Ring Leader

Ring Leader
Appears in	Mario Party 9
Type	Free-for-All minigame
Music track	Island Activities
Music sample

Ring Leader is a Free-for-All minigame featured in Mario Party 9. Its name is a pun on "ringleader," which is a term for a person who leads others, especially in opposition to authority.

Introduction

Mario and friends riding on the Dolphins in the introduction to Ring Leader

The camera does a close-up shot of the players as they jump, and then again as they approach the starting line.

Gameplay

Players try to earn points by jumping their Dolphins through hoops. Red hoops can be reached with a simple thrust of the Wii Remote, but gold hoops require the players to dive (by holding ) so that they can do a higher jump. Occasionally, there are several consecutive hoops, which require good timing to get through all of them. The player with the highest score at the end of the course wins. The highest possible score is 40 points.

This minigame also appears in Perspective Mode, where the camera is positioned behind the player and zoomed in.

Ending

After crossing the goal, the Dolphins jump randomly.

In-game text

• Rules – "Jump your Dolphin through the floating rings. Red rings are worth one point, and the higher gold rings are worth three points."
• Controls – "Hold the Wii Remote vertically. Swing the Wii Remote upward to make your Dolphin jump. Hold to dive, and then swing the Wii Remote upward to perform a high jump."

Gallery

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  Perspective Mode version

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	リフトンライド[?] Rifutonraido	Lifton-ride
Chinese	便車海豚騎乘賽[?] Biàn chē hǎitún qí chéng sài	Dolphin-Hitchhiking Race
French	Hue, Dauphin ![?]	Gee, Dolphin!
German	Ringelrein[?]	Into the ring, pun on Ringelreihen ("Ring Around the Rosie")
Italian	Delfì acrobatici[?]	Acrobatic Dolphins
Spanish	La carrera delfinitiva[?]	The 'Dolphinitive' Race; delfinitiva is a pun on delfin ("dolphin") and definitiva ("definitive").