer played and play the same ones, plus one of your choice!"
• On-screen – "Bang along with the guide, then add your own button!"

Gallery

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See also

• Steal the Beat

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	たたいてドラム[?] Tataite doramu	Hit the Drum
Dutch	Doordrummen[?]	Keep on drumming
French	Chauffe Marcel![?]	Derived from a quote from a sketch by French comedians Dupont and Pondu from the early 1960s, where a man tries to seduce a woman while his friend plays the accordion; every time the music stops, this man tells his friend Marcel to "heat up" (chauffe), like an excited audience in a jazz club would. This catchphrase was later made even more famous by Belgian singer Jacques Brel to his accordionist Marcel Azzola telling him to play faster in a famous recording of his French song "Vesoul".
German	Busch-Bongo[?]	Bongo in the Bushes
Italian	Ritmi tribali[?]	Tribal rhythms
Spanish (NOA)	Dale al bongó[?]	Hit the bongo	Mario Party: The Top 100
Spanish (NOE)	Dale al Tam-Tam[?]	Hit the Djembe	Mario Party 3
	Dale al tam-tam[?]	Hit the djembe	Mario Party: The Top 100

Trivia

• This is one of the two Mario Party 3 minigames that appear in Mario Party: The Top 100 but do not appear in Mario Party Superstars, the other being Three Door Monty.