Clock Stoppers

Clock Stoppers
Appears in	Mario Party 5
Type	2-vs.-2 mini-game
Time limit	15 seconds per round
Music track	Move Happily
Music sample

Clock Stoppers is a 2-vs.-2 minigame found in Mario Party 5. The name is derived from the title of the 2002 film Clockstoppers.

Gameplay

The game's goal is to match the player's clock with the one in the middle a total of three times. The game begins with the smaller, middle clock showing a random time (for example, 3:45). Players must move both of their clock's hands to match the time. The idea is for one of the players to move the small hand while the other moves the big one. When a hand is in the correct position, it snaps into place. Whichever team matches its clock first gets a point. The first team to get three points wins.

As usual, the clock to the left is colored red, while the one to the right is colored blue. The one in the middle, considerably smaller, is colored green. All clocks feature yellow numbers. The setting looks like a kind of old brown town, in which the big cuckoo clocks are located on balconies.

Controls

• – Move
• – Jump

In-game text

• Rules – "Push the hands of the clock to match the clock in the middle. The first team to do this three times or the most times at the end wins."
• Advice – "Move one hand of the clock while your teammate moves the other."

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	クルクルどけい[?] Kurukuru dokei	Spinning Clock
French	Tic-tac Tactique[?]	Tick Tock Tactics
German	Zum Kuckuck-Uhr[?]	On the Cuckoo Clock
Italian	Sposta l'ora[?]	Move the time
Spanish	Sincronización[?]	Synchronisation

Trivia

• Characters who earn a point in this minigame perform their animations for winning a minigame or getting a star rather than their standard happy animation.

See also

• In the Nick of Time
• Twist Ending